Jeremiah 48:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

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  • Jer 46:18 : 18 As I live, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
  • Jer 50:27 : 27 Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 I will make her princes, wise men, captains, rulers, and mighty men drunk, and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is feared among the heathen.
  • Isa 40:30-31 : 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, 31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
  • Rev 19:16 : 16 And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and His ways just; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.
  • Zech 14:9 : 9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
  • Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with goats.
  • Jer 48:4 : 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have set up a cry.
  • Jer 48:8-9 : 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken. 9 Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them. 10 Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood. 11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is unchanged. 12 Therefore behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send to him wanderers, who shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels and break their bottles. 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence. 14 How do you say, 'We are mighty and strong men for the war'? 15 Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens quickly. 17 All you who are around him, bemoan him; and all you who know his name say, 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!' 18 You daughter who inhabits Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon you, and he shall destroy your strongholds. 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch; ask him who flees and her who escapes, 'What has happened?' 20 Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered. 21 Judgment has come upon the plain country: upon Holon, Jahazah, and Mephaath, 22 And upon Dibon, Nebo, and Bethdiblathaim, 23 And upon Kiriathaim, Bethgamul, and Bethmeon, 24 And upon Kerioth, Bozrah, 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, says the LORD.
  • Ps 24:8-9 : 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. 9 Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.
  • Ps 47:2 : 2 For the LORD Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth.
  • Isa 34:2-8 : 2 For the LORD's indignation is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their armies: He has utterly destroyed them, He has delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stench shall rise from their corpses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall dissolve, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And the wild oxen shall come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.

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  • Jer 48:16-18
    3 verses
    83%

    16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens quickly.

    17All you who are around him, bemoan him; and all you who know his name say, 'How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!'

    18You daughter who inhabits Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon you, and he shall destroy your strongholds.

  • Jer 48:14
    82%

    14How do you say, 'We are mighty and strong men for the war'?

  • Jer 48:1-5
    5 verses
    82%

    1Against Moab, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo, for it is ruined; Kiriathaim is confounded and captured; Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

    2There shall be no more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against it: 'Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.' You too shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.

    3A voice of crying shall be heard from Horonaim, plundering and great destruction.

    4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have set up a cry.

    5For on the ascent of Luhith they will go up with continual weeping; for on the descent of Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

  • Jer 48:41-43
    3 verses
    82%

    41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab in that day shall be like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

    42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.

    43Fear, the pit, and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.

  • Jer 48:24-26
    3 verses
    81%

    24And upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

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

    26Make him drunk, for he magnified himself against the LORD. Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and also he shall be in derision.

  • Jer 48:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20Moab is confounded, for it is broken down. Howl and cry; tell it in Arnon, that Moab is plundered.

    21Judgment has come upon the plain country: upon Holon, Jahazah, and Mephaath,

  • Jer 48:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

    9Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away; for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

  • Jer 48:45-47
    3 verses
    79%

    45Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force; but a fire shall come out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

    46Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish, for your sons are taken captive and your daughters captive.

    47Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

  • Zeph 2:8-10
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    78%

    8I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, by which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.

    9Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

    10This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

  • Isa 15:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence.

    2He has gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

  • Jer 48:38-39
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    77%

    38There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab and in its streets, for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure, says the LORD.

    39They shall howl, saying, 'How it is broken down! How has Moab turned his back with shame!' So Moab shall be a derision and a dismaying to all those around him.

  • Isa 16:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning Moab since that time.

    14But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab shall be despised, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

  • Jer 49:26
    75%

    26Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Num 21:29-30
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    75%

    29Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

    30We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

  • Isa 15:8
    75%

    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beerelim.

  • Isa 15:4-5
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    4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

    5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, like a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping shall they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

  • Jer 50:30
    75%

    30Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.

  • Isa 16:7
    75%

    7Therefore Moab shall wail for Moab, everyone shall wail: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.

  • Jer 48:34-36
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    74%

    34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh and to Jahaz they have uttered their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old; for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

    35Moreover, I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him who offers in the high places, and him who burns incense to his gods.

    36Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches he has acquired are perished.

  • 2 Kgs 3:23
    74%

    23And they said, "This is blood; the kings are surely slain, and they have struck one another. Now, Moab, to the spoil!"

  • Jer 48:29
    74%

    29We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceedingly proud), his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

  • Amos 2:2-3
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    2But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

    3And I will cut off the judge from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him, says the LORD.

  • Isa 25:10
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    10For on this mountain the hand of the LORD will rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under Him, as straw is trodden down for the refuse heap.

  • Jer 48:31
    73%

    31Therefore I will howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; my heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

  • Jer 48:11
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    11Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is unchanged.

  • Ezek 25:11
    73%

    11And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.