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Jeremiah

1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is con­found­ed and tak­en: Mis­gab is con­found­ed and dis­mayed. 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Hes­h­bon they have de­vised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a na­tion. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Mad­men; the sword shall pur­sue thee. 3 A voice of cry­ing shall be from Horon­aim, spoil­ing and great de­struc­tion. 4 Moab is de­stroyed; her lit­tle ones have caused a cry to be heard. 5 For in the go­ing up of Luhith con­tin­u­al weep­ing shall go up; for in the go­ing down of Horon­aim the en­e­mies have heard a cry of de­struc­tion. 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilder­ness. 7 For be­cause thou hast trust­ed in thy works and in thy trea­sures, thou shalt also be tak­en: and Chemosh shall go forth into cap­tiv­i­ty with his priests and his princes to­geth­er. 8 And the spoil­er shall come upon ev­ery city, and no city shall es­cape: the val­ley also shall per­ish, and the plain shall be de­stroyed, as the LORD hath spo­ken. 9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities there­of shall be des­o­late, with­out any to dwell there­in. 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD de­ceit­ful­ly, and cursed be he that keep­eth back his sword from blood. 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath set­tled on his lees, and hath not been emp­tied from ves­sel to ves­sel, nei­ther hath he gone into cap­tiv­i­ty: there­fore his taste re­mained in him, and his scent is not changed. 12 There­fore, be­hold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wan­der­ers, that shall cause him to wan­der, and shall emp­ty his ves­sels, and break their bot­tles. 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Is­rael was ashamed of Bethel their con­fi­dence. 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his cho­sen young men are gone down to the slaugh­ter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 16 The calami­ty of Moab is near to come, and his af­flic­tion hasteth fast. 17 All ye that are about him, be­moan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff bro­ken, and the beau­ti­ful rod! 18 Thou daugh­ter that dost in­hab­it Di­bon, come down from thy glo­ry, and sit in thirst; for the spoil­er of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall de­stroy thy strong holds. 19 O in­hab­i­tant of Aroer, stand by the way, and es­py; ask him that fleeth, and her that es­capeth, and say, What is done? 20 Moab is con­found­ed; for it is bro­ken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, 21 And judg­ment is come upon the plain coun­try; upon Holon, and upon Ja­haz­ah, and upon Mephaath, 22 And upon Di­bon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdi­blath­aim, 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethga­mul, and upon Beth­me­on, 24 And upon Ke­rio­th, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is bro­ken, saith the LORD. 26 Make ye him drunk­en: for he mag­ni­fied himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wal­low in his vom­it, and he also shall be in de­ri­sion. 27 For was not Is­rael a de­ri­sion unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spak­est of him, thou skippedst for joy. 28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is ex­ceed­ing proud) his lofti­ness, and his ar­ro­gan­cy, and his pride, and the haugh­ti­ness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so ef­fect it. 31 There­fore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres. 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weep­ing of Jaz­er: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jaz­er: the spoil­er is fall­en upon thy sum­mer fruits and upon thy vin­tage. 33 And joy and glad­ness is tak­en from the plen­ti­ful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the wine­press­es: none shall tread with shout­ing; their shout­ing shall be no shout­ing. 34 From the cry of Hes­h­bon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Ja­haz, have they ut­tered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horon­aim, as an heifer of three years old: for the wa­ters also of Nim­rim shall be des­o­late. 35 More­over I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that of­fer­eth in the high places, and him that bur­neth in­cense to his gods. 36 There­fore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: be­cause the rich­es that he hath got­ten are per­ished. 37 For ev­ery head shall be bald, and ev­ery beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cut­tings, and upon the loins sack­cloth. 38 There shall be lamen­ta­tion gen­er­al­ly upon all the house­tops of Moab, and in the streets there­of: for I have bro­ken Moab like a ves­sel where­in is no plea­sure, saith the LORD. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it bro­ken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a de­ri­sion and a dis­may­ing to all them about him. 40 For thus saith the LORD; Be­hold, he shall fly as an ea­gle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. 41 Ke­rio­th is tak­en, and the strong holds are sur­prised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a wom­an in her pangs. 42 And Moab shall be de­stroyed from being a peo­ple, be­cause he hath mag­ni­fied himself against the LORD. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O in­hab­i­tant of Moab, saith the LORD. 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that get­teth up out of the pit shall be tak­en in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their vis­i­ta­tion, saith the LORD. 45 They that fled stood un­der the shad­ow of Hes­h­bon be­cause of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Hes­h­bon, and a flame from the midst of Si­hon, and shall de­vour the cor­ner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tu­mul­tuous ones. 46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the peo­ple of Chemosh per­isheth: for thy sons are tak­en cap­tives, and thy daugh­ters cap­tives. 47 Yet will I bring again the cap­tiv­i­ty of Moab in the lat­ter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judg­ment of Moab.