Bible Cross References
Edom
Jeremiah 27:3
Then the LORD told me to send a message to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through their ambassadors who had come to Jerusalem to see King Zedekiah.
Jeremiah 49:7-22
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This is what the LORD Almighty said about Edom: "Have the people of Edom lost their good judgment? Can their advisers no longer tell them what to do? Has all their wisdom disappeared?
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People of Dedan, turn and run! Hide! I am going to destroy Esau's descendants because the time has come for me to punish them.
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When people pick grapes, they leave a few on the vines, and when robbers come at night, they take only what they want.
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But I have stripped Esau's descendants completely and uncovered their hiding places, so that they can no longer hide. All the people of Edom are destroyed. Not one of them is left.
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Leave your orphans with me, and I will take care of them. Your widows can depend on me.
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"If even those who did not deserve to be punished had to drink from the cup of punishment, do you think that you will go unpunished? No, you must drink from the cup!
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I myself have sworn that the city of Bozrah will become a horrifying sight and a desert; people will make fun of it and use its name as a curse. All the nearby villages will be in ruins forever. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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I said, "Edom, I have received a message from the LORD. He has sent a messenger to tell the nations to assemble their armies and to get ready to attack you.
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The LORD is going to make you weak, and no one will respect you.
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Your pride has deceived you. No one fears you as much as you think they do. You live on the rocky cliffs, high on top of the mountain; but even though you live as high up as an eagle, the LORD will bring you down. The LORD has spoken."
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The LORD said, "The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.
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The same thing will happen to Edom that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when they and the nearby towns were destroyed. No one will ever live there again. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan River up to the green pasture land, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?
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So listen to the plan that I have made against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.
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When Edom falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake, and the cries of alarm will be heard as far away as the Gulf of Aqaba.
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The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor."
Psalm 137:7
Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did the day Jerusalem was captured. Remember how they kept saying, "Tear it down to the ground!"
Isaiah 34:1-17
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Come, people of all nations! Gather around and listen. Let the whole earth and everyone living on it come here and listen.
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The LORD is angry with all the nations and all their armies. He has condemned them to destruction.
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Their corpses will not be buried, but will lie there rotting and stinking; and the mountains will be red with blood.
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The sun, moon, and stars will crumble to dust. The sky will disappear like a scroll being rolled up, and the stars will fall like leaves dropping from a vine or a fig tree.
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The LORD has prepared his sword in heaven, and now it will strike Edom, those people whom he has condemned to destruction.
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His sword will be covered with their blood and fat, like the blood and fat of lambs and goats that are sacrificed. The LORD will offer this sacrifice in the city of Bozrah; he will make this a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat.
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This is the time when the LORD will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.
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The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulfur. The whole country will burn like tar.
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It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it forever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.
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Owls and ravens will take over the land. The LORD will make it a barren waste again, as it was before the creation.
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There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.
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Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.
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Wild animals will roam there, and demons will call to each other. The night monster will come there looking for a place to rest.
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Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.
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Search in the LORD's book of living creatures and read what it says. Not one of these creatures will be missing, and not one will be without its mate. The LORD has commanded it to be so; he himself will bring them together.
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It is the LORD who will divide the land among them and give each of them a share. They will live in the land age after age, and it will belong to them forever.
Isaiah 63:1-6
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"Who is this coming from the city of Bozrah in Edom? Who is this so splendidly dressed in red, marching along in power and strength?" It is the LORD, powerful to save, coming to announce his victory.
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"Why is his clothing so red, like that of someone who tramples grapes to make wine?"
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The LORD answers, "I have trampled the nations like grapes, and no one came to help me. I trampled them in my anger, and their blood has stained all my clothing.
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I decided that the time to save my people had come; it was time to punish their enemies.
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I was amazed when I looked and saw that there was no one to help me. But my anger made me strong, and I won the victory myself.
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In my anger I trampled whole nations and shattered them. I poured out their lifeblood on the ground."
Lamentations 4:21
Laugh on, people of Edom and Uz; be glad while you can. Your disaster is coming too; you too will stagger naked in shame.
Lamentations 4:22
Zion has paid for her sin; the LORD will not keep us in exile any longer. But Edom, the LORD will punish you; he will expose your guilty acts.
Ezekiel 25:12-14
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The Sovereign LORD said, "The people of Edom took cruel revenge on Judah, and that revenge has brought lasting guilt on Edom.
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Now I announce that I will punish Edom and kill every person and animal there. I will make it a wasteland, from the city of Teman to the city of Dedan, and the people will be killed in battle.
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My people Israel will take revenge on Edom for me, and they will make Edom feel my furious anger. Edom will know what it means to be the object of my revenge." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Ezekiel 32:29
"Edom is there with her kings and rulers. They were powerful soldiers, but now they lie in the world of the dead with the uncircumcised who were killed in battle.
Ezekiel 35:1-15
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"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Edom.
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Tell the people what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: "I am your enemy, mountains of Edom! I will make you a desolate wasteland.
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I will leave your cities in ruins And your land desolate; Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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"You were Israel's constant enemy and let her people be slaughtered in the time of her disaster, the time of final punishment for her sins.
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So then---as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God---death is your fate, and you cannot escape it. You are guilty of murder, and murder will follow you.
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I will make the hill country of Edom a wasteland and kill everyone who travels through it.
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I will cover the mountains with corpses, and the bodies of those who are killed in battle will cover the hills and valleys.
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I will make you desolate forever, and no one will live in your cities again. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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"You said that the two nations, Judah and Israel, together with their lands, belonged to you and that you would possess them, even though I, the LORD, was their God.
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So then, as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I will pay you back for your anger, your jealousy, and your hate toward my people. They will know that I am punishing you for what you did to them.
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Then you will know that I, the LORD, heard you say with contempt that the mountains of Israel were desolate and that they were yours to devour.
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I have heard the wild, boastful way you have talked against me."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "I will make you so desolate that the whole world will rejoice at your downfall,
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just as you rejoiced at the devastation of Israel, my own possession. The mountains of Seir, yes, all the land of Edom, will be desolate. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD."
Amos 1:11
The LORD says, "The people of Edom have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They hunted down their relatives, the Israelites, and showed them no mercy. Their anger had no limits, and they never let it die.
Amos 1:12
So I will send fire upon the city of Teman and burn down the fortresses of Bozrah."
Obadiah 1:1-16
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This is the prophecy of Obadiah---what the Sovereign LORD said about the nation of Edom. The LORD has sent his messenger to the nations, and we have heard his message: "Get ready! Let us go to war against Edom!"
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The LORD says to Edom, "I will make you weak; everyone will despise you.
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Your pride has deceived you. Your capital is a fortress of solid rock; your home is high in the mountains, and so you say to yourself, 'Who can ever pull me down?'
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Even though you make your home as high as an eagle's nest, so that it seems to be among the stars, yet I will pull you down.
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"When thieves come at night, they take only what they want. When people gather grapes, they always leave a few. But your enemies have wiped you out completely.
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Descendants of Esau, your treasures have been looted.
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Your allies have deceived you; they have driven you from your country. People who were at peace with you have now conquered you. Those friends who ate with you have laid a trap for you; they say of you, 'Where is all that cleverness he had?'
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"On the day I punish Edom, I will destroy their clever men and wipe out all their wisdom.
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The fighting men of Teman will be terrified, and every soldier in Edom will be killed.
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"Because you robbed and killed your relatives, the descendants of Jacob, you will be destroyed and dishonored forever.
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You stood aside on that day when enemies broke down their gates. You were as bad as those strangers who carried off Jerusalem's wealth and divided it among themselves.
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You should not have gloated over the misfortune of your relatives in Judah. You should not have been glad on the day of their ruin. You should not have laughed at them in their distress.
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You should not have entered the city of my people to gloat over their suffering and to seize their riches on the day of their disaster.
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You should not have stood at the crossroads to catch those trying to escape. You should not have handed them over to the enemy on the day of their distress.
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"The day is near when I, the LORD, will judge all nations. Edom, what you have done will be done to you. You will get back what you have given.
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My people have drunk a bitter cup of punishment on my sacred hill. But all the surrounding nations will drink a still more bitter cup of punishment; they will drink it all and vanish away.
Obadiah 1:18-16
Malachi 1:2-4
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The LORD says to his people, "I have always loved you." But they reply, "How have you shown your love for us?" The LORD answers, "Esau and Jacob were brothers, but I have loved Jacob and his descendants,
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and have hated Esau and his descendants. I have devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned the land to jackals."
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If Esau's descendants, the Edomites, say, "Our towns have been destroyed, but we will rebuild them," then the LORD will reply, "Let them rebuild---I will tear them down again. People will call them 'The evil country' and 'The nation with whom the LORD is angry forever.' "
Moab
Jeremiah 9:26
Jeremiah 48:1-47
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This is what the LORD Almighty said about Moab: "Pity the people of Nebo--- their town is destroyed! Kiriathaim is captured, its mighty fortress torn down, and its people put to shame;
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the splendor of Moab is gone. The enemy have captured Heshbon and plot to destroy the nation of Moab. The town of Madmen will be silenced; armies will march against it.
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The people of Horonaim cry out, 'Violence! Destruction!'
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"Moab has been destroyed; listen to the children crying.
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Hear the sound of their sobs along the road up to Luhith, the cries of distress on the way down to Horonaim.
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'Quick, run for your lives!' they say. 'Run like a wild desert donkey!'
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"Moab, you trusted in your strength and your wealth, but now even you will be conquered; your god Chemosh will go into exile, along with his princes and priests.
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Not a town will escape the destruction; both valley and plain will be ruined. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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Set up a tombstone for Moab; it will soon be destroyed. Its towns will be left in ruins, and no one will live there again."
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(Curse those who do not do the LORD's work with all their heart! Curse those who do not slash and kill!)
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The LORD said, "Moab has always lived secure and has never been taken into exile. Moab is like wine left to settle undisturbed and never poured from jar to jar. Its flavor has never been ruined, and it tastes as good as ever.
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"So now, the time is coming when I will send people to pour Moab out like wine. They will empty its wine jars and break them in pieces.
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Then the Moabites will be disillusioned with their god Chemosh, just as the Israelites were disillusioned with Bethel, a god in whom they trusted.
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"Men of Moab, why do you claim to be heroes, brave soldiers tested in war?
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Moab and its cities are destroyed; its finest young men have been slaughtered. I am the king, the LORD Almighty, and I have spoken.
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Moab's doom approaches; its ruin is coming soon.
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"Mourn for that nation, you that live nearby, all of you that know its fame. Say, 'Its powerful rule has been broken; its glory and might are no more.'
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You that live in Dibon, come down from your place of honor and sit on the ground in the dust; Moab's destroyer is here and has left its forts in ruins.
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You that live in Aroer, stand by the road and wait; ask those who are running away, find out from them what has happened.
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'Moab has fallen,' they will answer, 'weep for it; it is disgraced. Announce along the Arnon River that Moab is destroyed!'
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"Judgment has come on the cities of the plateau: on Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,
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Dibon, Nebo, Beth Diblathaim,
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Kiriathaim, Bethgamul, Bethmeon,
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Kerioth, and Bozrah. Judgment has come on all the cities of Moab, far and near.
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Moab's might has been crushed; its power has been destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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The LORD said, "Make Moab drunk, because it has rebelled against me. Moab will roll in its own vomit, and people will laugh.
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Moab, remember how you made fun of the people of Israel? You treated them as though they had been caught with a gang of robbers.
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"You people who live in Moab, leave your towns! Go and live on the cliffs! Be like the dove that makes its nest in the sides of a ravine.
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Moab is very proud! I have heard how proud, arrogant, and conceited the people are, how much they think of themselves.
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I, the LORD, know of their arrogance. Their boasts amount to nothing, and the things they do will not last.
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And so I will weep for everyone in Moab and for the people of Kir Heres.
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I will cry for the people of Sibmah, even more than for the people of Jazer. City of Sibmah, you are like a vine whose branches reach across the Dead Sea and go as far as Jazer. But now your summer fruits and your grapes have been destroyed.
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Happiness and joy have been taken away from the fertile land of Moab. I have made the wine stop flowing from the wine presses; there is no one to make the wine and shout for joy.
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"The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, and their cry can be heard as far as Jahaz; it can be heard by the people in Zoar, and it is heard as far as Horonaim and Eglath Shelishiyah. Even Nimrim Brook has dried up.
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I will stop the people of Moab from making burnt offerings at their places of worship and from offering sacrifices to their gods. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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"So my heart mourns for Moab and for the people of Kir Heres, like someone playing a funeral song on a flute, because everything they owned is gone.
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All of them have shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.
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On all the housetops of Moab and in all its public squares there is nothing but mourning, because I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants.
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Moab has been shattered! Cry out! Moab has been disgraced. It is in ruins, and all the surrounding nations make fun of it. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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The LORD has promised that a nation will swoop down on Moab like an eagle with its outspread wings,
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and the towns and fortresses will be captured. On that day Moab's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.
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Moab will be destroyed and will no longer be a nation, because it rebelled against me.
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Terror, pits, and traps are waiting for the people of Moab. The LORD has spoken.
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Whoever tries to escape the terror will fall into the pits, and whoever climbs out of the pits will be caught in the traps, because the LORD has set the time for Moab's destruction.
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Helpless refugees try to find protection in Heshbon, the city that King Sihon once ruled, but it is in flames. Fire has burned up the frontiers and the mountain heights of the war-loving people of Moab.
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Pity the people of Moab! The people who worshiped Chemosh have been destroyed, and their sons and daughters have been taken away as prisoners.
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But in days to come the LORD will make Moab prosperous again. All of this is what the LORD has said will happen to Moab.
Isaiah 15:1-16
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This is a message about Moab. The cities of Ar and Kir are destroyed in a single night, and silence covers the land of Moab.
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The people of Dibon climb the hill to weep at the shrine. The people of Moab wail in grief over the cities of Nebo and Medeba; they have shaved their heads and their beards in grief.
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The people in the streets are dressed in sackcloth; in the city squares and on the rooftops people mourn and cry.
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The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, and their cry can be heard as far away as Jahaz. Even the soldiers tremble; their courage is gone.
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My heart cries out for Moab! The people have fled to the town of Zoar, and to Eglath Shelishiyah. Some climb the road to Luhith, weeping as they go; some escape to Horonaim, grieving loudly.
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Nimrim Brook is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left.
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The people go across the Valley of Willows, trying to escape with all their possessions.
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Everywhere at Moab's borders the sound of crying is heard. It is heard at the towns of Eglaim and Beerelim.
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At the town of Dibon the river is red with blood, and God has something even worse in store for the people there. Yes, there will be a bloody slaughter of everyone left in Moab.
Isaiah 25:10
The LORD will protect Mount Zion, but the people of Moab will be trampled down the way straw is trampled in manure.
Ezekiel 25:8-11
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The Sovereign LORD said, "Because Moab has said that Judah is like all the other nations,
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I will let the cities that defend the border of Moab be attacked, including even the finest cities---Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.
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I will let the tribes of the eastern desert conquer Moab, together with Ammon, so that Moab will no longer be a nation.
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I will punish Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD."
Amos 2:1-3
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The LORD says, "The people of Moab have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They dishonored the bones of the king of Edom by burning them to ashes.
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I will send fire upon the land of Moab and burn down the fortresses of Kerioth. The people of Moab will die in the noise of battle while soldiers are shouting and trumpets are sounding.
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I will kill the ruler of Moab and all the leaders of the land."
Zephaniah 2:8-10
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The LORD Almighty says, "I have heard the people of Moab and Ammon insulting and taunting my people, and boasting that they would seize their land.
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As surely as I am the living LORD, the God of Israel, I swear that Moab and Ammon are going to be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. They will become a place of salt pits and everlasting ruin, overgrown with weeds. Those of my people who survive will plunder them and take their land."
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That is how the people of Moab and Ammon will be punished for their pride and arrogance and for insulting the people of the LORD Almighty.
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Jeremiah 49:1-6
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This is what the LORD said about Ammon: "Where are the men of Israel? Is there no one to defend their land? Why have they let the people who worship Molech take the territory of the tribe of Gad and settle there?
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But the time is coming when I will make the people of the capital city of Rabbah hear the noise of battle, and it will be left in ruins and its villages burned to the ground. Then Israel will take its land back from those who took it from them.
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People of Heshbon, cry out! Ai is destroyed! Women of Rabbah, go into mourning! Put on sackcloth and mourn. Run about in confusion. Your god Molech will be taken into exile, together with his priests and princes.
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Why do you unfaithful people boast? Your strength is failing. Why do you trust in your power and say that no one would dare attack you?
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I will bring terror on you from every side. You will all run away. Each one will run for his life, and there will be no one to bring your troops together again.
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"But later on I will make Ammon prosperous again. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Ezekiel 25:2-7
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"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Ammon.
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Tell them to listen to what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: You were delighted to see my Temple profaned, to see the land of Israel devastated, to see the people of Judah go into exile.
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Because you were glad, I will let the tribes from the eastern desert conquer you. They will set up their camps in your country and settle there. They will eat the fruit and drink the milk that should have been yours.
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I will turn the city of Rabbah into a place to keep camels, and the whole country of Ammon will become a place to keep sheep, so that you will know I am the LORD.
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"This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: You clapped your hands and jumped for joy. You despised the land of Israel.
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Because you did, I will hand you over to other nations who will rob you and plunder you. I will destroy you so completely that you will not be a nation any more or have a country of your own. Then you will know that I am the LORD."
Amos 1:13-15
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The LORD says, "The people of Ammon have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. In their wars for more territory they even ripped open pregnant women in Gilead.
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So I will send fire upon the city walls of Rabbah and burn down its fortresses. Then there will be shouts on the day of battle, and the fighting will rage like a storm.
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Their king and his officers will go into exile."