Jeremiah 46:26-48:15

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^27 (D)“But fear not, O Jacob my servant,
    nor be dismayed, O Israel,
for behold, I will save you from far away,
    and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease,
    and none shall make him afraid.
^28 (E)Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
declares the Lord,
    for I am with you.
I will make a full end of all the nations
    to which I have driven you,
    but of you I will not make a full end.
^(F)I will discipline you in just measure,
    and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”

² “Thus says the Lord:
^(I)Behold, waters are rising ^(J)out of the north,
    ^(K)and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow ^(L)the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
³ At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    ^(M)at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers ^(N)look not back to their children,
    so feeble are their hands,
⁴ because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all ^(O)the Philistines,
to cut off from ^(P)Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    ^(Q)the remnant of the coastland of ^(R)Caphtor.
^5 (S)Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    ^(T)Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    ^(U)how long will you gash yourselves?
^6 (V)Ah, sword of the Lord!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
⁷ How can it^[a] be quiet
    ^(W)when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against ^(X)Ashkelon and against the seashore
    ^(Y)he has appointed it.”

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

³ “A voice! A cry from ^(AG)Horonaim,
    ‘Desolation and great destruction!’
⁴ Moab is destroyed;
    her little ones have made a cry.
^5 (AH)For at the ascent of Luhith
    they go up weeping;^[b]
for ^(AI)at the descent of Horonaim
    they have heard the distressed cry^[c] of destruction.
⁶ Flee! Save yourselves!
    You will be like ^(AJ)a juniper in the desert!
⁷ For, ^(AK)because you trusted in your works and your treasures,
    you also shall be taken;
and ^(AL)Chemosh ^(AM)shall go into exile
    with ^(AN)his priests and his officials.
^8 (AO)The destroyer shall come upon every city,
    and no city shall escape;
the valley shall perish,
    and ^(AP)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.

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

¹⁴ “How do you say, ‘We are heroes
    and mighty men of war’?
¹⁵ The destroyer of ^(AW)Moab and his cities has come up,
    and the choicest of his young men have ^(AX)gone down to slaughter,
    declares ^(AY)the King, ^(AZ)whose name is the Lord of hosts.