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<br> Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured; <br> The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and shattered. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“There is praise for Moab no longer; <br> In Heshbon they have devised calamity against her: <br> ‘Come and let us cut her off from <i>being</i> a nation!’ <br> You too, Madmen, will be silenced; <br> The sword will follow after you. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim, <br> ‘Devastation and great destruction!’ <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Moab is broken, <br> Her little ones have sounded out a cry <i>of distress.</i> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“For by the ascent of Luhith <br> They will ascend with continual weeping; <br> For at the descent of Horonaim <br> They have heard the anguished cry of destruction. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Flee, save your lives, <br> That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, <br> Even you yourself will be captured; <br> And Chemosh will go off into exile <br> Together with his priests and his princes. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“And a destroyer will come to every city, <br> So that no city will escape; <br> The valley also will be ruined, <br> And the plateau will be destroyed, <br> As the LORD has said. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Give wings to Moab, <br> For she will flee away; <br> And her cities will become a desolation, <br> Without inhabitants in them. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Cursed be the one who does the LORD’s work negligently, <br> And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Moab has been at ease since his youth; <br> He has also been undisturbed on his lees, <br> Neither has he been emptied from vessel to vessel, <br> Nor has he gone into exile. <br> Therefore he retains his flavor, <br> And his aroma has not changed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I shall send to him those who tip <i>vessels,</i> and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“How can you say, ‘We are mighty warriors, <br> And men valiant for battle’? <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Moab has been destroyed, and men have gone up to his cities; <br> His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter,” <br> Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“The disaster of Moab will soon come, <br> And his calamity has swiftly hastened. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Mourn for him, all you who <i>live</i> around him, <br> Even all of you who know his name; <br> Say, ‘How has the mighty scepter been broken, <br> A staff of splendor!’ <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Come down from your glory <br> And sit on the parched ground, <br> O daughter dwelling in Dibon, <br> For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, <br> He has ruined your strongholds. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Stand by the road and keep watch, <br> O inhabitant of Aroer; <br> Ask him who flees and her who escapes <br> <i>And</i> say, ‘What has happened?’ <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Moab has been put to shame, for it has been shattered. <br> Wail and cry out; <br> Declare by the Arnon <br> That Moab has been destroyed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah, and against Mephaath, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>against Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>against Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm broken,” declares the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake <i>your head in scorn.</i> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“Leave the cities and dwell among the crags, <br> O inhabitants of Moab, <br> And be like a dove that nests <br> Beyond the mouth of the chasm. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“We have heard of the pride of Moab—he <i>is</i> very proud— <br> Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance and his self-exaltation. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“I know his fury,” declares the LORD, <br> “But it is futile; <br> His idle boasts have accomplished nothing. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Therefore I shall wail for Moab, <br> Even for all Moab shall I cry out; <br> I will moan for the men of Kir-heres. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“More than the weeping for Jazer <br> I shall weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! <br> Your tendrils stretched across the sea, <br> They reached to the sea of Jazer; <br> Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest <br> The destroyer has fallen. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“So gladness and joy are taken away <br> From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab. <br> And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses; <br> No one will tread <i>them</i> with shouting, <br> The shouting will not be shouts <i>of joy.</i><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim <i>and to</i> Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>“And I shall make an end of Moab,” declares the LORD, “the one who offers <i>sacrifice</i> on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>“Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>“On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel,” declares the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>“How shattered it is! <i>How</i> they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>For thus says the LORD, <br> “Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle, <br> And spread out his wings against Moab. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>“Kerioth has been captured <br> And the strongholds have been seized, <br> So the hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day <br> Will be like the heart of a woman in labor. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>“And Moab will be destroyed from <i>being</i> a people <br> Because he has become arrogant toward the LORD. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>“Terror, pit, and snare are <i>coming</i> upon you, <br> O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the LORD. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>“The one who flees from the terror <br> Will fall into the pit, <br> And the one who climbs up out of the pit <br> Will be caught in the snare; <br> For I shall bring upon her, <i>even</i> upon Moab, <br> The year of their punishment,” declares the LORD. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>“In the shadow of Heshbon <br> The fugitives stand without strength; <br> For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, <br> And a flame from the midst of Sihon, <br> And it has devoured the forehead of Moab <br> And the scalps of the riotous revelers. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>“Woe to you, Moab! <br> The people of Chemosh have perished; <br> For your sons have been taken away captive, <br> And your daughters into captivity. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://bible.cc/jeremiah/48-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>“Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab <br> In the latter days,” declares the LORD. <br> Thus far the judgment on Moab.<p></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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