1Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.[ † ]Isaiah 15:1-16:14Isaiah 25:10Ezekiel 25:8-11Amos 2:1-3Zephaniah 2:8-11Isaiah 15:2Numbers 32:37Jeremiah 48:23Ezekiel 25:9 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. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.[ † ]Isaiah 16:14Isaiah 15:4Jeremiah 49:3Isaiah 10:31
3A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.[ † ]Isaiah 15:5Jeremiah 48:5-34 4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. 5For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.[ † ]Isaiah 15:5 6Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.[ † ]Jeremiah 17:6
7For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.[ † ]Psalms 52:7Isaiah 59:4Jeremiah 9:231 Timothy 6:17Numbers 21:29Judges 11:24Jeremiah 48:13Jeremiah 49:3 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 hath spoken.[ † ]Jeremiah 6:26 9Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.[ † ]Psalms 55:6 10Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.[ † ]Judges 5:231 Samuel 15:3-91 Kings 20:42
11Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.[ † ]Zephaniah 1:12 12Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. 13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.[ † ]1 Kings 11:7Hosea 10:61 Kings 12:291 Kings 13:32-34Hosea 8:5-6
14How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?[ † ]Isaiah 16:6 15Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.[ † ]Isaiah 40:30-31Jeremiah 50:27Jeremiah 46:18Jeremiah 51:57Malachi 1:14 16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. 17All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod![ † ]Isaiah 9:4Isaiah 14:4-5
18Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.[ † ]Isaiah 47:1Numbers 21:30Joshua 13:9-17Isaiah 15:2Jeremiah 48:22 19O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?[ † ]Deuteronomy 2:36Joshua 12:2Isaiah 17:21 Samuel 4:13-14, 16 20Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,[ † ]Isaiah 16:7Numbers 21:13 21and judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, 22and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, 23and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon, 24and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.[ † ]Jeremiah 48:41Amos 2:2
25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord .[ † ]Psalms 75:10Zechariah 1:19-21Ezekiel 30:21 26Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the Lord : Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.[ † ]Jeremiah 25:15 27For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.[ † ]Zephaniah 2:8Jeremiah 2:26Lamentations 2:15Micah 7:8-10 28O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.[ † ]Psalms 55:6-7Song of Solomon 2:14
29We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.[ † ]Isaiah 16:6Zephaniah 2:8-10Jeremiah 49:16 30I know his wrath, saith the Lord ; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it .[ † ]Isaiah 16:6Jeremiah 50:36 31Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres.[ † ]Isaiah 15:5Isaiah 16:7-11 32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.[ † ]Isaiah 16:8-9Numbers 21:32Isaiah 16:10 33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.[ † ]Isaiah 16:10Jeremiah 25:10Joel 1:12
34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.[ † ]Isaiah 15:4-6Numbers 32:3-37Isaiah 15:5-6 35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the Lord , him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.[ † ]Isaiah 15:2Isaiah 16:12 36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.[ † ]Isaiah 15:5Isaiah 16:11Isaiah 15:7
37For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.[ † ]Isaiah 15:2-3Jeremiah 16:6Jeremiah 41:5Jeremiah 47:5Genesis 37:34Isaiah 15:3Isaiah 20:2 38There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord .[ † ]Isaiah 15:3Jeremiah 22:28 39They shall howl, saying , How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
40For thus saith the Lord ; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:49Jeremiah 49:22Hosea 8:1Habakkuk 1:8Isaiah 8:8 41Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.[ † ]Isaiah 13:8Isaiah 21:3Jeremiah 30:6Micah 4:9-10 42And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord .[ † ]Psalms 83:4Jeremiah 48:2 43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord .[ † ]Isaiah 24:17-18Lamentations 3:47 44He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord .[ † ]1 Kings 19:17Isaiah 24:18Amos 5:19Jeremiah 11:23
45They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth 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.[ † ]Numbers 21:28-29Numbers 21:21-26Psalms 135:11Numbers 24:17 46Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.[ † ]Numbers 21:29 47Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the Lord . Thus far is the judgment of Moab.[ † ]Jeremiah 49:6-39