Moab will be praised(A) no more;
    in Heshbon[a](B) people will plot her downfall:
    ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’(C)
You, the people of Madmen,[b] will also be silenced;
    the sword will pursue you.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:2 The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
  2. Jeremiah 48:2 The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.

There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

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