Moab will be praised no more;
    in Heshbon[a] people will plot her downfall:
    “Come, let us put an end to that nation.”
You, the people of Madmen,[b] will also be silenced;
    the sword will pursue you.
Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim,
    cries of great havoc and destruction.
Moab will be broken;
    her little ones will cry out.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:2 The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
  2. Jeremiah 48:2 The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.
  3. Jeremiah 48:4 Hebrew; Septuagint / proclaim it to Zoar