Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 48:1 (show verse)
Concerning Moab, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated. It is ashamed, Kiriathaim is captured. Misgab is ashamed, and it is filled with terror.
Jeremiah 48:2 (show verse)
The glory of Moab is no longer. In Heshbon they planned evil against her. Come and let us cut her off from [being] a nation. Also, Madmen, you will be silent. After you will go [the] sword.
Jeremiah 48:3 (show verse)
[The] sound of a cry of distress [arises] from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction.
Jeremiah 48:4 (show verse)
Moab is broken, her little ones {make heard} a cry for help.
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Jeremiah 48:5 (show verse)
For the ascent of Luhith, in weeping they go weeping, For on the slope of Horonaim they have heard [the] distresses of [the] cry of distress of [the] destruction.
Jeremiah 48:6 (show verse)
Flee! Save your life! {For} you must not be like the juniper tree in the desert.
Jeremiah 48:7 (show verse)
For because of your trusting in your works and in your treasures, even you yourselves will be taken, and Chemosh will go out into the exile, his priests and his officials together.
Jeremiah 48:8 (show verse)
And [the] destroyer will come to every town, and a town will not escape. And the valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken.
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Jeremiah 48:9 (show verse)
Give salt for Moab, for certainly she will go to ruin, and her towns will become as a desolation, {without} an inhabitant in them.
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Jeremiah 48:10 (show verse)
[The one who] does the work of Yahweh [with] slackness [is] cursed, and [the one who] keeps away blood from his sword [is] cursed.
Jeremiah 48:11 (show verse)
Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has been quiet on his dregs, and he has not been poured out from vessel to vessel, and he has not gone into exile. {Therefore} his taste has remained unchanged, and his fragrance has not changed.
Jeremiah 48:12 (show verse)
{Therefore} look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "and I will send to him {decanters}, and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash.
Jeremiah 48:13 (show verse)
Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel, their trust.
Jeremiah 48:14 (show verse)
How can you say, 'we [are] warriors, and men of might for the battle.'
Jeremiah 48:15 (show verse)
Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering," {declares} the King, Yahweh of hosts [is] his name.
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Jeremiah 48:16 (show verse)
"The disaster of Moab [is] near to come, and his disaster {approaches very quickly}.
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Jeremiah 48:17 (show verse)
Mourn for him, all his surroundings, and all those who knew his name. Say, 'How [the] staff of might is broken, [the] staff of glory.'
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Jeremiah 48:18 (show verse)
Come down from glory and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your fortifications.
Jeremiah 48:19 (show verse)
Stand by [the] road and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer. Ask [the man who is] fleeing and [the woman who is] escaping, say, 'What has happened?'
Jeremiah 48:20 (show verse)
Moab is ashamed, for it is filled with terror. Wail and cry out, tell [it] by Arnon that Moab is devastated.
Jeremiah 48:21 (show verse)
Judgment has also come to the land of the plain, to Holon, and to Jahaz, and on Mephaath,
Jeremiah 48:22 (show verse)
and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,
Jeremiah 48:23 (show verse)
and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,
Jeremiah 48:24 (show verse)
and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, the far and the near.
Jeremiah 48:25 (show verse)
The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48:26 (show verse)
"Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Yahweh, and let Moab wallow in his vomit. And he also will become a laughingstock.
Jeremiah 48:27 (show verse)
Now [was] not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For {as often as} you spoke over him you shook [your head].
Jeremiah 48:28 (show verse)
Leave [the] towns and dwell on the rock, O inhabitants of Moab, and be like [the] dove, it nests on [the] sides of [the] mouth of a ravine.
Jeremiah 48:29 (show verse)
We have heard [of] the pride of Moab --[he is] very proud-- his height, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jeremiah 48:30 (show verse)
I know his insolence," {declares} Yahweh, "and his boastings [are] {false}; they act {falsely}.
Jeremiah 48:31 (show verse)
{Therefore} over Moab I wail, and for all of Moab I cry out, for the people of Kir-heres I moan.
Jeremiah 48:32 (show verse)
More than the weeping of Jazer I weep for you, O vine Sibmah. Your branches cross over [the] sea, up to the sea of Jazer they reach. Upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage [the] destroyer has fallen.
Jeremiah 48:33 (show verse)
And joy and rejoicing have been taken away from [the] fruitful land, even from the land of Moab. And [the] wine from [the] wine presses I have caused to disappear. He will not tread [with] exuberant shouts. Exuberant shouts [will] not [be] exuberant shouts.
Jeremiah 48:34 (show verse)
From the cry for help of Heshbon, up to Elealeh, up to Jahaz, they give their voice, from Zoar up to Horonaim, [up to] Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim have become as a desolation.
Jeremiah 48:35 (show verse)
And I will cause to disappear for Moab," {declares} Yahweh, "[the] one who presents a sacrifice [at] a high place, and [the one who] burns a smoke offering to his gods.
Jeremiah 48:36 (show verse)
{Therefore} my heart moans for Moab like the flute. It moans for the people of Kir-heres like the flute. {Therefore} [the] wealth they gained has perished.
Jeremiah 48:37 (show verse)
For [on] every head [is] baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all [the] hands, slashes, and on [the] loins, sackcloth.
Jeremiah 48:38 (show verse)
On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, [there is] wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," {declares} Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 48:39 (show verse)
"How it is filled with terror! [How] they wail! How Moab has turned [his] back! He is disgraced! So Moab has become as a derision, and as a terror for all his surrounding [peoples]."
Jeremiah 48:40 (show verse)
For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab.
Jeremiah 48:41 (show verse)
Kerioth will be taken, and the strongholds will be conquered, and the hearts of the warriors of Moab will be on that day like [the] heart of a woman [who] is in labor.
Jeremiah 48:42 (show verse)
And Moab will be destroyed from [being] a people, because against Yahweh he magnified himself.
Jeremiah 48:43 (show verse)
Dread, and pit, and a trapping net [are] against you, O inhabitant of Moab," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48:44 (show verse)
"He [who] flees {before} the dread will fall into the pit, and the [one who] climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48:45 (show verse)
"In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand without strength, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. And it has eaten the forehead of Moab, and the skulls of the people of tumult.
Jeremiah 48:46 (show verse)
Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished. For your sons have been taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity.
Jeremiah 48:47 (show verse)
Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the last of the days," {declares} Yahweh. {Thus far} [is] the judgment of Moab.