NITHYAM SONGSJeremiah 48
World English Bible (WEB) • 47 verses
1Of Moab. The LORD 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.
RelatedJeremiah 48:22-23 · Numbers 32:37-38 · Numbers 32:3 · Amos 2:1-2 · Ezekiel 25:8-11 · Jeremiah 25:21
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.
RelatedJeremiah 31:36 · Isaiah 16:14 · Numbers 32:37 · Isaiah 16:8-9 · Jeremiah 48:17 · Psalms 83:4-8
3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
4Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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.
RelatedIsaiah 15:5
6Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
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.
8The destroyer will come on every city, and no city will escape; the valley also will perish, and the plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.
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.
10“Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Related1 Samuel 15:3 · 1 Kings 20:42 · Judges 5:23 · 1 Samuel 15:9 · Numbers 31:14-18 · 2 Kings 13:19
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.
RelatedZephaniah 1:12 · Zechariah 1:15 · Jeremiah 48:29 · Ezekiel 16:49-50 · Nahum 2:2 · Psalms 123:4
12Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “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.
13Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
RelatedIsaiah 45:16 · Hosea 8:5-6 · Jeremiah 48:39 · Judges 11:24 · 1 Kings 18:26-29 · 1 Samuel 5:3-7
14“How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war’?
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 the LORD of Armies.
RelatedJeremiah 46:18 · Jeremiah 50:27 · Jeremiah 51:57 · Malachi 1:14 · Isaiah 40:30-31 · Jeremiah 48:4
16“The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
RelatedIsaiah 13:22 · 2 Peter 2:3 · Ezekiel 12:23 · Jeremiah 1:12 · Isaiah 16:13-14 · Deuteronomy 32:35
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!’
RelatedIsaiah 9:4 · Isaiah 10:5 · Jeremiah 9:17-20 · Isaiah 16:8 · Isaiah 14:4-5 · Jeremiah 48:31-33
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.
19Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’
RelatedDeuteronomy 2:36 · 1 Samuel 4:16 · 1 Samuel 4:13-14 · 2 Samuel 18:24-32 · 2 Samuel 1:3-4 · Numbers 32:34
20Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
RelatedIsaiah 16:2 · Judges 11:18 · Isaiah 15:8 · Numbers 21:26-28 · Numbers 21:13-14 · Jeremiah 48:1-5
21Judgment has come on the plain country— on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,
22on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
23on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
24on Kerioth, on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says the LORD.
26“Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.
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.
RelatedJeremiah 2:26 · Micah 7:8-10 · Lamentations 2:15-17 · Ezekiel 25:8 · Zephaniah 2:8 · Psalms 44:13
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.
RelatedJudges 6:2 · Psalms 55:6-7 · Song of Solomon 2:14 · Jeremiah 49:16 · Isaiah 2:19 · Jeremiah 48:9
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.
30I know his wrath,” says the LORD, “that it is nothing; his boastings have done nothing.
31Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
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.
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.
RelatedIsaiah 5:10 · Haggai 2:16 · Jeremiah 25:9-10 · Isaiah 16:9-10 · Isaiah 32:9-14 · Revelation 18:22-23
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.
RelatedIsaiah 15:4-6 · Numbers 32:3 · Deuteronomy 34:3 · Jeremiah 48:2-3 · Numbers 32:36-37 · Jeremiah 48:5
35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says the LORD, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
RelatedIsaiah 15:2 · Isaiah 16:12 · Numbers 28:28-30 · Numbers 22:40-41 · Jeremiah 11:13 · Numbers 28:14
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.
37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.
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 the LORD.
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.”
RelatedLamentations 1:1 · Lamentations 2:1 · Lamentations 4:1 · Revelation 18:9-10 · Revelation 18:15-16 · Ezekiel 26:16-18
40For the LORD says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.
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.
42Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
RelatedJeremiah 48:2 · Isaiah 37:23 · Jeremiah 30:11 · Jeremiah 48:26-30 · Isaiah 7:8 · Psalms 83:4-8
43Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you, inhabitant of Moab,” says the LORD.
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 the LORD.
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.
46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
47“Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
RelatedJeremiah 49:39 · Jeremiah 49:6 · Numbers 24:14 · Jeremiah 46:26 · Isaiah 23:18 · Jeremiah 12:15
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