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16 “The disaster of Moab will (A)soon come,
And his calamity has quickly hastened.
17 Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
Even all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How has the strong [a](B)scepter been broken,
A staff of beauty!’
18 (C)Come down from your glory
And inhabit [b]the parched ground,
O inhabitant of the (D)daughter of (E)Dibon;
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:17 Or rod
  2. Jeremiah 48:18 Lit in thirst