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15 Moab is destroyed,
    and his towns have gone up,
and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering,”
    declares[a] the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name.
16 “The disaster of Moab is near to come,
    and his disaster approaches very quickly.[b]
17 Mourn for him, all his surroundings,
    and all those who knew his name.
Say, ‘How the staff of might is broken,
    the staff of glory.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:15 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 48:16 Literally “hastens greatly”