Jeremiah 31 : 1 (LXXEN)
Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.
Jeremiah 31 : 2 (LXXEN)
There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Esebon: he has 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;
Jeremiah 31 : 3 (LXXEN)
for there is a voice of men crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.
Jeremiah 31 : 4 (LXXEN)
Moab is ruined, proclaim it to Zogora:
Jeremiah 31 : 5 (LXXEN)
for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 31 : 6 (LXXEN)
Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.
Jeremiah 31 : 7 (LXXEN)
Since thou hast trusted in thy strong-hold, therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.
Jeremiah 31 : 8 (LXXEN)
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 has said.
Jeremiah 31 : 9 (LXXEN)
Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be *Or, kindled; q. d. with carbuncle touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her?
Jeremiah 31 : 10 (LXXEN)
Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.
Jeremiah 31 : 11 (LXXEN)
Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out his liquor from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.
Jeremiah 31 : 12 (LXXEN)
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.
Jeremiah 31 : 13 (LXXEN)
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.
Jeremiah 31 : 14 (LXXEN)
How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?
Jeremiah 31 : 15 (LXXEN)
Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.
Jeremiah 31 : 16 (LXXEN)
The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly to vengeance.
Jeremiah 31 : 17 (LXXEN)
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!
Jeremiah 31 : 18 (LXXEN)
Come down from thy glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against thee one to ravage thy strong-hold.
Jeremiah 31 : 19 (LXXEN)
Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?
Jeremiah 31 : 20 (LXXEN)
Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.
Jeremiah 31 : 21 (LXXEN)
And judgement is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,
Jeremiah 31 : 22 (LXXEN)
and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim,
Jeremiah 31 : 23 (LXXEN)
and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon,
Jeremiah 31 : 24 (LXXEN)
and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near.
Jeremiah 31 : 25 (LXXEN)
The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.
Jeremiah 31 : 26 (LXXEN)
Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.
Jeremiah 31 : 27 (LXXEN)
For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.
Jeremiah 31 : 28 (LXXEN)
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.
Jeremiah 31 : 29 (LXXEN)
And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.
Jeremiah 31 : 30 (LXXEN)
But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?
Jeremiah 31 : 31 (LXXEN)
Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men in a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,
Jeremiah 31 : 32 (LXXEN)
O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone *Gr. through over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy Or, harvest, or, corn fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers.
Jeremiah 31 : 33 (LXXEN)
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.
Jeremiah 31 : 34 (LXXEN)
From the cry of Esebon even to *Alex. Eleale Ætam 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 be *Gr. be for parching, or, burning dried up.
Jeremiah 31 : 35 (LXXEN)
And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.
Jeremiah 31 : 36 (LXXEN)
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 has gained has perished from him.
Jeremiah 31 : 37 (LXXEN)
They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall *Or, be cut beat the breasts, and on all loins shall be sackcloth.
Jeremiah 31 : 38 (LXXEN)
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.
Jeremiah 31 : 39 (LXXEN)
How has he *See Hebrew changed! how has 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 Gr. her him.
Jeremiah 31 : 40 (LXXEN)
For thus said the Lord;
Jeremiah 31 : 41 (LXXEN)
Carioth is taken, and the strong-holds have been taken together.
Jeremiah 31 : 42 (LXXEN)
And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.
Jeremiah 31 : 43 (LXXEN)
A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant off Moab.
Jeremiah 31 : 44 (LXXEN)
he that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes 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.
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