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26 “Make him drunk,
    because he magnified himself against Yahweh,
and let Moab wallow in his vomit.
    And he also will become a laughingstock.
27 Now was not Israel the laughingstock to you?
    Or was he found among thieves?
For as often as[a] you spoke over him
    you shook your head.
28 Leave the towns and dwell on the rock,
    O inhabitants of Moab,
and be like the dove,
    it nests on the sides of the mouth of a ravine.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:27 Literally “from enough”

26 “Make her drunk,(A)
    for she has defied(B) the Lord.
Let Moab wallow in her vomit;(C)
    let her be an object of ridicule.(D)
27 Was not Israel the object of your ridicule?(E)
    Was she caught among thieves,(F)
that you shake your head(G) in scorn(H)
    whenever you speak of her?
28 Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks,
    you who live in Moab.
Be like a dove(I) that makes its nest
    at the mouth of a cave.(J)

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