48:44 Anyone who flees at the sound of terror
will fall into a pit.
Anyone who climbs out of the pit
will be caught in a trap. 1
For the time is coming
when I will punish the people of Moab. 2
I, the Lord, affirm it! 3
52:12 On the tenth 4 day of the fifth month, 5 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 6 who served 7 the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.
1 sn Jer 48:43-44a are in the main the same as Isa 24:17-18 which shows that the judgment was somewhat proverbial. For a very similar kind of argumentation see Amos 5:19; judgment is unavoidable.
2 tn Heb “For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, the year of her punishment.”
3 tn Heb “Oracle of the
4 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”
5 sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586
6 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
7 tn Heb “stood before.”