Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 48:1 (show verse)
Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
Jeremiah 48:2 (show verse)
The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
Jeremiah 48:3 (show verse)
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
Jeremiah 48:4 (show verse)
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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Jeremiah 48:5 (show verse)
For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 48:6 (show verse)
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 48:7 (show verse)
For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Chemosh » An idol of » The moabites and ammonites
false Confidence » Self-confidence, an element of insecurity » Miscellaneous references to
false Confidence » In outward resources
Moabites » Prophesies respecting » To be captives in babylon
Moabites » Described as » Rich and confident
Trust » Of the wicked » Is in wealth
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh » Chemosh, a God of the moabites
false Confidence » Self-confidence, an element of insecurity » Miscellaneous references to
false Confidence » In outward resources
Moabites » Prophesies respecting » To be captives in babylon
Moabites » Described as » Rich and confident
Trust » Of the wicked » Is in wealth
false Worship » gods, false » Images » Names of » Chemosh » Chemosh, a God of the moabites
Jeremiah 48:8 (show verse)
The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
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Jeremiah 48:9 (show verse)
Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
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Jeremiah 48:10 (show verse)
Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Jeremiah 48:11 (show verse)
Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
Jeremiah 48:12 (show verse)
Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Jeremiah 48:13 (show verse)
Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
Jeremiah 48:14 (show verse)
How do you say, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
Jeremiah 48:15 (show verse)
Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
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Jeremiah 48:16 (show verse)
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
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Jeremiah 48:17 (show verse)
All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
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Jeremiah 48:18 (show verse)
You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
Jeremiah 48:19 (show verse)
Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
Jeremiah 48:20 (show verse)
Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
Jeremiah 48:21 (show verse)
Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, 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 cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
Jeremiah 48:25 (show verse)
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48:26 (show verse)
Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jeremiah 48:27 (show verse)
For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
Jeremiah 48:28 (show verse)
You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
Jeremiah 48:29 (show verse)
We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Jeremiah 48:30 (show verse)
I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.
Jeremiah 48:31 (show verse)
Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.
Jeremiah 48:32 (show verse)
With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
Jeremiah 48:33 (show verse)
Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.
Jeremiah 48:34 (show verse)
From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
Jeremiah 48:35 (show verse)
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
Jeremiah 48:36 (show verse)
Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.
Jeremiah 48:37 (show verse)
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
Jeremiah 48:38 (show verse)
On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.
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Jeremiah 48:39 (show verse)
How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.
Jeremiah 48:40 (show verse)
For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Jeremiah 48:41 (show verse)
Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 48:42 (show verse)
Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48:43 (show verse)
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48:44 (show verse)
He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 48:45 (show verse)
Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jeremiah 48:46 (show verse)
Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
Jeremiah 48:47 (show verse)
Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.