Jeremiah 48:30-40

30 I know her insolence but it is futile,” declares the LORD, “and her boasts accomplish nothing.
31 Therefore I wail over Moab, for all Moab I cry out, I moan for the people of Kir Hareseth.
32 I weep for you, as Jazer weeps, you vines of Sibmah. Your branches spread as far as the sea[a] ; they reached as far as[b] Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your ripened fruit and grapes.
33 Joy and gladness are gone from the orchards and fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy. Although there are shouts, they are not shouts of joy.
34 “The sound of their cry rises from Heshbon to Elealeh and Jahaz, from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim are dried up.
35 In Moab I will put an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods,” declares the LORD.
36 “So my heart laments for Moab like the music of a pipe; it laments like a pipe for the people of Kir Hareseth. The wealth they acquired is gone.
37 Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.
38 On all the roofs in Moab and in the public squares there is nothing but mourning, for I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants,” declares the LORD.
39 “How shattered she is! How they wail! How Moab turns her back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule, an object of horror to all those around her.”
40 This is what the LORD says: “Look! An eagle is swooping down, spreading its wings over Moab.

Cross References 27

  • 1. S Psalms 10:3
  • 2. ver 36; Isaiah 15:5-8
  • 3. S 2 Kings 3:25
  • 4. S Joshua 13:25
  • 5. S Numbers 32:3; Isaiah 16:8-9
  • 6. S Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 16:10
  • 7. Joel 1:12; Amos 5:17
  • 8. S Numbers 21:25; S Joshua 13:26
  • 9. S Numbers 32:3
  • 10. S Numbers 21:23; S Isaiah 15:4
  • 11. S Genesis 13:10
  • 12. S Isaiah 15:5
  • 13. S Isaiah 15:6
  • 14. S Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 16:12
  • 15. Jeremiah 11:13
  • 16. S ver 31; Isaiah 16:11
  • 17. S 2 Kings 3:25
  • 18. S Isaiah 15:7
  • 19. Isaiah 15:2; S Jeremiah 41:5; Ezekiel 27:31; Ezekiel 29:18
  • 20. S Leviticus 19:27; S 2 Samuel 10:4
  • 21. S Genesis 37:34; S Isaiah 3:24; Jeremiah 16:6; Amos 8:10
  • 22. S Isaiah 15:3
  • 23. S Jeremiah 22:28
  • 24. Jeremiah 50:23
  • 25. ver 26
  • 26. S Deuteronomy 28:49; Habakkuk 1:8
  • 27. S Isaiah 8:8

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Probably the Dead Sea
  • [b]. Two Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts "as far as the Sea of"
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.