Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Jeremiah 48:14
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How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
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¶ How say ye, We [are] mighty and strong men for the war?
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“How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war’?
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How say ye, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
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Jeremiah 48
12 Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
13 Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
14 How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
15 Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
16 Moab’s calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.
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