Jeremiah 48

English Standard Version

Judgment on Moab

48 ^(A)Concerning Moab.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

“Woe to ^(B)Nebo, for it is laid waste!
    ^(C)Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;
the fortress is put to shame ^(D)and broken down;
²    the renown of Moab is no more.
In ^(E)Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
    ‘Come, let us cut her off ^(F)from being a nation!’
You also, O ^(G)Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
    the sword shall pursue you.

³“A voice! A cry from ^(H)Horonaim,
    ‘Desolation and great destruction!’
⁴Moab is destroyed;
    her little ones have made a cry.
⁵^(I)For at the ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;^[a]
for ^(J)at the descent of Horonaim
    they have heard the distressed cry^[b] of destruction.
⁶Flee! Save yourselves!
    You will be like ^(K)a juniper in the desert!
⁷For, ^(L)because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
    you also shall be taken;
and ^(M)Chemosh ^(N)shall go into exile
    with ^(O)his priests and his officials.
⁸^(P)The destroyer shall come upon every city,
    and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
    and ^(Q)the plain shall be destroyed,
    as the Lord has spoken.

⁹“Give wings to Moab,
for she would fly away;
her cities shall become a desolation,
with no inhabitant in them.

¹⁰^(R)“Cursed is he who does ^(S)the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

¹¹“Moab has been at ease from his youth
    and has ^(T)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.

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^[c] jars in pieces. ¹³Then ^(U)Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as ^(V)the house of Israel was ashamed of ^(W)Bethel, their confidence.

¹⁴“How do you say, ‘We are heroes
    and mighty men of war’?
¹⁵The destroyer of ^(X)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have ^(Y)gone down to slaughter,
    declares ^(Z)the King, ^(AA)whose name is the Lord of hosts.
¹⁶The calamity of Moab is near at hand,
    and his affliction hastens swiftly.
¹⁷^(AB)Grieve for him, all you who are around him,
    and all who know his name;
say, ^(AC)‘How the mighty scepter is broken,
    the glorious staff.’

¹⁸^(AD)“Come down from your glory,
    and sit on the parched ground,
    O inhabitant of ^(AE)Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
    he has destroyed your strongholds.
¹⁹^(AF)Stand by the way ^(AG)and watch,
    O inhabitant of ^(AH)Aroer!
Ask him who flees and her who escapes;
    say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
    ^(AI)wail and cry!
Tell it beside ^(AJ)the Arnon,
    that ^(AK)Moab is laid waste.

²¹“Judgment has come upon ^(AL)the tableland, upon Holon, and ^(AM)Jahzah, and Mephaath, ²²and ^(AN)Dibon, and ^(AO)Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, ²³and ^(AP)Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and ^(AQ)Beth-meon, ²⁴and ^(AR)Kerioth, and ^(AS)Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. ²⁵^(AT)The horn of Moab is cut off, and ^(AU)his arm is broken, declares the Lord.

²⁶^(AV)“Make him drunk, ^(AW)because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall ^(AX)wallow in his vomit, ^(AY)and he too shall be held in derision. ²⁷^(AZ)Was not Israel a derision to you? ^(BA)Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him ^(BB)you wagged your head?

²⁸^(BC)“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
    O inhabitants of Moab!
Be ^(BD)like the dove that nests
    in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
²⁹^(BE)We have heard of the pride of Moab—
    he is very proud—
of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance,
    and the haughtiness of his heart.
³⁰I know his insolence, declares the Lord;
    ^(BF)his boasts are false,
    his deeds are false.
³¹^(BG)Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the men of ^(BH)Kir-hareseth I mourn.
³²More than for ^(BI)Jazer I weep for you,
    ^(BJ)O vine of ^(BK)Sibmah!
^(BL)Your branches passed over the sea,
    reached to the Sea of ^(BM)Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
    the destroyer has fallen.
³³^(BN)Gladness and joy have been taken away
    from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have made the wine cease from the winepresses;
    no one treads them with shouts of joy;
    the shouting is not the shout of joy.

³⁴^(BO)“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to ^(BP)Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate. ³⁵And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in ^(BQ)the high place and makes offerings to his god. ³⁶Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of ^(BR)Kir-hareseth. ^(BS)Therefore the riches they gained have perished.

³⁷^(BT)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. ^(BU)On all the hands are gashes, and ^(BV)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 ^(BW)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. ³⁹How it is broken! How they wail! ^(BX)How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab ^(BY)has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”

⁴⁰For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, ^(BZ)one shall fly swiftly like an eagle
    ^(CA)and spread his wings against Moab;
⁴¹^(CB)the cities shall be taken
    and the strongholds seized.
^(CC)The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day
    like the heart of ^(CD)a woman in her birth pains;
⁴²Moab shall be ^(CE)destroyed and be no longer a people,
    because ^(CF)he magnified himself against the Lord.
⁴³^(CG)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.
^(CH)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 ^(CI)the forehead of Moab,
    the crown of ^(CJ)the sons of tumult.
⁴⁶^(CK)Woe to you, O Moab!
    The people of ^(CL)Chemosh are undone,
for your sons have been taken captive,
    and your daughters into captivity.
⁴⁷^(CM)Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
    in the latter days, declares the Lord.”
Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

Footnotes

Jeremiah 48:5 Hebrew weeping goes up with weeping
Jeremiah 48:5 Septuagint (compare Isaiah 15:5) heard the cry
Jeremiah 48:12 Septuagint, Aquila; Hebrew their

John 20

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The Resurrection

20 ^(A)Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that ^(B)the stone had been taken away from the tomb. ²So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, ^(C)the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and ^(D)we do not know where they have laid him.” ³^(E)So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. ⁴Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. ⁵And stooping to look in, he saw ^(F)the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. ⁶Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, ⁷and ^(G)the face cloth, which had been on Jesus'^[a] head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. ⁸Then the other disciple, ^(H)who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; ⁹for as yet ^(I)they did not understand the Scripture, ^(J)that he must rise from the dead. ¹⁰Then the disciples went back to their homes.

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

¹¹But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. ¹²And ^(K)she saw ^(L)two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. ¹³They said to her, ^(M)“Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, ^(N)“They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” ¹⁴Having said this, she turned around and ^(O)saw Jesus standing, ^(P)but she did not know that it was Jesus. ¹⁵Jesus said to her, ^(Q)“Woman, why are you weeping? ^(R)Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be ^(S)the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” ¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic,^[b] ^(T)“Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). ¹⁷Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to ^(U)my brothers and say to them, ^(V)‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to ^(W)my God and your God.’” ¹⁸Mary Magdalene ^(X)went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

¹⁹^(Y)On the evening ^(Z)of that day, the first day of the week, ^(AA)the doors being locked where the disciples were ^(AB)for fear of the Jews,^[c] Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, ^(AC)“Peace be with you.” ²⁰When he had said this, ^(AD)he showed them his hands and his side. Then ^(AE)the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. ²¹Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As ^(AF)the Father has sent me, ^(AG)even so I am sending you.” ²²And when he had said this, he ^(AH)breathed on them and said to them, ^(AI)“Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³^(AJ)If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

Jesus and Thomas

²⁴Now ^(AK)Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin,^[d] was not with them when Jesus came. ²⁵So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, ^(AL)“Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”

²⁶Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. ^(AM)Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ^(AN)“Peace be with you.” ²⁷Then he said to Thomas, ^(AO)“Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” ²⁸Thomas answered him, ^(AP)“My Lord and my God!” ²⁹Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? ^(AQ)Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

The Purpose of This Book

³⁰^(AR)Now Jesus did many other signs ^(AS)in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; ³¹^(AT)but these are written so that you may ^(AU)believe that Jesus is the Christ, ^(AV)the Son of God, and that by believing ^(AW)you may have life ^(AX)in his name.

Footnotes

John 20:7 Greek his
John 20:16 Or Hebrew
John 20:19 Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time
John 20:24 Greek Didymus