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Jeremiah 48:12

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That is why the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send people to pour Moab out of its jars and to smash its pitchers.

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You will break them with an iron scepter. You will smash them to pieces like pottery.”

Moab’s daughters are like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, at the shallow crossings of the Arnon River.

It will break like pottery. It will be smashed, and nothing will be left of it. No piece will be big enough to carry live coals from a fireplace or to dip water from a reservoir.

Important people send their assistants out for water. They go to the cisterns, but they don’t find any water. They come back with their containers empty. They cover their heads, because they are ashamed and disgraced.

⌞The Lord says,⌟ “Then smash the jar in front of the men who went with you.

Mourn, you shepherds, and cry. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. The time has come for you to be slaughtered. The time has come for you to be scattered, and you will break like fine pottery.

so I’m going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, declares the Lord. I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I’m going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.

“Moab has lived securely ever since it was young. Its people are like wine left to settle in a jar. They aren’t poured from one jar to another. They haven’t gone into captivity. That is why its flavor has remained the same, and its aroma hasn’t changed.

Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh as the nation of Israel was ashamed when it trusted Bethel.

The enemy will attack Moab and destroy its cities. Its finest young men will be slaughtered,” declares the king, whose name is the Lord of Armies.

People in Moab will mourn on every rooftop and in every street. There will be mourning everywhere, because I will break Moab like a jar that no one wants,” declares the Lord.

The destroyer will come to every city, and no city will escape. The valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be laid waste as the Lord has threatened.

The Lord will restore Jacob’s glory like Israel’s glory, although enemies have looted it and have destroyed its vines.




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