16 I will scatter them among nations(A) that neither they nor their ancestors have known,(B) and I will pursue them with the sword(C) until I have made an end of them.”(D)

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Moab will be praised(A) no more;
    in Heshbon[a](B) people will plot her downfall:
    ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’(C)
You, the people of Madmen,[b] will also be silenced;
    the sword will pursue you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:2 The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
  2. Jeremiah 48:2 The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.

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