Jeremiah 48:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Moab’s glory is no more. In Heshbon they plot evil against her: “Come! We will put an end to her as a nation.” You, too, Madmen, shall be silenced; you the sword stalks!

Cross References

Isaiah 15:1

Oracle on Moab: Laid waste in a night, Ar of Moab is destroyed; Laid waste in a night, Kir of Moab is destroyed.

Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out for Moab, his fugitives reach Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah: The ascent of Luhith they ascend weeping; On the way to Horonaim they utter rending cries;

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord speaks: In three years, like the years of a hired laborer, the glory of Moab shall be empty despite all its great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and weak.

Isaiah 25:10

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trodden down as straw is trodden down in the mire.

Jeremiah 25:15

For thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and have all the nations to whom I will send you drink it.

Jeremiah 25:17

I took the cup from the hand of the Lord and gave it as drink to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me:

Jeremiah 31:36

If ever this fixed order gives way before me—oracle of the Lord— Then would the offspring of Israel cease as a people before me forever.

Jeremiah 33:24

Have you not noticed what these people are saying: “The Lord has rejected the two tribes he had chosen”? They hold my people in contempt as if it were no longer a nation in their eyes.

Jeremiah 46:28

You, Jacob my servant, must not fear—oracle of the Lord— for I am with you; I will make an end of all the nations to which I have driven you, But of you I will not make an end: I will chastise you as you deserve, I cannot let you go unpunished.

Jeremiah 48:17

Mourn, all you neighbors, all you who know its name! Say: How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff!

Jeremiah 48:42

Moab shall be wiped out, a people no more, because it set itself over against the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:45

In Heshbon’s shadow the fugitives stop short, exhausted; For fire blazes up from Heshbon, and flames up from the house of Sihon: It consumes the forehead of Moab, the scalp of the noisemakers.

Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, Heshbon, “The ruin is destroyed!” shriek, villages of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and lament! Run back and forth in the sheepfolds. For Milcom is going into exile, taking priest and prince with him.

Jeremiah 49:37

I will terrify Elam before their foes, those seeking their life; I will bring evil upon them, my burning wrath—oracle of the Lord. I will send sword after them until I have finished them off;

Numbers 32:37

The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,