Jeremias 31
1 Thus hath the Lord said concerning Moab, Woe to Nabau! for it hath perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame. 2 There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Esebon: he hath devised evils against her: we have cut her off from being a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword; 3 for there is a voice of men crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin. 4 Moab is ruined, proclaim it to Zogora: 5 for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.
6 Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert. 7 Since thou hast trusted in thy stronghold, therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together. 8 And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord hath said. 9 Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be [1]touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her? 10 Cursed is the man that doth the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.
11 Moab hath been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he hath not poured out his liquor from vessel to vessel, and hath not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not. 12 Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns asunder. 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their hope, having trusted in them.
14 How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war? 15 Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter. 16 The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moveth swiftly to vengeance. 17 Shake the head at him, all ye that are round about him; all of you utter his name; say ye, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!
18 Come down from thy glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there hath gone up against thee one to ravage thy stronghold. 19 Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapeth, and say, What hath happened?
20 Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab hath perished. 21 And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas, 22 and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim, 23 and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon, 24 and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near. 25 The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.
26 Make ye him drunk; for he hath magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock. 27 For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him. 28 The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.
29 And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he hath greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart hath been lifted up. 30 But I know his works: is it not enough for him? hath he not done thus?
31 Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men in a gloomy place. I will weep for thee, 32 O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are [2]gone over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction hath come upon thy [3]fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers. 33 Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and though there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy. 34 From the cry of Esebon even to [4]Eleale, and even unto Jassa their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings as a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall [5]be dried up.
35 And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he cometh up to the altar, and burneth incense to his gods. 36 Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what every man hath gained hath perished from him. 37 They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall [6]beat the breasts, and on all loins shall be sackcloth. 38 And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets shall be mourning: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless. 39 How hath he [7]changed! how hath Moab turned his back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing-stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about [8]him.
40 For thus said the Lord; 41 Carioth is taken, and the strongholds have been taken together. 42 And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord. 43 A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab. 44 He that fleeth from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that cometh up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.