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41 Your cities[a] and fortresses
    will be captured,
and your warriors as fearful
    as women giving birth.[b]
42 You are finished as a nation,
because you dared oppose me,
    the Lord.
43 Terror, pits, and traps
    are waiting for you.

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Footnotes

  1. 48.41 Your cities: Or “Kerioth.”
  2. 48.41 as fearful … birth: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

41 Kerioth[a](A) will be captured
    and the strongholds taken.
In that day the hearts of Moab’s warriors(B)
    will be like the heart of a woman in labor.(C)
42 Moab will be destroyed(D) as a nation(E)
    because she defied(F) the Lord.
43 Terror(G) and pit and snare(H) await you,
    you people of Moab,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:41 Or The cities