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    Jeremiah 48

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    Moab is first left to settle like wine on its dregs, and then poured out, jar by jar, until even its aroma has become a memory.

    The wine that was never movedvv. 1–13

    The word opens with cities falling in a brisk catalogue: Nebo, Kiriathaim, Heshbon, Horonaim. Moab’s little ones cry out, the roads carry tears, and the advice is wonderfully stark: flee, and become like a juniper in the desert. The reason given is confidence in works and treasures; even Chemosh is carried off with his priests and officials. Then comes the household image that makes the whole calamity oddly tangible. Moab has sat undisturbed from youth, like wine on its dregs, never poured from vessel to vessel. His flavour and aroma have stayed the same. Now wanderers will do the pouring, emptying vessels and smashing jars; and Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as Israel was ashamed after trusting in Bethel.

    The mighty scepter in the dustvv. 14–33

    The boast of being warriors does not survive contact with the sentence that follows: the towns are invaded and the best young men go down in slaughter. Around Moab, mourners are invited to report the ruin of the glorious staff. Dibon is told to come down from glory and sit on parched ground, while Aroer watches the road and questions the fugitives. The towns then pass before the reader in a procession of judgment. Moab is made drunk, wallows in its own vomit, and becomes a laughingstock—an imperial collapse with remarkably poor table manners. Yet the voice also weeps: for Moab, for Kir-heres, and for the vine of Sibmah, whose tendrils once reached to Jazer and the sea. The presses are silent, and joy has been removed from orchard and field.

    The trap after the pitvv. 34–47

    The mourning spreads from Heshbon to Elealeh, from Jahaz to Zoar and Horonaim; even the waters of Nimrim have dried up. Heads are shaved, beards clipped, hands gashed, and sackcloth appears on every waist. Moab has been shattered like an unwanted jar, a return to the earlier wine imagery with none of its former refinement. Then the destroyer arrives like an eagle, the strongholds are seized, and the warrior’s heart becomes like the heart of a woman in labor. Escape offers no neat exit: panic leads to a pit, and the pit to a snare. The sons and daughters go into exile, but the final line leaves the door ajar—Moab will be restored from captivity in the latter days.

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    1. Jer 48:1Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.

    2. Jer 48:2There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

    3. Jer 48:3A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

    4. Jer 48:4Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.

    5. Jer 48:5For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

    6. Jer 48:6‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’

    7. Jer 48:7Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.

    8. Jer 48:8The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.

    9. Jer 48:9Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.

    10. Jer 48:10Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

    11. Jer 48:11Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

    12. Jer 48:12Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

    13. Jer 48:13Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

    14. Jer 48:14How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?

    15. Jer 48:15Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

    16. Jer 48:16Moab’s calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.

    17. Jer 48:17Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!

    18. Jer 48:18Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

    19. Jer 48:19Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’

    20. Jer 48:20Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

    21. Jer 48:21Judgment has come upon the high plain—upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

    22. Jer 48:22upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

    23. Jer 48:23upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,

    24. Jer 48:24upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of Moab, those far and near.

    25. Jer 48:25The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.

    26. Jer 48:26“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

    27. Jer 48:27Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

    28. Jer 48:28Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.

    29. Jer 48:29We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.

    30. Jer 48:30I know his insolence,” declares the LORD, “but it is futile. His boasting is as empty as his deeds.

    31. Jer 48:31Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

    32. Jer 48:32I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah, more than I weep for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they reach even to Jazer. The destroyer has descended on your summer fruit and grape harvest.

    33. Jer 48:33Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.

    34. Jer 48:34There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

    35. Jer 48:35In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.

    36. Jer 48:36Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.

    37. Jer 48:37For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

    38. Jer 48:38On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

    39. Jer 48:39“How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”

    40. Jer 48:40For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.

    41. Jer 48:41Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

    42. Jer 48:42Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.

    43. Jer 48:43Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.

    44. Jer 48:44“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

    45. Jer 48:45“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.

    46. Jer 48:46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.

    47. Jer 48:47Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

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    • 101 Samuel 15:3Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
    • 101 Kings 20:42And the prophet said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, your life will be exchanged for his life, and your people for his people.’”
    • 10Judges 5:23‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
    • 101 Samuel 15:9Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
    • 11Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
    • 102 Kings 13:19But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
    • 10Numbers 31:14–18But Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who were returning from the battle.
    • 10Jeremiah 50:25The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
    • 3Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
    • 7Numbers 21:29Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
    • 10Jeremiah 47:6‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’
    • 101 Samuel 15:13–35When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
    • 11Jeremiah 48:29We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
    • 11Zechariah 1:15but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
    • 15Jeremiah 46:18As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
    • 15Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.

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