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title: Jeremiah 48
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createdAt: 2024-08-25T01:52:24.572Z
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**1 **Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded *and* taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

**2 ***There shall be* no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from *being* a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

**3 **A voice of crying *shall be* from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

**4 **Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

**5 **For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

**6 **Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

**7 **For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity *with* his priests and his princes together.

**8 **And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

**9 **Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

**10 **Cursed *be* he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed *be* he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

**11 **Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

**12 **Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. **13 **And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

**14 **How say ye, We *are* mighty and strong men for the war?

**15 **Moab is spoiled, and gone up *out of* her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name *is* the LORD of hosts.

**16 **The calamity of Moab *is* near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

**17 **All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, *and* the beautiful rod!

**18 **Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from *thy* glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, *and* he shall destroy thy strong holds.

**19 **O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, *and* say, What is done?

**20 **Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

**21 **And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, **22 **And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim, **23 **And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon, **24 **And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. **25 **The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. **26 **Make ye him drunken: for he magnified *himself* against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. **27 **For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

**28 **O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove *that* maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

**29 **We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

**30 **I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but *it shall* not *be* so; his lies shall not so effect *it*.

**31 **Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; *mine heart* shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

**32 **O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach *even* to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

**33 **And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; *their* shouting *shall be* no shouting.

**34 **From the cry of Heshbon *even* unto Elealeh, *and even* unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar *even* unto Horonaim, *as* an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. **35 **Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

**36 **Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches *that* he hath gotten are perished. **37 **For every head *shall be* bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands *shall be* cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. **38 ***There shall be* lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein *is* no pleasure, saith the LORD. **39 **They shall howl, *saying*, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

**40 **For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

**41 **Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

**42 **And Moab shall be destroyed from *being* a people, because he hath magnified *himself* against the LORD.

**43 **Fear, and the pit, and the snare, *shall be* upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

**44 **He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, *even* upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

**45 **They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

**46 **Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

**47 **Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far *is* the judgment of Moab.