Jeremiah 48:44

New American Bible - revised edition

Those fleeing the terror fall into the pit; Those climbing out of the pit are caught in the trap; Ah, yes! I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their punishment—oracle of the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:17

Anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill. Anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

1 Kings 20:30

The survivors fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand of them. Ben-hadad, too, fled, and took refuge within the city, in an inner room.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, when the storm comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth,

Isaiah 24:17

Terror, pit, and trap for you, inhabitant of the earth!

Isaiah 24:18

One who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; One who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high are open and the foundations of the earth shake.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are nothing, objects of ridicule; they will perish in their time of punishment.

Jeremiah 11:23

None shall be spared among them, for I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.

Jeremiah 16:16

Look!—oracle of the Lord—I will send many fishermen to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and rocky crevice.

Jeremiah 23:12

Hence their way shall become for them slippery ground. Into the darkness they shall be driven, and fall headlong; For I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 46:21

Even the mercenaries in her ranks are like fattened calves; They too turn and flee together— they do not stand their ground, For their day of ruin comes upon them, their time of punishment.

Jeremiah 49:8

Flee, retreat, hide deep for lodging, inhabitants of Dedan: For I bring disaster upon Esau when I come to punish them.

Jeremiah 50:24

You ensnared yourself and were caught, Babylon, before you knew it! You were discovered and seized, because you challenged the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:27

Slay all the oxen, take them down to slaughter; Woe to them! their day has come, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 51:18

They are nothing, a ridiculous work, that will perish at the time of punishment.

Jeremiah 8:12

They have acted shamefully; they have done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they do not know how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in their time of punishment they shall stumble, says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:47

Panic and the pit have been our lot, desolation and destruction;

Hosea 9:7

They have come, the days of punishment! they have come, the days of recompense! Let Israel know it! “The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!” Because your iniquity is great, great, too, is your hostility.

Amos 5:19

As if someone fled from a lion and a bear met him; Or as if on entering the house he rested his hand against the wall, and a snake bit it.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier, the most honest like a thorn hedge. The day announced by your sentinels! Your punishment has come; now is the time of your confusion.