Jeremiah 48:44

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 

Jeremiah 52:12

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.

[48:44]  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.

[48:44]  ² tn Heb “For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, the year of her punishment.”

[48:44]  ³ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[52:12]  ⁴ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12]  ⁵ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12]  ⁶ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “stood before.”