KJ3 Literal Translation
Jeremiah 48
The judgment of Moab, for their pride, for their carnal confidence, and for their contempt of Jehovah and His people. The restoration of Moab.
1So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, against Moab: Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated! Kiriathaim is put to shame and captured. The fortress is put to shame and shattered.
2Moab shall not still be praised. In Heshbon they have plotted evil against it, saying, Come and let us cut it off as a nation. And you shall be silenced, O madmen; a sword will go after you,
3a voice of crying from Horonaim, plundering and great ruin!
4Moab is broken up; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5For in the ascent to Luhith, they shall go up with great weeping. For in the descent to Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of ruin.
6Flee! Save your lives, and be like a naked thing in the wilderness.
7For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be captured. And Chemosh shall go into exile; his priests and his rulers together.
8And a plunderer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape. And the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as Jehovah has spoken.
9Give wings to Moab, for it will fly, going forth; and its cities shall be a waste without one living in them.
10Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah deceitfully, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
11Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel. He has not gone into exile. On account of this his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
12So, behold, the days come, a statement of Jehovah, that I will send ones tipping to him who will tip him over, and shall empty his vessels, and break their jars in pieces.
13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of their confidence in Bethel.
14How do you say, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
15Moab is devastated, and her cities have gone up; and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughter, a statement of the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.
16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his evil doom hurries fast.
17All who are around him mourn for him, and all who know his name, say, How the strong staff is broken, the beautiful rod!
18Come down from glory and sit in thirst, one living in it, daughter in Dibon. For shall come upon you one ruining Moab; he has ruined your strongholds.
19Stand by the way and watch, one living in Aroer. Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, What has happened?
20Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered. Wail and cry! Declare it in Arnon that Moab is ruined.
21And judgment has come to the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahazah, and on Mephaath,
22and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim,
23and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,
24and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.
25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, a statement of Jehovah.
26Make Him drunk, for he magnified himself against Jehovah. Moab also shall fall with a splash in his vomit, and he shall be a mockery, even he.
27For was not Israel a mockery to you? Was he found among thieves? For ever since you spoke of him, you shook yourself.
28Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, ones living in Moab, and be like the dove who makes her nest in the sides of the mouth of the pit.
29We have heard the pride of Moab, he is exceeding proud; his haughtiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and his elevated heart.
30I have known, a statement of Jehovah, his wrath, and it is not so; his empty talking, they have not done so.
31Therefore I will wail for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab, and he shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres.
32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you more than the weeping of Jazer. Your tendrils have crossed the sea; they reach to the sea of Jazer. One devastating has fallen on your harvest, and on your grape crop.
33And joy and gladness is taken from the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to cease from the wine-presses. None shall tread the grapes with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
34From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh, to Jahaz, they have given their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, like a heifer three years old. For the waters of Nimrim also shall be desolate.
35Also I will cause him who offers in the high places to cease in Moab, a statement of Jehovah, and he who burns incense to his gods.
36Therefore, My heart shall mourn for Moab like flutes; and My heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kir-heres, because the riches that he has gotten have perished.
37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and sackcloth on the loins.
38On all Moab's housetops, and in its streets is wailing for all. For I have broken Moab like a vessel; no pleasure is in it, a statement of Jehovah.
39They shall howl, saying, How it is broken down! How has Moab turned his back in shame! And Moab shall be a mockery, and a terror to all those around him.
40For so says Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly like an eagle, and shall spread his wings toward Moab.
41Kerioth is captured, and the strongholds are seized. And the mighty men's hearts in Moab shall be at that day like the heart of a woman being distressed.
42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Jehovah.
43Dread, and the pit, and the snare, shall be on you, O one living in Moab, a statement of Jehovah.
44He who flees from the dread shall fall into the pit. And he who goes up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring it on Moab, the year of their calling to account, a statement of Jehovah.
45Those who fled stood powerless in the shadow of Heshbon, for a fire shall go out of Heshbon, and a flame out of the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the sons of tumult.
46Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished. For your sons are taken away into exile, and your daughters into exile.
47But I will restore the prisoners of Moab in the end of the days, a statement of Jehovah. So far is the judgment of Moab.
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