Jeremiah 48:7 “Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be capture…”

Jeremiah 48:7

Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

World English Bible

For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also will be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

American Standard Version

For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Geneva Bible 1599

For because thou hast trusted in thy workes and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken, and Chemosh shall goe forth into captiuitie with his Priestes and his princes together.

Darby Translation

For because thou hast confided in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken, and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

Young's Literal Translation

For, because of thy trusting in thy works, And in thy treasures, even thou art captured, And gone out hath Chemosh in a removal, His priests and his heads together.

Bible in Basic English

For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.

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Cross references

“because”

Jeremiah 9:23 Psalm 52:7 Hosea 10:13 1 Timothy 6:17 Jeremiah 13:25 Psalm 40:4

Jeremiah 9:23 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

Psalm 52:7 · BSB

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

Hosea 10:13 · BSB

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

1 Timothy 6:17 · BSB

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

Jeremiah 13:25 · BSB

This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

Psalm 40:4 · BSB

Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

“Chemosh”

Numbers 21:29 Jeremiah 48:13 Jeremiah 48:46 1 Kings 11:33 Jeremiah 43:12 Judges 11:24

Numbers 21:29 · BSB

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Jeremiah 48:13 · BSB

Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

Jeremiah 48:46 · BSB

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.

1 Kings 11:33 · BSB

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor k…

Jeremiah 43:12 · BSB

I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garm…

Judges 11:24 · BSB

Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.

“his priests”

Jeremiah 49:3

Jeremiah 49:3 · BSB

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert. ’

8The 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.

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