Jeremiah 48:1–9
1Of 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 shame and broken down.↗
2The 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 brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.↗
3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!↗
4Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.↗
5For 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 destruction.↗
6Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.↗
7For, 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 princes together.↗
8The 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.↗
9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.↗
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