the renown of Moab is no more.
In (A)Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
    ‘Come, let us cut her off (B)from being a nation!’
You also, O (C)Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
    the sword shall pursue you.

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Moab will be praised(A) no more;
    in Heshbon[a](B) people will plot her downfall:
    ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’(C)
You, the people of Madmen,[b] will also be silenced;
    the sword will pursue you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:2 The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
  2. Jeremiah 48:2 The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.

They (A)said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

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They said in their hearts, “We will crush(A) them completely!”
    They burned(B) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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But he disdained[a] to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy[b] all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:6 Hebrew disdained in his eyes
  2. Esther 3:6 Or annihilate

Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way(A) to destroy(B) all Mordecai’s people, the Jews,(C) throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.

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