New American Standard Bible

Jeremiah 48:32-42 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

32. "More than the weeping for Jazer I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your tendrils stretched across the sea, They reached to the sea of Jazer; Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest The destroyer has fallen.

33. "So gladness and joy are taken away From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab. And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses; No one will tread them with shouting, The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

34. From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.

35. I will make an end of Moab," declares the Lord, "the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods.

36. "Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.

37. For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

38. On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel," declares the Lord.

39. "How shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back-he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him."

40. For thus says the Lord: "Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle And spread out his wings against Moab.

41. "Kerioth has been captured And the strongholds have been seized, So the hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

42. "Moab will be destroyed from being a people Because he has become arrogant toward the Lord.