Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 48:46 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been taken captive and your daughters into captivity. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to you, O Moab! The people of [the god] Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive and your daughters into captivity. American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity. Common English Bible How terrible for you, Moab; the people of Chemosh have perished. Your sons have been carried off; your daughters have been taken captive. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you, O Moab! You have been ruined, O people of Chemosh! For your sons and your daughters have been taken into captivity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast perished, O people of Chamos: for thy sons, and thy daughters are taken captives. |
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds and your treasures, you also shall be taken; Chemosh shall go out into exile, with his priests and his attendants.
Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives and his daughters captives to an Amorite king, Sihon.
Should you not possess what your god Chemosh gives you to possess? And should we not be the ones to possess everything that the Lord our God has conquered for our benefit?