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Inescapable Doom and Future Hope
Jeremiah 48:40-47
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For here is what ADONAI says: "Look! Down he swoops like a vulture, spreading his wings against Mo'av
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the cities are captured, the strongholds are seized. On that day the hearts of Mo'av's warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
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Mo'av will be destroyed as a people, because he boasted against ADONAI.
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Terror, pit and trap are upon you, people of Mo'av," says ADONAI.
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"Whoever flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who climbs up out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For I will bring on her, on Mo'av, the year for her punishment," says ADONAI.
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"In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stop, exhausted. For fire breaks out from Heshbon, a flame from inside Sichon, consuming the sides and tops of the heads of Mo'av's noisy boasters.
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Woe to you, Mo'av! K'mosh's people are doomed! For your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters led into captivity.
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Yet I will end Mo'av's exile in the acharit-hayamim," says ADONAI. This is the judgment on Mo'av.
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