12 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his[a] jars in pieces.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:12 Septuagint, Aquila; Hebrew their

For (A)the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob
    as the majesty of Israel,
for plunderers have plundered them
    and (B)ruined their branches.

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therefore (A)I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, (B)Beth-jeshimoth, (C)Baal-meon, and (D)Kiriathaim. 10 I will give it (E)along with the Ammonites (F)to the people of the East as a possession, (G)that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,

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38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like (A)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord.

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14 and its breaking is (A)like that of a potter's vessel
    that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
    with which to take fire from the hearth,
    or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

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You shall (A)break[a] them with (B)a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like (C)a potter's vessel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 2:9 Revocalization yields (compare Septuagint) You shall rule

15 The destroyer of (A)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have (B)gone down to slaughter,
    declares (C)the King, (D)whose name is the Lord of hosts.

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11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth
    and has (A)settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
    nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
    and his scent is not changed.

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(A)The destroyer shall come upon every city,
    and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
    and (B)the plain shall be destroyed,
    as the Lord has spoken.

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34 (A)“Wail, (B)you shepherds, and cry out,
    (C)and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
    and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

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(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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10 “Then (A)you shall break (B)the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,

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Her nobles send their servants for water;
    they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
    they return with their vessels empty;
they are (A)ashamed and confounded
    and (B)cover their heads.

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Like fleeing birds,
    like a scattered nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
    at (A)the fords of the Arnon.

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