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Jeremiah - ch 48 v 1 - 20
- Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled.
- There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee.
- A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction.
- Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones.
- For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction.
- Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.
- For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.
- And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken:
- Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.
- Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.
- Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone into captivity : therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another.
- And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted.
- How do you say: We are valiant, and stout men in battle?
- Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
- The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly.
- Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that know his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod?
- Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks.
- Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What Is done?
- Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Amen, that Moab is wasted.
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