The Pillars of Three Faiths: Tanakh, Bible & Qu'ran. Various Authors

are innumerable.²⁴The daughter of Egypt is put to shame;She is delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

      ²⁵The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him; ²⁶and I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.

      ²⁷But fear not thou, O Jacob My servant,Neither be dismayed, O Israel;For, lo, I will save thee from afar,And thy seed from the land of their captivity;And Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease,And none shall make him afraid.²⁸Fear not thou, O Jacob My servant, saith the Lord,For I am with thee;For I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee,But I will not make a full end of thee;And I will correct thee in measure,But will not utterly destroy thee.

       47The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

      ²Thus saith the Lord:Behold, waters rise up out of the north,And shall become an overflowing stream,And they shall overflow the land and all that is therein,The city and them that dwell therein;And the men shall cry,And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.³At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,At the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels,The fathers look not back to their childrenFor feebleness of hands;⁴Because of the day that comethTo spoil all the Philistines,To cut off from Tyre and ZidonEvery helper that remaineth;For the Lord will spoil the Philistines,The remnant of the isle of Caphtor.⁵Baldness is come upon Gaza,Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley;How long wilt thou cut thyself?⁶O thou sword of the Lord,How long will it be ere thou be quiet?Put up thyself into thy scabbard,Rest, and be still.⁷How canst thou be quiet?For the Lord hath given it a charge;Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore,There hath He appointed it.

       48Of Moab.

      Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled;Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;Misgab is put to shame and dismayed.²The praise of Moab is no more;In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:'Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.'Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence;The sword shall pursue thee.³Hark! a cry from Horonaim,Spoiling and great destruction!⁴Moab is destroyed;Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.⁵For by the ascent of LuhithWith continual weeping shall they go up;For in the going down of HoronaimThey have heard the distressing cry of destruction.⁶Flee, save your lives,And be like a tamarisk in the wilderness. ⁷For, because thou hast trustedIn thy works and in thy treasures,Thou also shalt be taken;And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity,His priests and his princes together.⁸And 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.⁹Give wings unto Moab,For she must fly and get away;And her cities shall become a desolation,Without any to dwell therein.¹⁰Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord with a slack hand,And cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.¹¹Moab hath been at ease from his youth,And he hath settled on his lees,And hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,Neither hath he gone into captivity;Therefore his taste remaineth in him,And his scent is not changed.¹²Therefore, behold, the days come,Saith the Lord,That I will send unto him them that tilt up,And they shall tilt him up;And they shall empty his vessels,And break their bottles in pieces.¹³And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,As the house of Israel was ashamedOf Beth-el their confidence. ¹⁴How say ye: 'We are mighty men,And valiant men for the war'?¹⁵Moab is spoiled, and they are gone up into her cities,And his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,Saith the King,Whose name is the Lord of hosts.¹⁶The calamity of Moab is near to come,And his affliction hasteth fast.¹⁷Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him,And all ye that know his name;Say: 'How is the strong staff broken,The beautiful rod! '¹⁸O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon,Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst;For the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee,He hath destroyed thy strongholds.¹⁹O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch;Ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth;Say: 'What hath been done?'²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed;Wail and cry;Tell ye it in Arnon,That Moab is spoiled.

      ²¹And judgment is come upon the country of the Plain; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath; ²²and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim; ²³and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon; ²⁴and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

      ²⁵The horn of Moab is cut off,And his arm is broken,Saith the Lord.²⁶Make ye him drunken,For he magnified himself against the Lord;And Moab shall wallow in his vomit,And he also shall be in derision.²⁷For was not Israel a derision unto thee?Was he found among thieves?For as often as thou speakest of him,Thou waggest the head.²⁸O ye that dwell in Moab,Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock;And be like the dove that maketh her nestIn the sides of the pit's mouth. ²⁹We have heard of the pride of Moab;He is very proud;His loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness,And the assumption of his heart.³⁰I know his arrogancy, saith the Lord,That it is ill-founded;His boastings have wrought nothing well-founded.³¹Therefore will I wail for Moab;Yea, I will cry out for all Moab;For the men of Kir-heres shall my heart moan.³²With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee,O vine of Sibmah;Thy branches passed over the sea,They reached even to the sea of Jazer;Upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintageThe spoiler is fallen.³³And gladness and joy is taken awayFrom the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab;And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses;None shall tread with shouting;The shouting shall be no shouting.³⁴From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh,Even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice,From Zoar even unto Horonaim,A heifer of three years old;For the Waters of Nimrim alsoShall be desolate. ³⁵Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,Saith the Lord,Him that offereth in the high place,And him that offereth to his gods.³⁶Therefore my heart moaneth for MoabLike pipes, and my heart moaneth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres;Therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.³⁷For every head is bald,And every beard clipped;Upon all the hands are cuttings,And upon the loins sackcloth.³⁸On all the housetops of Moab and in the broad places thereofThere is lamentation every where;For I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure,Saith the Lord.³⁹'How is it broken down! ' wail ye!'How hath Moab turned the back with shame! 'So shall Moab become a derision and a dismayTo all that are round about him. ⁴⁰For thus saith the Lord:Behold, he shall swoop as a vulture,And shall spread out his wings against Moab.⁴¹The cities are taken,And the strongholds are seized,And the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that dayShall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.⁴²And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,Because he hath magnified himself against the Lord.⁴³Terror, and the pit, and the trap,Are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab,Saith the Lord.⁴⁴He that fleeth from the terrorShall fall into the pit;And he that getteth up out of the pitShall be taken in the trap;For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab,The year of their visitation, saith the Lord. ⁴⁵In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitivesStand without strength;For a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon,And a flame from the midst of Sihon,And it devoureth the corner of Moab,And the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.⁴⁶Woe unto thee, O Moab!The people of Chemosh is undone;For thy sons are taken away captive,And thy daughters into captivity.⁴⁷Yet will I turn the captivity of MoabIn the end of days, saith the Lord.

       Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

       49Of the children of Ammon.

      Thus saith the Lord:Hath Israel no sons?Hath he no heir?Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad,And his people dwell in the cities thereof?²Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,That I will cause an alarm of war to be heardAgainst Rabbah of the children of Ammon;And it shall become a desolate mound,And her daughters shall be burned with fire;Then shall Israel dispossess them that did dispossess him,Saith the Lord.³Wail, O