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JEREMIAH
- 20Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed;
- Wail and cry;
- Tell ye it in Arnon,
- That Moab is spoiled.
21And judgment is come upon the country of the Plain; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath; 22and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim; 23and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon; 24and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
- 25The horn of Moab is cut off,
- And his arm is broken,
- Saith the Lord.
- 26Make ye him drunken,
- For he magnified himself against the Lord;
- And Moab shall wallow in his vomit,
- And he also shall be in derision.
- 27For was not Israel a derision unto thee?
- Was he found among thieves?
- For as often as thou speakest of him,
- Thou waggest the head.
- 28O ye that dwell in Moab,
- Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock;
- And be like the dove that maketh her nest
- In the sides of the pit's mouth.
- 29We have heard of the pride of Moab;
- He is very proud;
- His loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness,
- And the assumption of his heart.
- 30I know his arrogancy, saith the Lord,
- That it is ill-founded;
- His boastings have wrought nothing well-founded.
- 31Therefore will I wail for Moab;
- Yea, I will cry out for all Moab;
- For the men of Kir-heres shall my heart moan.
- 32With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee,
- O vine of Sibmah;
- Thy branches passed over the sea,
- They reached even to the sea of Jazer;
- Upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage
- The spoiler is fallen.
- 33And gladness and joy is taken away
- From the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab;
- And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses;
- None shall tread with shouting;
- The shouting shall be no shouting.
- 34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh,
- Even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice,
- From Zoar even unto Horonaim,
- A heifer of three years old;
- For the Waters of Nimrim also
- Shall be desolate.
- 35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,
- Saith the Lord,
- Him that offereth in the high place,
- And him that offereth to his gods.
- 36Therefore my heart moaneth for Moab
- Like pipes, and my heart moaneth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres;
- Therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.
- 37For every head is bald,
- And every beard clipped;
- Upon all the hands are cuttings,
- And upon the loins sackcloth.
- 38On all the housetops of Moab and in the broad places thereof
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