You shall break the nations with an iron scepter. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s jar.”
Jeremiah 48:12 - Tree of Life Version Therefore behold, days are coming” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “when I will send to him those who will tip him up and over, and they will empty his vessels, and smash his jars in pieces. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I shall send to [Moab] tilters who shall tilt him up and shall empty his vessels and break his bottles (earthenware) in pieces. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him them that pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. Common English Bible But the time is coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him someone to spill it—to pour out his wine and to smash his jars. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will send to him those who will line up and knock down his bottles, and they will knock him down and empty his vessels, and they will break their bottles against one another. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles: and they shall cast him down: and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another. |
You shall break the nations with an iron scepter. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s jar.”
For like fluttering birds, scattered from a nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
Its collapse is like smashing a clay jar, so ruthlessly shattered that a shard will not be found among the pieces to take fire from the hearth or scoop water from the cistern.”
Their nobles will send their lads for water. They come to the cisterns, but find no water. Their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
“Then you will shatter the jar in the presence of the people who accompany you,
Wail, you shepherds, and cry! Wallow in the dust, you leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are full. You will fall like a precious vase.
I will soon send for and bring all the families of the north”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“and I will send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, an enduring desolation.
Moab has been at ease since his youth. He has settled like wine on its dregs. He has not been emptied from jar to jar, nor gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, and his aroma has not changed.
So Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
Moab is ravaged, its towns entered, its choice young men gone down to slaughter” —It is a declaration of the King, whose Name is Adonai-Tzva’ot.
On all the housetops of Moab and in its squares— lamentation everywhere! For I have broken Moab like a jar In which no one delights” —it is a declaration of Adonai—
The destroyer will come to every town. No town will escape. The valley will perish and the plain will be destroyed, as Adonai has said.
A shatterer has come up against you. Guard the rampart! Watch the way! Chazak! Be very courageous!