Jeremiah 48:1-10
1About Moab, a this is what the Lord of ▼▼Hosts/hosts: Military forces consisting of God's angels, sometimes including the sun, moon, and stars, and occasionally, Israel
Hosts, the God of Israel, says:Woe to Nebo, c because it is about to be destroyed;Kiriathaim will be put to shame; d it will be taken captive.
The fortress will be put to shame and dismayed!
2 There is no longer praise for Moab;
they plan harm against her in Heshbon: e
Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood.
Also, Madmen, ▼
▼A city in Moab
you will be silenced;the sword will pursue you.
3 A voice cries out from Horonaim, g
“devastation and great disaster!”
4 Moab will be shattered;
her little ones will cry out.
5 For on the Ascent to Luhith
they will be weeping continually, ▼
▼Lit Luhith, weeping goes up with weeping
and on the descent to Horonaim
will be heard cries of distress over the destruction: i
6 Flee! Save your lives!
Be like a juniper bush ▼ , k in the wilderness.
7 Because you trust in your works ▼
▼LXX reads strongholds
and treasures,you will be captured also.
Chemosh m will go into exile
with his priests and officials.
8 The destroyer will move against every town;
not one town will escape.
The valley will perish,
and the plain will be annihilated, n
as the Lord has said.
9 Make Moab a salt marsh, ▼
▼LXX reads a sign; Vg reads a flower; Syr, Tg read a crown
,
pfor she will run away; ▼
▼Hb obscure
her towns will become a desolation,
without inhabitant.
10 The one who does
the Lord’s business deceitfully ▼
▼Or negligently
is cursed, sand the one who withholds
his sword from bloodshed is cursed.
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