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Jeremiah 48:43–44a

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48:43Terror, pits, and traps64 are in store

for the people who live in Moab.65

I, the Lord, affirm it!66

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Footnotes

  1. 64 There is an extended use of assonance here and in the parallel passage in Isa 24:17. The Hebrew text reads פַּחַד וָפַחַת וָפָח (pakhad vafakhat vafakh). The assonance is intended to underscore the extensive trouble that is in store for them.
  2. 65 Heb “are upon you, inhabitant of Moab.” This is another example of the rapid switch in person or direct address (apostrophe) in the midst of a third person description or prediction which the present translation typically keeps in the third person for smoother English style.
  3. 66 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Terror, pit, and snare

are before you, O inhabitant of Moab!

declares the Lord.

He who flees from the terror

shall fall into the pit,

and he who climbs out of the pit

shall be caught in the snare.

For I will bring these things upon Moab,

the year of their punishment,

declares the Lord.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Terror and pit and snare await you,

you people of Moab,”

declares the Lord.

“Whoever flees from the terror

will fall into a pit,

whoever climbs out of the pit

will be caught in a snare;

for I will bring on Moab

the year of her punishment,”

declares the Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Panic, pit, and trap

await you, resident of Moab.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

He who flees from the panic will fall in the pit,

and he who climbs from the pit

will be captured in the trap,

for I will bring against Moab

the year of their punishment.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Terror and traps and snares will be your lot,

O Moab,” says the Lord.

“Those who flee in terror will fall into a trap,

and those who escape the trap will step into a snare.

I will see to it that you do not get away,

for the time of your judgment has come,”

says the Lord.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Dread, and pit, and a trapping net are against you,

O inhabitant of Moab,” declares Yahweh.

“He who flees before the dread

will fall into the pit,

and the one who climbs up from the pit

will be caught in the trapping net,

for I will bring on Moab

the year of their punishment,” declares Yahweh.

KJV 1900King James Version

Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee,

O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit;

And he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare:

For I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.