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Indeed, it will be destroyed!</p><p class="poetry2">Kiriathaim will suffer disgrace. It will be captured!</p><p class="poetry2">Its fortress will suffer disgrace. It will be torn down!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>People will not praise Moab any more.</p><p class="poetry2">The enemy will capture Heshbon and plot how to destroy Moab,</p><p class="poetry2">saying, ‘Come, let’s put an end to that nation!’</p><p class="poetry2">City of Madmen, you will also be destroyed.</p><p class="poetry2">A destructive army will march against you.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim,</p><p class="poetry2">‘Oh, the ruin and great destruction!’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Moab will be crushed.</p><p class="poetry2">Her children will cry out in distress.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Indeed they will climb the slopes of Luhith,</p><p class="poetry2">weeping continually as they go.</p><p class="poetry2">For on the road down to Horonaim</p><p class="poetry2">they will hear the cries of distress over the destruction.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves!</p><p class="poetry2">Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Moab, you trust in the things you do and in your riches.</p><p class="poetry2">So you too will be conquered.</p><p class="poetry2">Your god Chemosh will go into exile</p><p class="poetry2">along with his priests and his officials.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The destroyer will come against every town.</p><p class="poetry2">Not one town will escape.</p><p class="poetry2">The towns in the valley will be destroyed.</p><p class="poetry2">The cities on the high plain will be laid waste.</p><p class="poetry2">I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, have spoken!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Set up a gravestone for Moab,</p><p class="poetry2">for it will certainly be laid in ruins!</p><p class="poetry2">Its cities will be laid waste</p><p class="poetry2">and become uninhabited.”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s work!</p><p class="poetry2">A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed.</p><p class="poetry2">It has never been taken into exile.</p><p class="poetry2">Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs,</p><p class="poetry2">never poured out from one jar to another.</p><p class="poetry2">They are like wine which tastes like it always did,</p><p class="poetry2">whose aroma has remained unchanged.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But the time is coming when I will send</p><p class="poetry2">men against Moab who will empty it out.</p><p class="poetry2">They will empty the towns of their people,</p><p class="poetry2">then will lay those towns in ruins.</p><p class="poetry2">I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, affirm it!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The people of Moab will be disappointed by their god Chemosh.</p><p class="poetry2">They will be as disappointed as the people of Israel were</p><p class="poetry2">when they put their trust in the calf god at Bethel.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How can you men of Moab say, ‘We are heroes,</p><p class="poetry2">men who are mighty in battle?’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Moab will be destroyed. Its towns will be invaded.</p><p class="poetry2">Its finest young men will be slaughtered.</p><p class="poetry2">I, the King, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> who rules over all, affirm it!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Moab’s destruction is at hand.</p><p class="poetry2">Disaster will come on it quickly.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Mourn for that nation, all you nations living around it,</p><p class="poetry2">all of you nations that know of its fame.</p><p class="poetry2">Mourn and say, ‘Alas, its powerful influence has been broken!</p><p class="poetry2">Its glory and power have been done away!’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Come down from your place of honor;</p><p class="poetry2">sit on the dry ground, you who live in Dibon.</p><p class="poetry2">For the one who will destroy Moab will attack you;</p><p class="poetry2">he will destroy your fortifications.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You who live in Aroer,</p><p class="poetry2">stand by the road and watch.</p><p class="poetry2">Question the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping.</p><p class="poetry2">Ask them, ‘What has happened?’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen!</p><p class="poetry2">Wail and cry out in mourning!</p><p class="poetry2">Announce along the Arnon River</p><p class="poetry2">that Moab has been destroyed.’</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain: on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>on Dibon, Nebo, and Beth Diblathaim, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>on Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>on Kerioth and Bozrah. It will come on all the towns of Moab, both far and near. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, affirm it!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Moab has vaunted itself against me.</p><p class="poetry2">So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath</p><p class="poetry2">until he splashes around in his own vomit,</p><p class="poetry2">until others treat him as a laughingstock.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel?</p><p class="poetry2">Did you think that they were nothing but thieves,</p><p class="poetry2">that you shook your head in contempt</p><p class="poetry2">every time you talked about them?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab.</p><p class="poetry2">Go and live in the cliffs.</p><p class="poetry2">Be like a dove that makes its nest</p><p class="poetry2">high on the sides of a ravine.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I have heard how proud the people of Moab are,</p><p class="poetry2">I know how haughty they are.</p><p class="poetry2">I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are,</p><p class="poetry2">what a high opinion they have of themselves.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, affirm that I know how arrogant they are.</p><p class="poetry2">But their pride is ill-founded.</p><p class="poetry2">Their boastings will prove to be false.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>So I will weep with sorrow for Moab.</p><p class="poetry2">I will cry out in sadness for all of Moab.</p><p class="poetry2">I will moan for the people of Kir Heres.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>I will weep for the grapevines of Sibmah</p><p class="poetry2">just like the town of Jazer weeps over them.</p><p class="poetry2">Their branches once spread as far as the Dead Sea.</p><p class="poetry2">They reached as far as the town of Jazer.</p><p class="poetry2">The destroyer will ravage</p><p class="poetry2">her fig, date, and grape crops.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Joy and gladness will disappear</p><p class="poetry2">from the fruitful land of Moab.</p><p class="poetry2">I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses.</p><p class="poetry2">No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy.</p><p class="poetry2">The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers,</p><p class="poetry2">not the shouts of those making wine.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Cries of anguish raised from Heshbon and Elealeh</p><p class="poetry2">will be sounded as far as Jahaz.</p><p class="poetry2">They will be sounded from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah.</p><p class="poetry2">For even the waters of Nimrim will be dried up.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I will put an end in Moab</p><p class="poetry2">to those who make offerings at her places of worship.</p><p class="poetry2">I will put an end to those who sacrifice to other gods.</p><p class="poetry2">I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, affirm it!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>So my heart moans for Moab</p><p class="poetry2">like a flute playing a funeral song.</p><p class="poetry2">Yes, like a flute playing a funeral song,</p><p class="poetry2">my heart moans for the people of Kir Heres.</p><p class="poetry2">For the wealth they have gained will perish.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For all of them will shave their heads in mourning.</p><p class="poetry2">They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow.</p><p class="poetry2">They will all make gashes in their hands.</p><p class="poetry2">They will all put on sackcloth.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>On all the housetops in Moab</p><p class="poetry2">and in all its public squares</p><p class="poetry2">there will be nothing but mourning.</p><p class="poetry2">For I will break Moab like an unwanted jar.</p><p class="poetry2">I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, affirm it!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Oh, how shattered Moab will be!</p><p class="poetry2">Oh, how her people will wail!</p><p class="poetry2">Oh, how she will turn away in shame!</p><p class="poetry2">Moab will become an object of ridicule,</p><p class="poetry2">a terrifying sight to all the nations that surround her.”</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>For the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says,</p><p class="poetry2">“Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings</p><p class="poetry2">a nation will swoop down on Moab.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Her towns will be captured.</p><p class="poetry2">Her fortresses will be taken.</p><p class="poetry2">At that time the soldiers of Moab will be frightened</p><p class="poetry2">like a woman in labor.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Moab will be destroyed and no longer be a nation,</p><p class="poetry2">because she has vaunted herself against the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Terror, pits, and traps are in store</p><p class="poetry2">for the people who live in Moab.</p><p class="poetry2">I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, affirm it!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Anyone who flees at the sound of terror</p><p class="poetry2">will fall into a pit.</p><p class="poetry2">Anyone who climbs out of the pit</p><p class="poetry2">will be caught in a trap.</p><p class="poetry2">For the time is coming</p><p class="poetry2">when I will punish the people of Moab.</p><p class="poetry2">I, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, affirm it!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>In the shadows of the walls of Heshbon</p><p class="poetry2">those trying to escape will stand helpless.</p><p class="poetry2">For a fire will burst forth from Heshbon.</p><p class="poetry2">Flames will shoot out from the former territory of Sihon.</p><p class="poetry2">They will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab,</p><p class="poetry2">the skulls of those war-loving people.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Moab, you are doomed!</p><p class="poetry2">You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed.</p><p class="poetry2">Your sons will be taken away captive.</p><p class="poetry2">Your daughters will be carried away into exile.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Yet in days to come</p><p class="poetry2">I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.”</p><p class="poetry2">says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>.</p><p class="bodytext">The judgment against Moab ends here.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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