Jeremiah 47-48

New American Standard Bible

Prophecy against Philistia

47 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the ^(A)Philistines, before Pharaoh ^[a]conquered ^(B)Gaza. ²This is what the Lord says:

“Behold, waters are going to rise from ^(C)the north
And become an overflowing torrent,
And ^(D)overflow the land and everything that is in it,
The city and those who live in it;
And the people will ^(E)cry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will wail.
³Because of the noise of the ^[b]^(F)galloping hoofs of his ^[c]stallions,
The roar of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not turned back for their children,
Because of the debility of their hands,
⁴Because of the day that is coming
To ^(G)destroy all the Philistines,
To eliminate from ^(H)Tyre and Sidon
Every surviving ally;
For the Lord is going to destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of ^(I)Caphtor.
⁵^(J)Baldness has come upon Gaza;
^(K)Ashkelon has been destroyed.
Remnant of their valley,
How long will you ^(L)gash yourself?
⁶Ah, ^(M)sword of the Lord,
How long will you not be quiet?
Withdraw into your sheath;
Rest and stay still.
⁷How can ^[d]it be quiet,
When the Lord has ^(N)given it an order?
Against Ashkelon and against the sea shore—
There He has ^(O)summoned it.”

Prophecy against Moab

48 Concerning ^(P)Moab. This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says:

“Woe to ^(Q)Nebo, for it has been destroyed;
^(R)Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The high stronghold has been put to shame and ^[e]shattered.
²There is no longer praise for Moab;
In ^(S)Heshbon they have devised disaster against her:
‘Come and let’s cut her off from being a nation!’
You too, ^[f]Madmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow you.
³The sound of an outcry from ^(T)Horonaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’
⁴Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.
⁵For they will go up by the ascent of ^(U)Luhith
With continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the ^[g]anguished cry of destruction.
⁶^(V)Flee, save yourselves,
So that you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
⁷For because of your ^(W)trust in your own achievements and treasures,
You yourself will also be captured;
And ^(X)Chemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his leaders.
⁸A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the ^(Y)plateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.
⁹Give ^[h]^(Z)wings to Moab,
For she will ^[i]flee away;
And her cities will become a ^(AA)desolation,
Without inhabitants in them.
¹⁰^(AB)Cursed is the one who does the Lord’s work ^(AC)negligently,
And cursed is the one who restrains his ^(AD)sword from blood.

¹¹“Moab has been ^(AE)at ease since his youth;
He has also been ^(AF)peaceful, like wine on ^[j]its dregs,
And he has not been ^(AG)poured from vessel to vessel,
Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore ^[k]he retains his flavor,
And his aroma has not changed.

¹²Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will pour out his vessels and smash ^[l]his jars. ¹³And Moab will be ^(AH)ashamed of ^(AI)Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed of ^(AJ)Bethel, their confidence.

¹⁴How can you say, ‘We are ^(AK)warriors,
And men competent for battle’?
¹⁵Moab has been destroyed and ^[m]men have gone up to ^[n]his cities;
His choicest ^[o]^(AL)young men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the ^(AM)King, whose name is the Lord of armies.
¹⁶“The disaster of Moab will ^(AN)soon come,
And his catastrophe has hurried quickly.
¹⁷Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
And all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How the mighty ^[p]^(AO)scepter has been broken,
A staff of splendor!’
¹⁸^(AP)Come down from your glory
And sit on the parched ground,
O ^(AQ)daughter living in ^(AR)Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.
¹⁹Stand by the road and keep watch,
You inhabitant of ^(AS)Aroer;
^(AT)Ask him who flees and her who escapes
And say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰Moab has been put to shame, for it has been ^[q]shattered.
Wail and cry out;
Declare by the ^(AU)Arnon
That Moab has been destroyed.

²¹“Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, ^(AV)Jahzah, and against ^(AW)Mephaath, ²²against Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, ²³against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and ^(AX)Beth-meon, ²⁴against ^(AY)Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. ²⁵The ^(AZ)horn of Moab has been cut off, and his ^(BA)arm broken,” declares the Lord. ²⁶“^(BB)Make him drunk, for he has ^[r]become ^(BC)arrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will ^[s]vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock. ²⁷Now was Israel not a ^(BD)laughingstock to you? Or was he ^[t]^(BE)caught among thieves? For whenever you speak about him you ^(BF)shake your head in scorn.

²⁸Leave the cities and live among the ^(BG)rocky cliffs,
You inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a ^(BH)dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
²⁹^(BI)We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—
Of his haughtiness, his ^(BJ)pride, his arrogance, and ^[u]his self-exaltation.
³⁰I know his ^(BK)fury,” declares the Lord,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.
³¹Therefore I will ^(BL)wail for Moab,
For all of Moab I will cry out;
^[v]I will moan for the men of ^(BM)Kir-heres.
³²More than the ^(BN)weeping for ^(BO)Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen.
³³So ^(BP)joy and rejoicing are removed
From the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab.
And I have ^(BQ)eliminated the wine from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

³⁴^(BR)From the outcry at Heshbon to ^(BS)Elealeh, to Jahaz they have ^[w]raised their voice, from ^(BT)Zoar to Horonaim, and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate. ³⁵And I will put an end to Moab,” declares the Lord, “the one who offers sacrifice on the ^(BU)high place and the one who ^[x]^(BV)burns incense to his gods.

³⁶“Therefore My ^(BW)heart makes a sound like flutes for Moab; My heart also makes a sound like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have ^(BX)lost the abundance it produced. ³⁷For ^(BY)every head is shaved bald, and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands, and ^(BZ)sackcloth around the waists. ³⁸On all the ^(CA)housetops of Moab and in its public squares ^[y]there is mourning everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable ^(CB)vessel,” declares the Lord. ³⁹“How ^[z]shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an ^(CC)object of terror to all around him.”

⁴⁰For this is what the Lord says:
“Behold, one will ^(CD)fly swiftly like an eagle
And ^(CE)spread out his wings against Moab.
⁴¹Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the ^(CF)hearts of the warriors of Moab on that day
Will be like the heart of a ^(CG)woman in labor.
⁴²Moab will be ^(CH)destroyed from being a people
Because he has ^[aa]become ^(CI)arrogant toward the Lord.
⁴³^(CJ)Terror, pit, and snare are coming upon you,
Inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.
⁴⁴“The one who ^(CK)flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I will bring upon her, upon Moab,
The year of their ^(CL)punishment,” declares the Lord.

⁴⁵“In the shadow of Heshbon
The fugitives stand without strength;
For a fire has spread out from Heshbon
And a ^(CM)flame from the midst of ^(CN)Sihon,
And it has devoured the ^(CO)forehead of Moab
And the scalps of the ^[ab]loud revelers.
⁴⁶^(CP)Woe to you, Moab!
The people of ^(CQ)Chemosh have perished;
For your sons have been taken away captive,
And your daughters into captivity.
⁴⁷Yet I will ^(CR)restore the fortunes of Moab
In the ^[ac]latter days,” declares the Lord.

This is the extent of the judgment on Moab.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 47:1 Lit struck
Jeremiah 47:3 Lit stamping of the
Jeremiah 47:3 Lit mighty ones
Jeremiah 47:7 Lit you
Jeremiah 48:1 Or dismayed
Jeremiah 48:2 Heb Madmen; i.e., a city of Moab
Jeremiah 48:5 Lit distresses of outcry
Jeremiah 48:9 Or salt
Jeremiah 48:9 Or fall in ruins
Jeremiah 48:11 Lit his
Jeremiah 48:11 Lit his flavor has stayed in him
Jeremiah 48:12 Lit their
Jeremiah 48:15 Lit one has
Jeremiah 48:15 Lit her
Jeremiah 48:15 I.e., warriors
Jeremiah 48:17 Or rod
Jeremiah 48:20 Or dismayed
Jeremiah 48:26 Or magnified himself against
Jeremiah 48:26 Lit vomit in his vomit
Jeremiah 48:27 Or found
Jeremiah 48:29 Lit elevation of his heart
Jeremiah 48:31 Another reading is He
Jeremiah 48:34 Lit given forth
Jeremiah 48:35 Or offers up in smoke
Jeremiah 48:38 Lit all of it is mourning
Jeremiah 48:39 Or terrified
Jeremiah 48:42 Or magnified himself against
Jeremiah 48:45 Lit sons of uproar
Jeremiah 48:47 Lit end of the days

1 Corinthians 7

New American Standard Bible

Teaching on Marriage

7 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is ^(A)good for a man ^[a]not to touch a woman. ²But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. ³The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband. ⁴The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵^[b]^(B)Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and ^[c]come together again so that ^(C)Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ⁶But this I say by way of concession, ^(D)not of command. ⁷^[d]Yet I wish that all ^[e]men were ^(E)even as I myself am. However, ^(F)each has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another in that.

⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is ^(G)good for them if they remain ^(H)even as I. ⁹But if they do not have self-control, ^(I)let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

¹⁰But to the married I give instructions, ^(J)not I, but the Lord, that the wife is not to leave her husband ¹¹(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband is not to ^[f]divorce his wife.

¹²But to the rest ^(K)I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, he must not ^[g]divorce her. ¹³And ^[h]if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not ^[i]divorce her husband. ¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through ^[j]her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are ^(L)holy. ¹⁵Yet if the unbelieving one is leaving, ^[k]let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called ^[l]us ^(M)in peace. ¹⁶For how do you know, wife, whether you will ^(N)save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

¹⁷Only, ^(O)as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this way let him walk. And ^(P)so I direct in ^(Q)all the churches. ¹⁸Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? ^(R)He is not to be circumcised. ¹⁹^(S)Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is ^(T)the keeping of the commandments of God. ²⁰^(U)Each person is to remain in that ^[m]state in which he was called.

²¹Were you called as a slave? Do not let it concern you. But if you are also able to become free, take advantage of that. ²²For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave, is ^(V)the Lord’s freed person; likewise the one who was called as free, is ^(W)Christ’s slave. ²³^(X)You were bought for a price; do not become slaves of people. ²⁴Brothers and sisters, ^(Y)each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

²⁵Now concerning virgins, I have ^(Z)no command of the Lord, but I am offering direction as one who ^[n]^(AA)by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. ²⁶I think, then, that this is good in view of the ^[o]present ^(AB)distress, that ^(AC)it is good for a man ^[p]to remain as he is. ²⁷Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people as yourselves will have ^[q]trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you. ²⁹But this I say, brothers, ^(AD)the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none; ³⁰and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess; ³¹and those who use the world, as though they did not ^(AE)make full use of it; for ^(AF)the present form of this world is passing away.

³²But I want you to be free from concern. One who is ^(AG)unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; ³³but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, ³⁴and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. ³⁵I say this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but ^[r]to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

³⁶But if anyone thinks that he is acting dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is ^[s]past her youth and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he is not sinning; let ^[t]them marry. ³⁷But the one who stands firm in his heart, ^[u]if he is not under constraint, but has authority ^[v]over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well. ³⁸So then, both the one who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.

³⁹^(AH)A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband ^[w]dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only ^(AI)in the Lord. ⁴⁰But ^(AJ)in my opinion she is ^[x]happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.