Jeremiah 48:1-25 Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Woe to Nabo, for it is laid waste, and confounded: Cariathaim is taken: the strong city is confounded and hath trembled. ² There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee. ³ A voice of crying from Oronaim: waste, and great destruction. ⁴ Moab is destroyed: proclaim a cry for her little ones. ⁵ For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction. ⁶ Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness. ⁷ For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together. ⁸ And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken: ⁹ Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited. ¹⁰ Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood. ¹¹ Moab hath been fruitful from his youth, and hath rested upon his lees: and hath not been poured out from vessel to vessel, nor hath gone into captivity: therefore his taste hath remained in him, and his scent is not changed. ¹² Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send him men that shall order and overturn his bottles, and they shall cast him down, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles one against another. ¹³ And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, in which they trusted. ¹⁴ How do you say: We are valiant and stout men in battle? ¹⁵ Moab is laid waste, and they have cast down her cities: and her choice young men are gone down to the slaughter: saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts. ¹⁶ The destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly. ¹⁷ Comfort him, all you that are round about him, and all you that know his name, say: How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod? ¹⁸ Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks. ¹⁹ Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done? ²⁰ Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted. ²¹ And judgment is come upon the plain country: upon Helon, and upon Jasa, and upon Mephaath. ²² And upon Dibon, and upon Nabo, and upon the house of Deblathaim, ²³ And upon Cariathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmaon, ²⁴ And upon Carioth, and upon Bosra: and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. ²⁵ The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.