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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 48 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/48.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/48-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Jeremiah 48</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/47.htm" title="Jeremiah 47">◄</a> Jeremiah 48 <a href="../jeremiah/49.htm" title="Jeremiah 49">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/48-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Judgment on Moab<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:1)</font> Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:2)</font> There is no longer any healing for Moab, <i>nor</i> glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from <i>being</i> a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:3)</font> for <i>there is</i> a voice of <i>men</i> crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:4)</font> Moab is ruined, proclaim <i>it</i> to Zogora:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:5)</font> for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:6)</font> Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:7)</font> Since thou hast trusted in thy strong-hold, therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:8)</font> And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:9)</font> Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence <i>shall there be</i> an inhabitant for her?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:10)</font> Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:11)</font> Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out <i>his liquor</i> from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:12)</font> Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns asunder. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:13)</font> And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:14)</font> How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:15)</font> Moab is ruined, <i>even</i> his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:16)</font> The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly <i>to vengeance</i>.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:17)</font> Shake <i>the head</i> at him, all ye that are round about him; all <i>of you</i> utter his name; say ye, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:18)</font> Come down from <i>thy</i> glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against thee one to ravage thy strong-hold.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:19)</font> Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:20)</font> Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:21)</font> And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:22)</font> and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:23)</font> and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:24)</font> and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:25)</font> The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:26)</font> Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:27)</font> For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:28)</font> The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:29)</font> And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:30)</font> But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:31)</font> Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men <i>in</i> a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:32)</font> O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy fruits, <i>and</i> upon thy grape-gatherers.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:33)</font> Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and <i>though</i> there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:34)</font> From the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings <i>as</i> a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:35)</font> And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:36)</font> Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what <i>every</i> man has gained has perished from him. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:37)</font> They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat <i>the breasts</i>, and on all loins shall be sackcloth. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:38)</font> And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets <i>shall be mourning</i>: for I have broken <i>him</i>, saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:39)</font> How has he changed! how has Moab turned <i>his</i> back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing-stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about him.<p> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:40)</font> For thus said the Lord;<p> <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:41)</font> Carioth is taken, and the strong-holds have been taken together.<p> <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:42)</font> And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.<p> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:43)</font> A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant off Moab.<p> <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><font color=blue>(31:44)</font> he that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.<p> <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p> <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/47.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 47"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 47" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/49.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 49"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 49" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>