Jeremiah 48:36-47

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³⁶Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of ^(A)Kir-hareseth. ^(B)Therefore the riches they gained have perished.

³⁷^(C)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. ^(D)On all the hands are gashes, and ^(E)around the waist is sackcloth. ³⁸On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like ^(F)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. ³⁹How it is broken! How they wail! ^(G)How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab ^(H)has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”

⁴⁰For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^(I)one shall fly swiftly like an eagle
    ^(J)and spread his wings against Moab;
⁴¹^(K)the cities shall be taken
    and the strongholds seized.
^(L)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
    like the heart of ^(M)a woman in her birth pains;
⁴²Moab shall be ^(N)destroyed and be no longer a people,
    because ^(O)he magnified himself against the Lord.
⁴³^(P)Terror, pit, and snare
    are before you, O inhabitant of Moab!
declares the Lord.
⁴⁴He who flees from the terror
    shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
    shall be caught in the snare.
^(Q)For I will bring these things upon Moab,
    the year of their punishment,
declares the Lord.

⁴⁵“In the shadow of Heshbon
    fugitives stop without strength,
for fire came out from Heshbon,
    flame from the house of Sihon;
it has destroyed ^(R)the forehead of Moab,
    the crown of ^(S)the sons of tumult.
⁴⁶^(T)Woe to you, O Moab!
    The people of ^(U)Chemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
    and your daughters into captivity.
⁴⁷^(V)Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
    in the latter days, declares the Lord.”
Thus far is the judgment on Moab.