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Zephaniah 2:8-9
I have heard the taunting of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their territory.Therefore, as I live— this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel— Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place overgrown with weeds, a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.
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Jeremiah 48:1-47
About Moab, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Woe to Nebo, because it is about to be destroyed; Kiriathaim will be put to shame; it will be taken captive. The fortress will be put to shame and dismayed!There is no longer praise for Moab; they plan harm against her in Heshbon: Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood. Also, Madmen, you will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.A voice cries out from Horonaim,“ devastation and great disaster!”Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.For on the Ascent to Luhith they will be weeping continually, and on the descent to Horonaim will be heard cries of distress over the destruction:Flee! Save your lives! Be like a juniper bush in the wilderness.Because you trust in your works and treasures, you will be captured also. Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.The destroyer will move against every town; not one town will escape. The valley will perish, and the plain will be annihilated, as the Lord has said.Make Moab a salt marsh, for she will run away; her towns will become a desolation, without inhabitant.The one who does the Lord’s business deceitfully is cursed, and the one who withholds his sword from bloodshed is cursed.Moab has been left quiet since his youth, settled like wine on its dregs. He hasn’t been poured from one container to another or gone into exile. So his taste has remained the same, and his aroma hasn’t changed.Therefore look, the days are coming— this is the Lord’s declaration— when I will send those to him, who will pour him out. They will empty his containers and smash his jars.Moab will be put to shame because of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was put to shame because of Bethel that they trusted in.How can you say,“ We are warriors— mighty men ready for battle”?The destroyer of Moab and its towns has come up, and the best of its young men have gone down to slaughter. This is the King’s declaration; Yahweh of Hosts is His name.Moab’s calamity is near at hand; his disaster is rushing swiftly.Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations, everyone who knows his name. Say: How the mighty scepter is shattered, the glorious staff!Come down from glory; sit on parched ground, resident of the daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.Stand by the highway and look, resident of Aroer! Ask him who is fleeing or her who is escaping: What happened?Moab is put to shame, indeed dismayed. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.“ Judgment has come to the land of the plateau— to Holon, Jahzah, Mephaath,Dibon, Nebo, Beth-diblathaim,Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, Beth-meon,Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of the land of Moab, those far and near.Moab’s horn is chopped off; his arm is shattered.” This is the Lord’s declaration.“ Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs, residents of Moab! Be like a dove that nests inside the mouth of a cave.We have heard of Moab’s pride, great pride, indeed— his insolence, arrogance, pride, and haughty heart.I know his outburst. This is the Lord’s declaration. It is empty. His boast is empty.Therefore, I will wail over Moab. I will cry out for Moab, all of it; he will moan for the men of Kir-heres.I will weep for you, vine of Sibmah, with more than the weeping for Jazer. Your tendrils have extended to the sea; they have reached to the sea and to Jazer. The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruit and grape harvest.Joy and celebration are taken from the fertile field and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses; no one will tread with shouts of joy. The shouting is not a shout of joy.“ There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices as far as Jahaz— from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah— because even the waters of Nimrim have become desolate.In Moab, I will stop”— this is the Lord’s declaration—“ the one who offers sacrifices on the high place and burns incense to his gods.Therefore, My heart moans like flutes for Moab, and My heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. And therefore, the wealth he has gained has perished.Indeed, every head is bald and every beard clipped; on every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.On all the rooftops of Moab and in her public squares, everyone is mourning because I have shattered Moab like a jar no one wants.” This is the Lord’s declaration.“ How broken it is! They wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is ashamed. Moab will become a laughingstock and a shock to all those around him.”For this is what the Lord says: He will swoop down like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab.The towns have been captured, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.Moab will be destroyed as a people because he has exalted himself against the Lord.Panic, pit, and trap await you, resident of Moab. This is the Lord’s declaration.He who flees from the panic will fall in the pit, and he who climbs from the pit will be captured in the trap, for I will bring against Moab the year of their punishment. This is the Lord’s declaration.Those who flee will stand exhausted in Heshbon’s shadow because fire has come out from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It will devour Moab’s forehead and the skull of the noisemakers.Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished because your sons have been taken captive and your daughters have gone into captivity.Yet, I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the last days. This is the Lord’s declaration. The judgment on Moab ends here.
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Isaiah 15:1-9
An oracle against Moab: Ar in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night. Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night.Dibon went up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba. Every head is shaved; every beard is cut off.In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails, falling down and weeping.Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far away as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out, and they tremble.My heart cries out over Moab, whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah; they go up the slope of Luhith weeping; they raise a cry of destruction on the road to Horonaim.The waters of Nimrim are desolate; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished.So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Wadi of the Willows.For their cry echoes throughout the territory of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; their wailing reaches Beer-elim.The waters of Dibon are full of blood, but I will bring on Dibon even more than this— a lion for those who escape from Moab, and for the survivors in the land.
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Ezekiel 25:8-9
This is what the Lord God says:“ Because Moab and Seir said,‘ Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,’therefore I am about to expose Moab’s flank beginning with its frontier cities, the pride of the land: Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.
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2 Kings 3 26-2 Kings 3 27
When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took 700 swordsmen with him to try to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not do it.So he took his firstborn son, who was to become king in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. Great wrath was on the Israelites, and they withdrew from him and returned to their land.
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Amos 1:3
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Damascus for three crimes, even four, because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.
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Amos 2:4
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept His statutes. The lies that their ancestors followed have led them astray.
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Isaiah 25:10
For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trampled in a dung pile.
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Micah 6:5
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab proposed, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from the Acacia Grove to Gilgal so that you may acknowledge the Lord’s righteous acts.
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Amos 2:6
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
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Deuteronomy 23:4-5
This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.
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Isaiah 11:14
But they will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the west. Together they will plunder the people of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.
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Amos 1:9
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Tyre for three crimes, even four, because they handed over a whole community of exiles to Edom and broke a treaty of brotherhood.
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Amos 1:6
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Gaza for three crimes, even four, because they exiled a whole community, handing them over to Edom.
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Psalms 83:4-7
They say,“ Come, let us wipe them out as a nation so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against You—the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
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Amos 1:11
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Edom for three crimes, even four, because he pursued his brother with the sword. He stifled his compassion, his anger tore at them continually, and he harbored his rage incessantly.
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2 Kings 3 9
So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out. After they had traveled their indirect route for seven days, they had no water for the army or their animals.
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Amos 1:13
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites for three crimes, even four, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
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Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, observing the wicked and the good.
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Numbers 22:1-25
The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan across from Jericho.Now Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous, and Moab dreaded the Israelites.So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian,“ This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. Balak said to him:“ Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land and are living right across from me.Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.”The elders of Moab and Midian departed with fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and reported Balak’s words to him.He said to them,“ Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the Lord tells me.” So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam.Then God came to Balaam and asked,“ Who are these men with you?”Balaam replied to God,“ Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent this message to me:‘ Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.’”Then God said to Balaam,“ You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s officials,“ Go back to your land, because the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”The officials of Moab arose, returned to Balak, and reported,“ Balaam refused to come with us.”Balak sent officials again who were more numerous and higher in rank than the others.They came to Balaam and said to him,“ This is what Balak son of Zippor says:‘ Let nothing keep you from coming to me,for I will greatly honor you and do whatever you ask me. So please come and put a curse on these people for me!’”But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak,“ If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the Lord my God to do anything small or great.Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me.”God came to Balaam at night and said to him,“ Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”When he got up in the morning, Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the officials of Moab.But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the Angel of the Lord took His stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.When the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing on the path with a drawn sword in His hand, she turned off the path and went into the field. So Balaam hit her to return her to the path.Then the Angel of the Lord stood in a narrow passage between the vineyards, with a stone wall on either side.The donkey saw the Angel of the Lord and pressed herself against the wall, squeezing Balaam’s foot against it. So he hit her once again.
