Jeremiah 48:46-47

48:46 Moab, you are doomed! ¹ 

You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed.

Your sons will be taken away captive.

Your daughters will be carried away into exile. ² 

48:47 Yet in days to come

I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” ³ 

says the Lord. ⁴ 

The judgment against Moab ends here.

[48:46]  ¹ tn Heb “Woe to you, Moab.” For the usage of this expression see 4:13, 31; 13:17 and the translator’s note on 4:13 and 10:19.

[48:46]  ² tn Heb “Your sons will be taken away into captivity, your daughters into exile.”

[48:47]  ³ tn See 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.

[48:47]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”