Jer 48:43-44 | NET2full | STEP | Terror , pits , and traps are in store for the people who live in Moab . I, the Lord , affirm it!

Jeremiah 48:43-44

43 Terror, pits, and traps ^{▼▼sn There is an extended use of assonance here and in the parallel passage in Isa 24:17. The Hebrew text reads פַּחַד וָפַחַת וָפָח (pakhad vafakhat vafakh). The assonance is intended to underscore the extensive trouble that is in store for them.} are in store
for the people who live in Moab. ^{▼▼tn Heb “are upon you, inhabitant of Moab.” This is another example of the rapid switch in person, or direct address (apostrophe) in the midst of a third person description or prediction, which the present translation typically keeps in the third person for smoother English style.}
I, the Lord, affirm it! ^{▼▼tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”}
44 Anyone who flees at the sound of terror
will fall into a pit.
Anyone who climbs out of the pit
will be caught in a trap. ^{▼▼sn Jer 48:43-44a are in the main the same as Isa 24:17-18, which shows that the judgment was somewhat proverbial. For a very similar kind of argumentation see Amos 5:19; judgment is unavoidable.}
For the time is coming
when I will punish the people of Moab. ^{▼▼tn Heb “For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, the year of her punishment.”}
I, the Lord, affirm it! ^{▼▼tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”}