Jeremiah 48:1-13

The Prophecy concerning Moab

48¹ The Message on Moab from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel: "Doom to Nebo! Leveled to the ground! Kiriathaim demeaned and defeated, The mighty fortress reduced to a molehill, ² Moab's glory - dust and ashes. Conspirators plot Heshbon's doom: 'Come, let's wipe Moab off the map.' Dungface Dimon will loudly lament, as killing follows killing. ³ Listen! A cry out of Horonaim: 'Disaster - doom and more doom!' ⁴ Moab will be shattered. Her cries will be heard clear down in Zoar. ⁵ Up the ascent of Luhith climbers weep, And down the descent from Horonaim, cries of loss and devastation. ⁶ Oh, run for your lives! Get out while you can! Survive by your wits in the wild! ⁷ You trusted in thick walls and big money, yes? But it won't help you now. Your big god Chemosh will be hauled off, his priests and managers with him. ⁸ A wrecker will wreck every city. Not a city will survive. The valley fields will be ruined, the plateau pastures destroyed, just as I told you. ⁹ Cover the land of Moab with salt. Make sure nothing ever grows here again. Her towns will all be ghost towns. Nobody will ever live here again. ¹⁰ Sloppy work in God's name is cursed, and cursed all halfhearted use of the sword. ¹¹ "Moab has always taken it easy - lazy as a dog in the sun, Never had to work for a living, never faced any trouble, Never had to grow up, never once worked up a sweat. ¹² But those days are a thing of the past. I'll put him to work at hard labor. That will wake him up to the world of hard knocks. That will smash his illusions. ¹³ Moab will be as ashamed of god Chemosh as Israel was ashamed of her Bethel calf-gods, the calf-gods she thought were so great.