Jeremiah 48:1-6

Concerning ^aMoab. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,

“Woe to ^bNebo, for it has been destroyed;

^cKiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;

The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and ¹shattered.

There is praise for Moab no longer;

In ^aHeshbon they have devised calamity against her:

‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!’

You too, ¹Madmen, will be silenced;

The sword will follow after you.

The sound of an outcry from ^aHoronaim,

‘¹Devastation and great destruction!’

Moab is broken;

Her little ones have made their cry of distress heard.

For by the ascent of ^aLuhith

They will ascend with continual weeping;

For at the descent of Horonaim

They have heard the distressed cry of destruction.

^aFlee, escape with your lives,

That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 48:8

A destroyer will come to every city,

So that no city will escape;

The valley also will perish,

And the ^aplateau will be destroyed,

As Yahweh has said.