Jeremiah 48:10-36

English Standard Version

¹⁰^(A)“Cursed is he who does ^(B)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 ^(C)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^[a] jars in pieces. ¹³Then ^(D)Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as ^(E)the house of Israel was ashamed of ^(F)Bethel, their confidence.

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

¹⁸^(M)“Come down from your glory,
    and sit on the parched ground,
    O inhabitant of ^(N)Dibon!
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
    he has destroyed your strongholds.
¹⁹^(O)Stand by the way ^(P)and watch,
    O inhabitant of ^(Q)Aroer!
Ask him who flees and her who escapes;
    say, ‘What has happened?’
²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
    ^(R)wail and cry!
Tell it beside ^(S)the Arnon,
    that ^(T)Moab is laid waste.

²¹“Judgment has come upon ^(U)the tableland, upon Holon, and ^(V)Jahzah, and Mephaath, ²²and ^(W)Dibon, and ^(X)Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, ²³and ^(Y)Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and ^(Z)Beth-meon, ²⁴and ^(AA)Kerioth, and ^(AB)Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. ²⁵^(AC)The horn of Moab is cut off, and ^(AD)his arm is broken, declares the Lord.

²⁶^(AE)“Make him drunk, ^(AF)because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall ^(AG)wallow in his vomit, ^(AH)and he too shall be held in derision. ²⁷^(AI)Was not Israel a derision to you? ^(AJ)Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him ^(AK)you wagged your head?

²⁸^(AL)“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,
    O inhabitants of Moab!
Be ^(AM)like the dove that nests
    in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
²⁹^(AN)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;
    ^(AO)his boasts are false,
    his deeds are false.
³¹^(AP)Therefore I wail for Moab;
    I cry out for all Moab;
    for the men of ^(AQ)Kir-hareseth I mourn.
³²More than for ^(AR)Jazer I weep for you,
    ^(AS)O vine of ^(AT)Sibmah!
^(AU)Your branches passed over the sea,
    reached to the Sea of ^(AV)Jazer;
on your summer fruits and your grapes
    the destroyer has fallen.
³³^(AW)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^(AX)“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to ^(AY)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 ^(AZ)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 ^(BA)Kir-hareseth. ^(BB)Therefore the riches they gained have perished.