Jeremiah 48
The Lord's message about Moab
‘Nebo city is in
It will soon become a
The people of Kiriathaim city will be ashamed.
Its enemies will take it for themselves.
They will knock down its strong buildings,
and its people will be ashamed.
In Heshbon, Moab's enemies will decide how to destroy the
They will say, “We must completely destroy Moab!”
The town of Madmen will become silent,
as a great army chases out the people.
because a strong army is destroying them.
Its children will cry loudly.
They will weep as they go.
As they go down the road towards Horonaim,
they will cry about their town that the enemy is destroying.
Go and live in the
Because of that, your enemies will catch you.
They will even take your god Chemosh away as
together with his
No town or city will
The enemy will destroy every place in the valley,
and every place on the high ground.
They will become
I, the Lord, tell you this!
Its land will become like a
Its cities will become heaps of stones.
Nobody will live in them.’
Moab's peace will come to an end
“We are brave soldiers who know how to fight.”
The enemy will soon destroy Moab and its cities.
They will kill its strongest young men.
Terrible trouble will quickly destroy it.
you know how famous it has been.
But now you must weep for it.
Say, “Moab's
They no longer have great power to rule!”
Come down from the places where people give you honour.
Sit on the ground in the dirt.
Moab's cruel enemy has arrived.
They will cause your strong buildings to become heaps of stones.
stand beside the road and watch.
Ask the people who are running away what has happened.
and its people are ashamed.
So weep and cry out!
Stand beside the Arnon river and tell the news.
Tell people that the enemy has destroyed Moab.”
He will punish all the towns of Moab, near or far away.
That is what the Lord says.
So my anger will make him like a person who is drunk.
He will lie down in the place where he has been sick.
People will
Why did you
You said that they were no better than a group of robbers.
Go and live among the rocks.
Live like
They think that they are better than everyone else.
We know how much they
‘I know about Moab's proud thoughts.
But their
Whatever they do, it will be
I weep for the people of Kir-Heres.
The branches of those vines reached across the sea as far as Jazer.
But the cruel enemy will destroy all the fruit that grows on your vines and trees.
I will stop them making
They will not stamp on their grapes and shout with
Instead, the shouts will be shouts about trouble.
The noise reaches as far as Jahaz.
It reaches from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-Shelishiyah.
Even the Nimrim river has become dry.’
‘I will remove the people of Moab who
They offer
and they burn
I weep like a
I am sad for the people of Kir-Heres,
because all their
They will cut the hair off their heads and their faces.
They will use knives to cut their hands.
They will wear
They are standing in the streets.
They are all crying and weeping.
They are sad because I have destroyed Moab.
I have broken it in pieces, like a jar that I no longer want.’
That is what the Lord says.
Its people will weep with loud voices.
They will turn away because they are ashamed.
All the
They will see the
‘Look at the enemy that suddenly arrives!
It comes like an
Moab's soldiers will be afraid,
like a woman who will soon give birth.
So they will no longer be a nation.’
‘People of Moab, there will be danger, deep holes and
And a trap will catch anyone who climbs out of the deep hole.
Yes, the time will soon come when I will
They will be
the city where King Sihon once ruled.
It will burn as far as Moab's borders.
It will destroy those
The enemy will destroy you people who
They will take away your sons and your daughters.
They will take them as
That is what the Lord says.
That is the end of the Lord's message against Moab.