Jeremiah 48:42
Good News Translation
Moab will be destroyed and will no longer be a nation, because it rebelled against me.

New Revised Standard Version
Moab shall be destroyed as a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
You are finished as a nation, because you dared oppose me, the LORD.

New American Bible
Moab shall be wiped out, a people no more, because it set itself over against the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried against the Lord.

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And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried against the Lord.

Jeremiah 46:28 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.

) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct people from all the nations of the world!

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Jeremiah 48:2 There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee.

Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: for I will utterly consume all the nations, among which I have scattered thee: but I will not utterly consume thee: but I will chastise thee in judgment, that thou mayst not seem to thyself innocent.

Esther 3:8-13 And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people scattered through all the provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from another, that use new laws and ceremonies, and moreover despise the king's ordinances: and thou knowest very well that it is not expedient for thy kingdom that they should grow insolent by impunity. . . .

Psalm 83:4-8 They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. . . .

Isaiah 7:8 But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people:

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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Jeremiah 48:26-30 Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision. . . .

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished. For the determination is made.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

Revelation 13:6 And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven.

Context
The Judgment on Moab
41Carioth is taken, and the strongholds are won: and the heart of the valiant men of Moab in that day shall be as the heart of a woman in labour. 42And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried against the Lord.43Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.…
Cross References
Psalm 83:4
They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

Isaiah 16:14
And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.

Isaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 48:2
There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee.

Jeremiah 48:26
Make him drunk, because he lifted up himself against the Lord: and Moab shall dash his hand in his own vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

Ezekiel 35:13
And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.

Jeremiah 48:41
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