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Jeremiah 48:7-15 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

7. For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

8. And the plunderer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

9. Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

10. Cursed is he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed is he that keeps back his sword from blood.

11. Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

12. Therefore, behold, the days come,

13. And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.

14. How say you, We are mighty and strong men for the war?

15. Moab is plundered, and gone up out of her cities, and her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,

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