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Jeremiah 48:7-13

Jeremiah 48:7-13 NCV

You trust in the things you do and in your wealth, so you also will be captured. The god Chemosh will go into captivity and his priests and officers with him. The destroyer will come against every town; not one town will escape. The valley will be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said. Give wings to Moab, because she will surely leave her land. Moab’s towns will become empty, with no one to live in them. A curse will be on anyone who doesn’t do what the LORD says, and a curse will be on anyone who holds back his sword from killing. “The people of Moab have never known trouble. They are like wine left to settle; they have never been poured from one jar to another. They have not been taken into captivity. So they taste as they did before, and their smell has not changed. A time is coming,” says the LORD, “When I will send people to pour you from your jars. They will empty Moab’s jars and smash her jugs. The people of Israel trusted that god in the town of Bethel, and they were ashamed when there was no help. In the same way Moab will be ashamed of their god Chemosh.