Jeremiah 48:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For because you have trusted in your works [your bungling idol images] and in your treasures [instead of in God], you shall also be taken. And Chemosh [your god] shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Common English Bible

⁷ Because you have relied on your own strength and treasures, you also will be captured. Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For because you have had faith in your fortifications and in your storehouses, you too will be seized. And Chemosh will go into captivity: his priests and his leaders together.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.

Jeremiah 48:7 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:21

The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

1 Kings 11:33

This is because he has forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did.

1 Kings 11:7

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.

Psalm 40:4

Happy are those who make the Lord their trust, who do not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods.

Psalm 52:7

“See the one who would not take refuge in God but trusted in abundant riches and sought refuge in wealth!”

Jeremiah 13:25

This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

Jeremiah 43:12

“I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive, and he shall pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks his cloak clean of vermin, and he shall depart from there safely.

Jeremiah 48:13

Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

Jeremiah 48:46

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been taken captive and your daughters into captivity.

Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and slash yourselves with whips! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

Jeremiah 49:4

Why do you boast in your strength? Your strength is ebbing, O faithless daughter. Who trusted in her treasures, saying, “Who will attack me?”

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus says the Lord: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom; do not let the mighty boast in their might; do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth;

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots, in the multitude of your warriors,

Numbers 21:29

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.

1 Timothy 6:17

As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief. Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief,’

Judges 11:24

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?