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Jeremiah 48:7-9
EasyEnglish Bible
Jeremiah 48:7-9
EasyEnglish Bible
7 People of Moab, you trusted your riches and your skills to save you.
Because of that, your enemies will catch you.
They will even take your god Chemosh away as prisoner,
together with his priests and officers.
8 Your cruel enemy will attack every town.
No town or city will escape.
The enemy will destroy every place in the valley,
and every place on the high ground.
They will become heaps of stones.
I, the Lord, tell you this!
9 Dig a grave to bury Moab![a]
Its land will become like a desert.
Its cities will become heaps of stones.
Nobody will live in them.’
Footnotes
- 48:9 There are several ways to understand what the Hebrew means here.
Jeremiah 48:7-9
New International Version
Jeremiah 48:7-9
New International Version
7 Since you trust in your deeds and riches,(A)
you too will be taken captive,
and Chemosh(B) will go into exile,(C)
together with his priests and officials.(D)
8 The destroyer(E) will come against every town,
and not a town will escape.
The valley will be ruined
and the plateau(F) destroyed,
because the Lord has spoken.
9 Put salt(G) on Moab,
for she will be laid waste[a];(H)
her towns will become desolate,
with no one to live in them.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 48:9 Or Give wings to Moab, / for she will fly away
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