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Jeremiah 48:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

There is no longer praise for Moab; they plan harm against her in Heshbon: Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood. Also, Madmen, you will be silenced; the sword will follow   you.

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If this fixed order departs from before me – this is the  Lord’s declaration – only then will Israel’s descendants cease to be a nation before me for ever.


And now the Lord says, ‘In three years, as a hired worker counts years,  Moab’s splendour will become an object of contempt, in spite of a very large population. And those who are left will be few and weak.’


The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,


Wail, Heshbon,  for Ai is devastated; cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourselves with sackcloth,  and lament; run back and forth within your walls, because Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.


Those who flee will stand exhausted in Heshbon’s shadow because fire has come out from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It will devour Moab’s forehead and the skull of the noisemakers.


Moab will be destroyed as a people because he has exalted himself against the  Lord.


Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations, everyone who knows his name. Say, ‘How the mighty sceptre  is shattered, the glorious staff! ’


And you, my servant Jacob, do not be afraid – this is the  Lord’s declaration – for I will be with you. I will bring destruction on all the nations where I have banished you, but I will not bring destruction on you. I will discipline you with justice, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.


‘Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, “The Lord has rejected the two families he had chosen.”  My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.


So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink from it.


This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ‘Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it.


For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain. But Moab  will be trampled in his place as straw is trampled in a dung pile.


My heart cries out over Moab, whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah; they go up the Ascent of Luhith weeping; they raise a cry of destruction on the road to Horonaim.


A pronouncement concerning Moab: Ar in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night. Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night.


I will devastate Elam before their enemies, before those who intend to take their lives. I will bring disaster on them, my burning anger. This is the  Lord’s declaration. I will send the sword after them until I finish them off.





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