Jeremiah 48:37–47

³⁷For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.↗

³⁸On 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,” says the LORD.↗

³⁹“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.”↗

⁴⁰For the LORD says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.↗

⁴¹Kerioth 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.↗

⁴²Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.↗

⁴³Terror, the pit, and the snare are on you, inhabitant of Moab,” says the LORD.↗

⁴⁴“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 Moab, the year of their visitation,” says the LORD.↗

⁴⁵“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 devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.↗

⁴⁶Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.↗

⁴⁷“Yet I will reverse the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.↗