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Jeremiah 48:11-13
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Jeremiah 48:11-13
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11 “Moab has never known trouble.
Moab is like wine left to settle.
Moab has never been poured from one jar to another.
He has not been taken into captivity.
So he tastes as he did before,
and his smell has not changed.”
12 This is what the Lord says:
“But I will soon send men
to pour you from your jars.[a]
Then they will empty the jars
and smash them to pieces.”
13 Then the people of Moab will be ashamed of their false god, Chemosh. They will be like the people of Israel who trusted that god in Bethel[b] but were ashamed when he did not help them.
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- Jeremiah 48:12 jars This probably means the cities in Moab.
- Jeremiah 48:13 in Bethel This means the temple that King Jeroboam built in the town of Bethel (see 1 Kings 12:28-33). It is not clear if this means the people still worshiped the Lord there, but in a wrong way, or if they worshiped a false god, perhaps the Canaanite god El or Baal.
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