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8 "God, the Master, says: Because Moab said, 'Look, Judah's nothing special,'
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8 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because Moab and Seir said, "Look, the house of Judah has become like all the other nations,"
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9 I'll lay wide open the flank of Moab by exposing its lovely frontier villages to attack: Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.
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9 therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns--Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim--the glory of that land.
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10 I'll lump Moab in with Ammon and give them to the people of the east for the taking. Ammon won't be heard from again.
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10 I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations;
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11 I'll punish Moab severely. And they'll realize that I am God."
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11 and I will inflict punishment on Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD.' "
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