Jeremiah 48
1 Ref Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
2 Ref The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
3 Ref The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
4 Ref Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5 Ref For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
6 Ref Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
7 Ref For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
8 Ref The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
9 Ref Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
10 Ref Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
11 Ref Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
12 Ref Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
13 Ref Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
14 Ref How say you, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
15 Ref Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts.
16 Ref The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
17 Ref All you who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
18 Ref You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
19 Ref Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?
20 Ref Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
21 Ref Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,
