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Jeremiah 48:15
Jeremiah 48:15 is verse 15 of Jeremiah chapter 48, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
King James Version
Moab 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.
World English Bible
Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
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Jeremiah 48:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
14 How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
15 Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
16 Moab’s calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.
17 Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered— the glorious staff!
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Jeremiah 48:8The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.
Jeremiah 48:9Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
Jeremiah 48:10Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
Jeremiah 48:12Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
Jeremiah 48:13Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
Jeremiah 48:14How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
Jeremiah 48:15Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 48:16Moab’s calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.
Jeremiah 48:17Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered— the glorious staff!
Jeremiah 48:18Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.
Jeremiah 48:19Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’
Jeremiah 48:20Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
Jeremiah 48:21Judgment has come upon the high plain— upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
Jeremiah 48:22upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
Jeremiah 48:23upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
Jeremiah 48:24upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of Moab, those far and near.
Jeremiah 48:25The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.
Isaiah 40:30Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
Isaiah 40:31But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
Jeremiah 48:4Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.
Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.
Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Isaiah 34:2The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
Isaiah 34:3Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
Isaiah 34:4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
Isaiah 34:5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Isaiah 34:6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 34:7And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.
Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Jeremiah 46:18As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Psalms 24:8Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Psalms 24:9Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
Psalms 24:10Who is He, this King of Glory? The LORD of Hosts— He is the King of Glory. Selah
Psalms 47:2How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!
Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
Zechariah 14:9On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—the LORD alone, and His name alone.
Malachi 1:14“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.
Revelation 19:16And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.