Jeremiah 48:14

14 How can you say, 'we [are] warriors, and men of might for the battle.'

Jeremiah 48:14 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 48:14

How say ye, we [are] mighty and strong men for the war?
] The Moabites were proud, haughty, and arrogant; boasted much of their strength and valour; of the strength of their bodies, and fitness for war, and skill in it; and of the strength of their fortified cities; and thought themselves a match for the enemy, and secure from all danger: for this their pride, vanity, and self-confidence, they are here reproved, since their destruction was at hand.

Jeremiah 48:14 In-Context

12 {Therefore} look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "and I will send to him {decanters}, and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash.

13 Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel, their trust.

14 How can you say, 'we [are] warriors, and men of might for the battle.'

15 Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering," {declares} the King, Yahweh of hosts [is] his name.

16 "The disaster of Moab [is] near to come, and his disaster {approaches very quickly}.