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16 The calamity of Moab is near at hand,
    and his doom approaches swiftly.(A)

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16 “The fall of Moab is at hand;(A)
    her calamity will come quickly.

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22 Hyenas will cry in its towers
    and jackals in the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand;
    and its days will not be prolonged.(A)

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22 Hyenas(A) will inhabit her strongholds,(B)
    jackals(C) her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,(D)
    and her days will not be prolonged.(E)

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And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.(A)

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In their greed(A) these teachers will exploit you(B) with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

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28 Therefore say to them, “Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be fulfilled, says the Lord God.”(A)

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28 “Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer; whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

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23 Tell them therefore, “Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall use it no more as a proverb in Israel.” But say to them: “The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.(A)

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23 Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to put an end to this proverb, and they will no longer quote it in Israel.’ Say to them, ‘The days are near(A) when every vision will be fulfilled.(B)

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12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching[a] over my word to perform it.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 In Heb the word for almond resembles the word for watching

12 The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching[a](A) to see that my word is fulfilled.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:12 The Hebrew for watching sounds like the Hebrew for almond tree.

13 This was the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past. 14 But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”(A)

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13 This is the word the Lord has already spoken concerning Moab. 14 But now the Lord says: “Within three years,(A) as a servant bound by contract(B) would count them,(C) Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised,(D) and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”(E)

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35 for the day of vengeance[a] and recompense,
    for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
    their doom comes swiftly.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 32.35 Sam Gk: MT vengeance is mine

35 It is mine to avenge;(A) I will repay.(B)
    In due time their foot will slip;(C)
their day of disaster is near
    and their doom rushes upon them.(D)

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