Moab shall boast no more of Heshbon: for they have devised evil against it. [a]Come, and let us destroy it, that it be no more a nation: also thou shalt be destroyed, [b]O Madmen, and the sword shall pursue thee.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:2 Thus shall the Babylonians encourage one another.
  2. Jeremiah 48:2 Read Isa. 25:10.

Moab will be praised(A) no more;
    in Heshbon[a](B) people will plot her downfall:
    ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’(C)
You, the people of Madmen,[b] will also be silenced;
    the sword will pursue you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:2 The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
  2. Jeremiah 48:2 The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.