Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 48
Jeremiah 48 NASB - New American Standard BibleChapter 48 of Jeremiah—New American Standard Bible (NASB)
- ¶ Concerning 1Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
¶ “Woe to 2Nebo, for it has been destroyed;
3Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and [a]shattered. - “There is praise for Moab no longer;
In 4Heshbon they have devised calamity against her:
‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You too, [b]Madmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow after you. - “The sound of an outcry from 5Horonaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’ - “Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress. - “For by the ascent of 6Luhith
They will ascend with continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the [c]anguished cry of destruction. - “7Flee, save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness. - “For because of your 8trust in your own achievements and treasures,
Even you yourself will be captured;
And 9Chemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his princes. - “A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the 10plateau will be destroyed,
As the LORD has said. - “Give [d]11wings to Moab,
For she will [e]flee away;
And her cities will become a 12desolation,
Without inhabitants in them. - “13Cursed be the one who does the LORD’S work 14negligently,
And cursed be the one who restrains his 15sword from blood. - ¶ “Moab has been 16at ease since his youth;
He has also been 17undisturbed, like wine on [f]its dregs,
And he has not been 18emptied from vessel to vessel,
Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore [g]he retains his flavor,
And his aroma has not changed. - ¶ Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter [h]his jars.
- And Moab will be 19ashamed of 20Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of 21Bethel, their confidence.
- ¶ “How can you say, ‘We are 22mighty warriors,
And men valiant for battle’? - “Moab has been destroyed and [i]men have gone up to [j]his cities;
His choicest [k]23young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the 24King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. - “The disaster of Moab will 25soon come,
And his calamity has swiftly hastened. - “Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
Even all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How has the mighty [l]26scepter been broken,
A staff of splendor!’ - “27Come down from your glory
And sit [m]on the parched ground,
O 28daughter dwelling in 29Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds. - “Stand by the road and keep watch,
O inhabitant of 30Aroer;
31Ask him who flees and her who escapes
And say, ‘What has happened?’ - “Moab has been put to shame, for it has been [n]shattered.
Wail and cry out;
Declare by the 32Arnon
That Moab has been destroyed. - ¶ “Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, 33Jahzah and against 34Mephaath,
- against Dibon, Nebo and Beth-diblathaim,
- against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul and 35Beth-meon,
- against 36Kerioth, Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
- The 37horn of Moab has been cut off and his 38arm broken,” declares the LORD.
- “39Make him drunk, for he has [o]become 40arrogant toward the LORD; so Moab will [p]wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.
- Now was not Israel a 41laughingstock to you? Or was he [q]42caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you 43shake your head in scorn.
- ¶ “Leave the cities and dwell among the 44crags,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a 45dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm. - “46We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—
Of his haughtiness, his 47pride, his arrogance and [r]his self-exaltation. - “I know his 48fury,” declares the LORD,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing. - “Therefore I will 49wail for Moab,
Even for all Moab will I cry out;
[s]I will moan for the men of 50Kir-heres. - “More than the 51weeping for 52Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen. - “So 53gladness and joy are taken away
From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.
And I have made the wine to 54cease from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy. - ¶ 55From the outcry at Heshbon even to 56Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have [t]raised their voice, from 57Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.
- I will make an end of Moab,” declares the LORD, “the one who offers sacrifice on the 58high place and the one who [u]59burns incense to his gods.
- ¶ “Therefore My 60heart [v]wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also [w]wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have 61lost the abundance it produced.
- For 62every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and 63sackcloth on the loins.
- On all the 64housetops of Moab and in its streets [x]there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable 65vessel,” declares the LORD.
- “How [y]shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an 66object of terror to all around him.”
- ¶ For thus says the LORD:
¶ “Behold, one will 67fly swiftly like an eagle
And 68spread out his wings against Moab. - “Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the 69hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day
Will be like the heart of a 70woman in labor. - “Moab will be 71destroyed from being a people
Because he has [z]become 72arrogant toward the LORD. - “73Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you,
O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the LORD. - “The one who 74flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their 75punishment,” declares the LORD. - ¶ “In the shadow of Heshbon
The fugitives stand without strength;
For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon
And a 76flame from the midst of 77Sihon,
And it has devoured the 78forehead of Moab
And the scalps of the [aa]riotous revelers. - “79Woe to you, Moab!
The people of 80Chemosh have perished;
For your sons have been taken away captive
And your daughters into captivity. - “Yet I will 81restore the [ab]fortunes of Moab
In the [ac]latter days,” declares the LORD.
¶ Thus far the judgment on Moab.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or dismayed
- ^ I.e. a city of Moab
- ^ Lit distresses of outcry
- ^ Or salt
- ^ Or fall in ruins
- ^ Lit his
- ^ Lit his flavor has stayed in him
- ^ Lit their
- ^ Lit one has
- ^ Lit her
- ^ I.e. warriors
- ^ Or rod
- ^ Lit in thirst
- ^ Or dismayed
- ^ Or magnified himself against
- ^ Or splash into
- ^ Or found
- ^ Lit elevation of his heart
- ^ Another reading is He
- ^ Lit given forth
- ^ Or offers up in smoke
- ^ Lit sounds
- ^ Lit sounds
- ^ Lit all of it is lamentation
- ^ Or dismayed
- ^ Or magnified himself against
- ^ Lit sons of tumult
- ^ Or captivity
- ^ Lit end of the days
REFERENCES
- ^ Is 15:1; Eze 25:9
- ^ Nu 32:3, 38; Je 48:22
- ^ Nu 32:37; Je 48:23; Eze 25:9
- ^ Nu 21:25; Je 48:34, 45; 49:3
- ^ Is 15:5; Je 48:5, 34
- ^ Is 15:5
- ^ Je 51:6
- ^ Ps 52:7; Is 59:4; Je 9:23
- ^ Nu 21:29; 1Ki 11:33; Je 48:13, 46
- ^ Jos 13:9, 17, 21
- ^ Ps 11:1; Is 16:2; Je 48:28
- ^ Je 44:22
- ^ Je 11:3
- ^ 1Ki 20:39, 40, 42; 2Ki 13:19
- ^ Je 47:6, 7
- ^ Je 22:21; Eze 16:49; Zc 1:15
- ^ Zp 1:12
- ^ Na 2:2
- ^ Is 45:16; Je 48:39
- ^ Jg 11:24
- ^ 1Ki 12:29; Ho 8:5, 6
- ^ Ps 33:16; Is 10:13-16
- ^ Is 40:30, 31; Je 50:27
- ^ Je 46:18; 51:57; Ml 1:14
- ^ Is 13:22
- ^ Is 9:4; 14:5
- ^ Is 47:1
- ^ Je 46:19
- ^ Nu 21:30; Jos 13:9, 17; Is 15:2; Je 48:22
- ^ De 2:36; Jos 12:2
- ^ 1Sa 4:13, 14, 16
- ^ Nu 21:13
- ^ Nu 21:23; Is 15:4; Je 48:34
- ^ Jos 13:18
- ^ Jos 13:17
- ^ Je 48:41; Am 2:2
- ^ Ps 75:10; Zc 1:19-21
- ^ Jb 22:9; Ps 10:15
- ^ Je 25:15
- ^ Ex 5:2; Je 48:42; Da 5:23
- ^ La 2:15-17; Mc 7:8-10
- ^ Je 2:26
- ^ Jb 16:4; Je 18:16
- ^ Jg 6:2; Is 2:19; Je 49:16; Ob 3
- ^ Ps 55:6; Sg 2:14
- ^ Is 16:6; Zp 2:8
- ^ Jb 40:11, 12; Ps 138:6
- ^ Is 37:28
- ^ Is 15:5; 16:7, 11
- ^ 2Ki 3:25; Is 16:7, 11; Je 48:36
- ^ Is 16:8, 9
- ^ Nu 21:32
- ^ Is 16:10; Je 25:10; Jl 1:12
- ^ Is 5:10; Hg 2:16
- ^ Is 15:4-6
- ^ Nu 32:3, 37
- ^ Ge 13:10; 14:2; Is 15:5, 6
- ^ Is 15:2; 16:12
- ^ Je 7:9; 11:13
- ^ Is 15:5; 16:11
- ^ Is 15:7
- ^ Is 15:2; Je 16:6; 41:5; 47:5
- ^ Ge 37:34; Is 15:3; 20:2
- ^ Is 22:1
- ^ Je 19:10, 11; 22:28; 25:34
- ^ Eze 26:16
- ^ De 28:49; Je 49:22; Ho 8:1; Hab 1:8
- ^ Is 8:8
- ^ Je 49:22
- ^ Is 13:8; 21:3; Je 30:6; Mc 4:9, 10
- ^ Ps 83:4; Je 48:2
- ^ Is 37:23; Je 48:26
- ^ Is 24:17, 18; La 3:47
- ^ 1Ki 19:17; Is 24:18; Am 5:19
- ^ Je 46:21
- ^ Nu 21:28, 29
- ^ Nu 21:21, 26; Ps 135:11
- ^ Nu 24:17
- ^ Nu 21:29
- ^ Jg 11:24; 1Ki 11:7; Je 48:7
- ^ Je 12:14-17; 49:6, 39
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