Jeremiah 48:10
8 The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.
9 Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
11 Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
- KJV
- Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
- WEB
- “Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
- ASV
- Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
- DARBY
- Cursed be he that doeth the work of Jehovah negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood!
- BLB
- Cursed is the one doing the work of YHWH slothfully, and cursed [is] the one withholding his sword from blood!
- ÅB
- Forbannet være den som gjør Herrens gjerning med lathet, og forbannet være den som holder sitt sverd fra blod!
- OTB
- Forbannet er den som gjør Herrens verk skjødesløst! Forbannet er den som holder sitt sverd tilbake fra blodutgytelse!
- B1930
- Forbannet være den som gjør Herrens gjerning med lathet, og forbannet være den som holder sitt sverd fra blod!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Read in context1 Kings 20:42
And the prophet said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, your life will be exchanged for his life, and your people for his people.’”
Read in context1 Samuel 15:9
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
Read in contextJudges 5:23
‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
Read in contextNumbers 31:14–18
But Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who were returning from the battle.
Read in context2 Kings 13:19
But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
Read in contextJeremiah 50:25
The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
Read in context1 Samuel 15:13–35
When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
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