Add parallel Print Page Options

Give Moab a blossom, but it will blow away completely.[a]
Her cities will become desolate
with no one to live in them.

10 Cursed is the one who is negligent in doing the Lord’s work.
Cursed is the one who holds back his sword from bloodshed.

11 Moab has been at peace since its youth,
undisturbed, like wine on its dregs,
never poured from one vessel to another.
It has never gone into captivity.
That is why it tastes the same as it always did,
and its aroma is unchanged.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:9 Or put salt on Moab, for it will be laid waste. The meaning of some of the Hebrew words in this verse are uncertain, and, as a result, there are many interpretations.

Put salt(A) on Moab,
    for she will be laid waste[a];(B)
her towns will become desolate,
    with no one to live in them.

10 “A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work!
    A curse on anyone who keeps their sword(C) from bloodshed!(D)

11 “Moab has been at rest(E) from youth,
    like wine left on its dregs,(F)
not poured from one jar to another—
    she has not gone into exile.
So she tastes as she did,
    and her aroma is unchanged.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:9 Or Give wings to Moab, / for she will fly away