Jeremiah 48

1Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is disappointed. It is taken. Misgab is put to shame and broken down.Cross-references: Gen 19:37 · Num 24:17 · Num 32:3 · Num 32:37 · Num 33:47 · 2Chr 20:10 · +10 more

2The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.Cross-references: Num 21:25 · Num 32:37 · Esth 3:8 · Ps 83:4 · Isa 15:1 · Isa 15:5 · +13 more

3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!Cross-references: Isa 15:2 · Isa 15:5 · Isa 15:8 · Isa 16:7 · Isa 22:4 · Jer 4:20 · +3 more

4Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.Cross-references: Num 21:27 · Esth 8:11 · Ps 137:9

5For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.Cross-references: Isa 15:5

6Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · Job 30:3 · Ps 11:1 · Prov 6:4 · Jer 17:6 · Jer 51:6 · +4 more

7For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.Cross-references: Num 21:29 · Judg 11:24 · 1Ki 11:7 · 1Ki 11:33 · Ps 40:4 · Ps 49:6 · +14 more

8The destroyer will come on every city, and no city will escape; the valley also will perish, and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken.Cross-references: Josh 13:9 · Josh 13:17 · Josh 13:21 · Jer 6:26 · Jer 15:8 · Jer 25:9 · +4 more

9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.Cross-references: Ps 11:1 · Ps 55:6 · Isa 16:2 · Jer 46:19 · Jer 48:28 · Zeph 2:9 · +1 more

10“Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.Cross-references: Num 31:14 · Judg 5:23 · 1Sam 15:3 · 1Sam 15:9 · 1Sam 15:13 · 1Ki 20:42 · +3 more

11“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, 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.Cross-references: Ps 55:19 · Ps 73:4 · Ps 123:4 · Prov 1:32 · Isa 16:6 · Isa 24:3 · +8 more

12Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will send to him those who pour off, and they will pour him off; and they will empty his vessels, and break their containers in pieces.Cross-references: Ps 2:9 · Isa 16:2 · Isa 30:14 · Jer 14:3 · Jer 19:10 · Jer 25:9 · +7 more

13Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.Cross-references: Judg 11:24 · 1Sam 5:3 · 1Ki 11:7 · 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 18:26 · 1Ki 18:40 · +12 more

14“How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war’?Cross-references: Ps 11:1 · Ps 33:16 · Eccl 9:11 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 10:16 · Isa 16:6 · +6 more

15Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Ps 24:8 · Ps 47:2 · Isa 34:2 · Isa 40:30 · Jer 46:18 · Jer 48:4 · +9 more

16“The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Isa 13:22 · Isa 16:13 · Jer 1:12 · Ezek 12:23 · Ezek 12:28 · +1 more

17All you who are around him, bemoan him; and all you who know his name, say, ‘How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!’Cross-references: Isa 9:4 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 16:8 · Jer 9:17 · Jer 48:31 · +4 more

18“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.Cross-references: Gen 21:16 · Ex 17:3 · Num 21:30 · Num 32:3 · Josh 13:9 · Josh 13:17 · +7 more

19Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’Cross-references: Num 32:34 · Deut 2:36 · 1Sam 4:13 · 1Sam 4:16 · 2Sam 1:3 · 2Sam 18:24 · +2 more

20Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.Cross-references: Num 21:13 · Num 21:26 · Deut 2:36 · Josh 13:9 · Judg 11:18 · Isa 15:1 · +4 more

21Judgment has come on the plain country— on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,Cross-references: Num 21:23 · Josh 13:18 · Josh 21:36 · Isa 15:4 · Jer 48:8 · Ezek 25:9 · +1 more

22on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,Cross-references: Num 32:34 · Num 33:46 · Jer 48:1 · Jer 48:18 · Ezek 6:14

23on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,Cross-references: Gen 14:5 · Num 32:38 · Josh 13:17 · Josh 13:19 · Jer 48:1

24on Kerioth, on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.Cross-references: Deut 4:43 · Josh 21:36 · Jer 48:41 · Amos 2:2 · Zeph 2:8

25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Num 32:37 · Job 22:9 · Ps 10:15 · Ps 37:17 · Ps 75:10 · Lam 2:3 · +5 more

26“Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against Yahweh. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · Ex 9:17 · Job 9:4 · Ps 2:4 · Ps 59:8 · Ps 60:3 · +27 more

27For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.Cross-references: Job 16:4 · Ps 44:13 · Ps 79:4 · Prov 24:17 · Jer 2:26 · Jer 18:16 · +13 more

28You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.Cross-references: Judg 6:2 · 1Sam 13:6 · Ps 55:6 · Song 2:14 · Isa 2:19 · Jer 48:9 · +2 more

29“We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.Cross-references: Job 40:10 · Ps 138:6 · Prov 8:13 · Prov 18:12 · Prov 30:13 · Isa 2:11 · +5 more

30I know his wrath,” says Yahweh, “that it is nothing; his boastings have done nothing.Cross-references: Job 9:12 · Ps 33:10 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 16:6 · Isa 37:28 · Jer 50:36

31Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.Cross-references: 2Ki 3:25 · Isa 15:5 · Isa 16:7 · Jer 48:36

32With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruits and on your vintage.Cross-references: Num 21:32 · Num 32:1 · Num 32:35 · Num 32:38 · Josh 13:19 · Josh 21:39 · +5 more

33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.Cross-references: Isa 5:10 · Isa 7:23 · Isa 9:3 · Isa 16:9 · Isa 24:7 · Isa 32:9 · +6 more

34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the waters of Nimrim will also become desolate.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Num 32:3 · Num 32:36 · Deut 34:3 · Isa 15:4 · Jer 48:2 · +1 more

35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.Cross-references: Num 22:40 · Num 28:14 · Num 28:28 · Isa 15:2 · Isa 16:12 · Jer 11:13 · +1 more

36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes, and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.Cross-references: Prov 11:4 · Prov 13:22 · Prov 18:11 · Eccl 5:13 · Isa 15:5 · Isa 15:7 · +6 more

37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Gen 37:34 · Lev 19:28 · 1Ki 18:28 · 1Ki 21:27 · 2Ki 6:30 · +13 more

38On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 2:9 · Isa 15:3 · Isa 22:1 · Isa 30:14 · Jer 22:28 · Jer 25:34 · +4 more

39“How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.”Cross-references: Isa 20:4 · Jer 48:17 · Jer 48:26 · Lam 1:1 · Lam 2:1 · Lam 4:1 · +3 more

40For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 8:8 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 49:22 · Lam 4:19 · Ezek 17:3 · +3 more

41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized. The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.Cross-references: Isa 13:8 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 26:17 · Jer 4:31 · Jer 6:24 · Jer 30:6 · +6 more

42Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.Cross-references: Esth 3:8 · Ps 83:4 · Prov 16:18 · Isa 7:8 · Isa 37:23 · Jer 30:11 · +6 more

43Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you, inhabitant of Moab,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 32:23 · Ps 11:6 · Isa 24:17 · Lam 3:47

44“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare, for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:17 · 1Ki 20:30 · Isa 10:3 · Isa 24:18 · Isa 37:36 · Jer 8:12 · +11 more

45“Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.Cross-references: Num 21:21 · Num 21:26 · Num 21:28 · Num 24:17 · Amos 2:2 · Zech 10:4 · +1 more

46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.Cross-references: Num 21:29 · Judg 11:24 · 1Ki 11:7 · 2Ki 23:13 · Jer 48:7 · Jer 48:13

47“Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.Cross-references: Num 24:14 · Deut 4:30 · Deut 31:29 · Job 19:25 · Isa 18:7 · Isa 19:18 · +12 more