Jeremiah 48:46

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Sorrow is yours, O Moab! the people of Chemosh are overcome: for your sons have been taken away as prisoners, and your daughters made servants.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 21:29 : 29 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.
  • Judg 11:24 : 24 Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7 : 7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.
  • Jer 48:7 : 7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.
  • Jer 48:13 : 13 And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.
  • 2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 21:29-30
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    29 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.

    30 They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

  • Jer 48:47
    83%

    47 But still, I will let the fate of Moab be changed in the last days, says the Lord.

  • Jer 48:1-5
    5 verses
    81%

    1 Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.

    2 The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.

    3 There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;

    4 Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.

    5 For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears.

  • Jer 48:38-43
    6 verses
    79%

    38 On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.

    39 How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.

    40 For the Lord has said, See, he will come like an eagle in flight, stretching out his wings against Moab.

    41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

    42 And Moab will come to an end as a people, because he has been lifting himself up against the Lord.

    43 Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.

  • Jer 48:13-18
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    79%

    13 And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.

    14 How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?

    15 He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.

    16 The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.

    17 All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!

    18 Come down from your glory, O people of Dibon, and take your seat in the place of the waste; for the attacker of Moab has gone up against you, sending destruction on your strong places.

  • Jer 48:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20 Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

    21 And punishment has come on the lowlands; on Holon and Jahzah, and on Mephaath,

  • Jer 48:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7 For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.

    8 And the attacker will come against every town, not one will be safe; and the valley will be made waste, and destruction will come to the lowland, as the Lord has said.

    9 Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.

  • Jer 48:45
    76%

    45 Those who went in flight from the fear are waiting under the shade of Heshbon: for a fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the house of Sihon, burning up the pride of Moab and the crown of the head of the violent ones.

  • Zeph 2:9
    75%

    9 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

  • Isa 16:2
    74%

    2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.

  • Jer 48:24-26
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    74%

    24 And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.

    25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.

    26 Make him full of wine, for his heart has been lifted up against the Lord: and Moab will be rolling in the food he was not able to keep down, and everyone will be making sport of him.

  • Jer 48:33-36
    4 verses
    74%

    33 All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.

    34 The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.

    35 And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.

    36 So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.

  • Jer 48:31
    74%

    31 For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.

  • Isa 16:7
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    7 For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.

  • Jer 49:3
    73%

    3 Make sounds of grief, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted; give loud cries, O daughters of Rabbah, and put haircloth round you: give yourselves to weeping, running here and there and wounding yourselves; for Milcom will be taken prisoner together with his rulers and his priests.

  • Isa 15:1
    72%

    1 The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.

  • Amos 2:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

    2 And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:

  • Isa 15:8
    72%

    8 For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.

  • Isa 15:4-5
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    4 Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.

    5 My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

  • Isa 16:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

    13 This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.

  • Jer 49:6
    71%

    6 But after these things, I will let the fate of the children of Ammon be changed, says the Lord.

  • Isa 16:4
    71%

    4 Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.