At that time Solomon also built a high place for Chemosh, the detested thing of Moab, on the mountain near Jerusalem, as well as for Molech the detested thing of the children of Ammon.
Jeremiah 48:46 - Tree of Life Version Oy to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished! For your sons are taken away captive and your daughters into exile. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to you, O Moab! The people of [the god] Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive and your daughters into captivity. American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity. Common English Bible How terrible for you, Moab; the people of Chemosh have perished. Your sons have been carried off; your daughters have been taken captive. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you, O Moab! You have been ruined, O people of Chemosh! For your sons and your daughters have been taken into captivity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to thee, Moab, thou hast perished, O people of Chamos: for thy sons, and thy daughters are taken captives. |
At that time Solomon also built a high place for Chemosh, the detested thing of Moab, on the mountain near Jerusalem, as well as for Molech the detested thing of the children of Ammon.
The king also desecrated the shrines facing Jerusalem—to the south of the Mount of Destruction—which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
For like fluttering birds, scattered from a nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
So Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
For because of your trust in your works and your treasures, you will be captured, too. Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and princes.
Woe to you, O Moab! You have been destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as refugees and his daughters as captives to Sihon, king of the Amorites.
Don’t you possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? Likewise, whatever Adonai our God has dispossessed from before us, this we will possess.