Jeremiah 48:15 · KJV
“Moab is spoiled, and gone up {out of} her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name {is} the LORD of hosts. {his...: Heb. the choice of}”
— Jeremiah 48:15
How say ye, We {are} mighty and strong men for the war?
The calamity of Moab {is} near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
Jeremiah 48 — Context
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
14How say ye, We {are} mighty and strong men for the war?
15Moab is spoiled, and gone up {out of} her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name {is} the LORD of hosts. {his...: Heb. the choice of}
16The calamity of Moab {is} near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.
17All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, {and} the beautiful rod!
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 46:18
{As} I live, saith the King, whose name {is} the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor {is} among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, {so} shall he come.
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise {men}, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name {is} the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 40:30-31
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Malachi 1:14
But cursed {be} the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I {am} a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name {is} dreadful among the heathen. {which...: Heb. in whose flock is}
Psalms 24:8-10
Who {is} this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Jeremiah 48:4
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Jeremiah 48:8-25
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.