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Jeremiah Chapter 48

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 48

1Of Moab. "Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
Jeremiah 48:22, Jeremiah 48:23, Numbers 32:37, Numbers 32:38, Numbers 32:3
2The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: "Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation." You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
Isaiah 16:14, Numbers 32:37, Jeremiah 31:36, Isaiah 16:14, Numbers 32:37
3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, "desolation and great destruction!"
Isaiah 15:5, Isaiah 15:5, Jeremiah 48:34, Jeremiah 48:34, Jeremiah 48:5
4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Numbers 21:27, Numbers 21:30, Psalms 137:9, Esther 8:11, Numbers 21:27
5For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
Isaiah 15:5, Isaiah 15:5
6"Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness."
Jeremiah 17:6, Jeremiah 17:6, Jeremiah 51:6, Job 30:3, Job 30:7
7For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Numbers 21:29, Numbers 21:29, Jeremiah 49:3, Jeremiah 9:23, Psalms 52:7
8The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as the Lord has spoken.
Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 6:26, Joshua 13:21, Joshua 13:9, Joshua 13:17
9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.'
Isaiah 16:2, Psalms 11:1, Jeremiah 48:28, Isaiah 16:2, Psalms 11:1
10Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
1 Kings 20:42, 1 Kings 20:42, 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:3, Judges 5:23
11'Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
Zephaniah 1:12, Zephaniah 1:12, Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 1:15, Jeremiah 48:29
12Therefore behold, the days come,' says the Lord, 'that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
Nahum 2:2, Nahum 2:2, Isaiah 30:14, Jeremiah 48:38, Ezekiel 25:9
13Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
Hosea 8:5, Hosea 8:6, Judges 11:24, Jeremiah 48:39, Isaiah 45:16
14How can you say, "We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?"
Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:16, Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:16
15Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,' says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 51:57
16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
Isaiah 13:22, Isaiah 13:22, 2 Peter 2:3, Ezekiel 12:28, Jeremiah 1:12
17All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, "How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!"
Isaiah 9:4, Isaiah 9:4, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:20, Zechariah 11:10
18You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
Numbers 21:30, Isaiah 47:1, Numbers 21:30, Isaiah 47:1, Isaiah 15:2
19Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, "What has been done?"
Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 2:36, 1 Samuel 4:16, 1 Samuel 4:16, 1 Samuel 4:13
20"Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste."
Isaiah 16:2, Isaiah 16:2, Isaiah 16:7, Isaiah 16:11, Isaiah 15:8
21Judgment has come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,
Joshua 13:18, Joshua 13:18, Isaiah 15:4, Isaiah 15:4, Numbers 21:23
22and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth Diblathaim,
Numbers 33:46, Jeremiah 48:18, Numbers 33:46, Jeremiah 48:18, Jeremiah 48:1
23and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on Beth Meon,
Joshua 13:17, Joshua 13:17, Jeremiah 48:1, Jeremiah 48:1, Numbers 32:38
24and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
Amos 2:2, Amos 2:2, Jeremiah 48:41, Jeremiah 48:41, Zephaniah 2:8
25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,' says the Lord.
Psalms 75:10, Psalms 75:10, Psalms 10:15, Psalms 10:15, Job 22:9
26'Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Isaiah 19:14, Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 48:42, Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 19:14
27For wasn't Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
Jeremiah 2:26, Jeremiah 2:26, Micah 7:8, Micah 7:10, Micah 7:8
28You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
Judges 6:2, Psalms 55:6, Psalms 55:7, Song of Solomon 2:14, Judges 6:2
29We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Isaiah 16:6, Isaiah 16:6, Psalms 138:6, Psalms 138:6, Proverbs 30:13
30I know his wrath,' says the Lord, 'that it is nothing; his boastings have worked nothing.
Jeremiah 50:36, Jeremiah 50:36, Isaiah 16:6, Psalms 33:10, Job 9:12
31Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.
Isaiah 15:5, 2 Kings 3:25, Isaiah 15:5, 2 Kings 3:25, Jeremiah 48:36
32With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9, Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9, Numbers 21:32
33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.
Haggai 2:16, Isaiah 5:10, Haggai 2:16, Isaiah 5:10, Isaiah 32:9
34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
Isaiah 15:4, Isaiah 15:6, Isaiah 15:4, Isaiah 15:6, Numbers 32:3
35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,' says the Lord, 'him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
Isaiah 16:12, Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 16:12, Isaiah 15:2, Numbers 28:14
36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.
Isaiah 15:7, Isaiah 15:7, Isaiah 16:11, Isaiah 16:11, Isaiah 15:5
37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
Jeremiah 47:5, Jeremiah 41:5, Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 15:3, Genesis 37:34
38On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights,' says the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:28, Jeremiah 22:28, Jeremiah 25:34, Isaiah 22:1, Jeremiah 25:34
39How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has turned the back with shame! So shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.'
Lamentations 1:1, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 18:10, Revelation 18:15, Revelation 18:16
40For thus says the Lord: 'Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
Deuteronomy 28:49, Isaiah 8:8, Deuteronomy 28:49, Isaiah 8:8, Jeremiah 49:22
41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Isaiah 13:8, Isaiah 21:3, Isaiah 13:8, Isaiah 21:3, Jeremiah 30:6
42Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.
Jeremiah 48:2, Jeremiah 48:2, Isaiah 7:8, Isaiah 37:23, Isaiah 7:8
43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says the Lord.
Lamentations 3:47, Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Lamentations 3:47, Isaiah 24:17
44He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,' says the Lord.
Jeremiah 11:23, 1 Kings 19:17, Jeremiah 11:23, 1 Kings 19:17, Amos 5:19
45'Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Numbers 24:17, Numbers 24:17, Numbers 21:28, Numbers 21:28, Numbers 21:21
46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
Numbers 21:29, Numbers 21:29, 1 Kings 11:7, Jeremiah 48:13, Judges 11:24
47Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days,' says the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab."
Jeremiah 49:6, Jeremiah 49:39, Jeremiah 49:6, Jeremiah 49:39, Jeremiah 46:26

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