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Jeremiah 48:39

American Standard Version

How is it broken down! how do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.

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Jeremiah 48:39 in other translations

“How it is broken down!
How they wail!
How Moab has turned the back with shame!
So will Moab become a derision
and a terror to all who are around him.”

Jeremiah 48:39 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 48:39 in context

  1. 37For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
  2. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah.
  3. 39How is it broken down! how do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.
  4. 40For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.
  5. 41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.