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Daughter Dibon[a] has gone up
    to the high places to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
    Moab wails.
Every head is shaved;
    every beard is shorn;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 15.2 Cn: Heb the house and Dibon

Judgment on Moab

48 Concerning Moab.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

Alas for Nebo, it is laid waste!
    Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is taken;
the fortress is put to shame and broken down;(A)

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They shall not make bald spots upon their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or make any gashes in their flesh.(A)

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18 Come down from glory
    and sit on the parched ground,
    enthroned daughter Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
    he has destroyed your strongholds.(A)

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24 Instead of perfume there will be a stench;
    and instead of a sash, a rope;
and instead of well-styled hair, baldness;
    and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth;
    instead of beauty, shame.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.24 Q ms: MT lacks shame

Moses Dies and Is Buried in the Land of Moab

34 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan,

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30 So their posterity perished
    from Heshbon[a] to Dibon,
    and we laid waste until fire spread to Medeba.”[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 21.30 Gk: Heb we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished
  2. 21.30 Compare Sam Gk: Meaning of MT uncertain

18 They shall put on sackcloth;
    horror shall cover them.
Shame shall be on all faces,
    baldness on all their heads.(A)

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37 For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.(A) 38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel that no one wants, says the Lord.(B) 39 How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all his neighbors.(C)

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31 Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the people of Kir-heres I mourn.(A)

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22 and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, 23 and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,

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Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    Ashkelon is silenced.
O remnant of Anakim![a]
    How long will you gash yourselves?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 47.5 Gk: Heb their valley

29 Cut off your hair and throw it away;
    raise a lamentation on the bare heights,[a]
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
    the generation that provoked his wrath.(A)

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  1. 7.29 Or the trails

12 On that day the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for baldness and putting on sackcloth,(A)

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12 When Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.(A)

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Therefore let Moab wail;
    let everyone wail for Moab.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
    for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.(A)

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in the streets they bind on sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.(A)

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31 Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
    melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
    and there is no straggler in its ranks.(A)

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20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped.(A)

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16 Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;(A) 17 with Heshbon, and all its towns that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,

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Pagan Practices Forbidden

14 “You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.(A)

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38 Nebo, and Baal-meon (some names being changed), and Sibmah, and they gave names to the towns that they rebuilt.

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“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon—

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27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.(A) 28 You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.(B)

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