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For the fields of Heshbon languish,
    and the vines of Sibmah,
whose clusters once made drunk
    the lords of the nations,
reached to Jazer
    and strayed to the desert;
their shoots once spread abroad
    and crossed over the sea.(A)

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Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
    their voices are heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the loins of Moab quiver;[a]
    his soul trembles.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.4 Or the armed men of Moab cry aloud

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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32 More than for Jazer I weep for you,
    O vine of Sibmah!
Your branches crossed over the sea,
    reached as far as Jazer;[a]
upon your summer fruits and your vintage
    the destroyer has fallen.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 48.32 Heb mss: MT the sea of Jazer

Now I have given all these lands into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him even the wild animals of the field to serve him.(A) All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.(B)

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The wine dries up;
    the vine languishes;
    all the merry-hearted sigh.(A)

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Therefore I weep as Jazer weeps
    for the vines of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
    O Heshbon and Elealeh,
for the shout over your fruit harvest
    and your grain harvest has ceased.(A)

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But this is not what he intends,
    nor does he have this in mind,
but it is in his heart to destroy
    and to cut off nations not a few.(A)

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21 You mountains of Gilboa,
    let there be no dew or rain upon you
    nor bounteous fields![a]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
    the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.21 Meaning of Heb uncertain

25 Their territory was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is near Rabbah,(A)

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19 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

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

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