Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
- KJV Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
- NKJV “Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab In the latter days,” says the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
- NASB “Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab In the latter days,” declares the Lord. This is the extent of the judgment on Moab.
- NLT But I will restore the fortunes of Moab in days to come. I, the Lord, have spoken!” This is the end of Jeremiah’s prophecy concerning Moab.
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Quick answer
Yet the LORD promises to restore Moab's fortunes in the latter days, ending the judgment against her.
Overview
Remarkably, after extended judgment, God holds out hope of future restoration for Moab. This note of mercy shows that His purposes extend beyond wrath to redemption, even for the nations. It anticipates the gospel reach of God's grace to all peoples in the last days, gathered into blessing through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Jer 49:6Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Jer 49:39“Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Deut 31:29For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
- Dan 10:14Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”
- Deut 4:30When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
- Jer 30:24The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.
- Ezek 16:53–55But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.
- Job 19:25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
- Dan 2:28But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay on your bed were these:
- Isa 19:18–23In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.
- Hos 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
- Isa 18:7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
- Jer 46:26I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
- Num 24:14Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”
- Jer 12:15But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
- Isa 23:18Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
- Jer 23:20The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.
- Ezek 38:8After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
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