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Inescapable Doom and Future Hope
Jeremiah 48:40-47
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For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
41
Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
42
Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.
43
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.
44
“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
45
“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
46
Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.
47
Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
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