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Dig a grave to bury Moab![a]
Its land will become like a desert.
Its cities will become heaps of stones.
Nobody will live in them.’

10 The Lord will curse anyone who refuses to do his work! He will punish anyone who does not use his sword to kill his enemies!

Moab's peace will come to an end

11 The Lord said, ‘Moab's people have lived in peace since they first became a nation. No enemy has taken them away to a foreign land as their prisoners. They have been like the wine in a bottle that nobody has moved. Nobody has poured it into another bottle, so its taste and smell have never changed. Moab has always been the same.

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Footnotes

  1. 48:9 There are several ways to understand what the Hebrew means here.