Jeremiah Chapter 48

• Jeremiah 48:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 48:2
  Of Moab. The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is disappointed. It is taken. Misgab is put to sh...
• Jeremiah 48:3
  The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be...
• Jeremiah 48:4
  The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
• Jeremiah 48:5
  Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
• Jeremiah 48:6
  For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruct...
• Jeremiah 48:7
  Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
• Jeremiah 48:8
  For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his pri...
• Jeremiah 48:9
  The destroyer will come on every city, and no city will escape; the valley also will perish, and the plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.
• Jeremiah 48:10
  Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.
• Jeremiah 48:11
  “Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
• Jeremiah 48:12
  “Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into capti...
• Jeremiah 48:13
  Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will send to him those who pour off, and they will pour him off; and they will empty his vess...
• Jeremiah 48:14
  Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
• Jeremiah 48:15
  “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war’?
• Jeremiah 48:16
  Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is the...
• Jeremiah 48:17
  “The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
• Jeremiah 48:18
  All you who are around him, bemoan him; and all you who know his name, say, ‘How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!’
• Jeremiah 48:19
  “You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed y...
• Jeremiah 48:20
  Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’
• Jeremiah 48:21
  Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
• Jeremiah 48:22
  Judgment has come on the plain country— on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,
• Jeremiah 48:23
  on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
• Jeremiah 48:24
  on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
• Jeremiah 48:25
  on Kerioth, on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
• Jeremiah 48:26
  The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 48:27
  “Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will be in derision.
• Jeremiah 48:28
  For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
• Jeremiah 48:29
  You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock. Be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
• Jeremiah 48:30
  “We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
• Jeremiah 48:31
  I know his wrath,” says the LORD, “that it is nothing; his boastings have done nothing.
• Jeremiah 48:32
  Therefore I will wail for Moab. Yes, I will cry out for all Moab. They will mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
• Jeremiah 48:33
  With more than the weeping of Jazer I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches passed over the sea. They reached even to the sea of Jazer. The...
• Jeremiah 48:34
  Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread...
• Jeremiah 48:35
  From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for the water...
• Jeremiah 48:36
  Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says the LORD, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
• Jeremiah 48:37
  Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like flutes, and my heart sounds like flutes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten h...
• Jeremiah 48:38
  For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.
• Jeremiah 48:39
  On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” say...
• Jeremiah 48:40
  “How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So will Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him....
• Jeremiah 48:41
  For the LORD says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.
• Jeremiah 48:42
  Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized. The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
• Jeremiah 48:43
  Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
• Jeremiah 48:44
  Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you, inhabitant of Moab,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 48:45
  “He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare, for I will bring on him, even on M...
• Jeremiah 48:46
  “Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and has ...
• Jeremiah 48:47
  Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
• Jeremiah 48:48
  “Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.