Jeremiah 48:42
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.”
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“Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Moab hath been destroyed from <FI>being<Fi> a people, For against Jehovah he exerted himself.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 48:42 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Esther 3:8Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
- Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
- Psalms 83:6the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
- Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Isaiah 7:8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
- Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- Jeremiah 48:2There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Jeremiah 48:26“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.
- Daniel 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
- Matthew 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
- Revelation 13:6And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.
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