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Jeremiah 48
⁵ "For by the ascent of Luhith They will ascend with continual weeping; For at the descent of Horonaim They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.
⁶ "Flee, save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
⁷ "For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh will go off into exile Together with his priests and his princes.
⁸ "A destroyer will come to every city, So that no city will escape; The valley also will be ruined And the plateau will be destroyed, As the Lord has said.
⁹ "Give wings to Moab, For she will flee away; And her cities will become a desolation, Without inhabitants in them.
¹⁰ "Cursed be the one who does the Lord’s work negligently, And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.
¹¹ "Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbed, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.
¹² Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
¹³ And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
¹⁴ "How can you say, ’We are mighty warriors, And men valiant for battle’?
¹⁵ "Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities; His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter," Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.