For the waters (A)of Nimrim will be desolate,
For the green grass has withered away;
The grass fails, there is nothing green.

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The waters of Nimrim are dried up(A)
    and the grass is withered;(B)
the vegetation is gone(C)
    and nothing green is left.(D)

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Judgment on Moab

48 Against (A)Moab.

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

“Woe to (B)Nebo!
For it is plundered,
(C)Kirjathaim is shamed and taken;
[a]The high stronghold is shamed and dismayed—

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:1 Heb. Misgab

A Message About Moab(A)

48 Concerning Moab:(B)

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:

“Woe to Nebo,(C) for it will be ruined.
    Kiriathaim(D) will be disgraced and captured;
    the stronghold[a] will be disgraced and shattered.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:1 Or captured; / Misgab

Judgment on Israel

Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of Moab, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he (B)burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

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This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Moab,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because he burned to ashes(B)
    the bones of Edom’s king,

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But I will send a fire upon Moab,
And it shall devour the palaces of (A)Kerioth;
Moab shall die with tumult,
With shouting and trumpet sound.

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I will send fire on Moab
    that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.[a](A)
Moab will go down in great tumult
    amid war cries(B) and the blast of the trumpet.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 2:2 Or of her cities