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Jeremiah 48:47
Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD addresses the nation of Moab at the conclusion of a prolonged oracle of judgment. This declaration follows the announcement of exile for Moab’s sons and daughters.
The words — שַׁבְתִּי (shav.Ti) translates literally as “I will turn back,” paired with שְׁבוּת (she.vut), meaning “captivity.” The phrase אַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים (acha.Rit hai.ya.Mim) denotes “the end of the days” or “latter days.”
The thread — This restoration formula recurs in Jeremiah 49:6 for the Ammonites and Jeremiah 49:39 for Elam. The temporal marker aligns with the prophetic warning in Numbers 24:14 regarding future actions against Israel’s people.
Why it lands — The text states a future reversal of exile without detailing the mechanism or conditions. It demands recognition that divine judgment is bounded by a sovereign timeline.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 49:6 Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 49:39 “Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.
- Numbers 24:14 Now 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.”
- Deuteronomy 4:30 When 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.
- Deuteronomy 31:29 For 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.”
- Job 19:25 But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
- Isaiah 18:7 At 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.
- Isaiah 19:18 In 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.
- Isaiah 23:18 Yet 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.
- Jeremiah 12:15 But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.