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Jeremiah 
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Day 497

"I shall send him wine-workers"

Text: Jeremiah 48:12

MOAB SHALL BE ASHAMED OF CHEMOSH

The Moabites never expected that they would be conquered and suffer such humiliation. The Babylonians would humble Moab greatly.

“‘Therefore behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD,
‘That I shall send him wine-workers
Who will tip him over
And empty his vessels
And break the bottles.
Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,
As the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.'”
Jeremiah 48:12-13

1. “‘Therefore behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD, ‘that I shall send him
wine-workers who will tip him over and empty his vessels and break the bottles'”

a) This was a prophecy to be fulfilled in the coming days.

b) The Babylonians were now compared to “wine-workers”.

i) As wine is tipped out from one bottle to another,
so Moab would experience one defeat after another.

ii) With each tipping, the vessels would be emptied out.

iii) The dregs would be left behind.

c) In normal circumstances, the wine would be better.

i) Moab however would not become better.

ii) The bottles would be broken.

iii) Moab would be no more than a broken bottle.

2. “Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel,
their confidence”

a) Moab had believed in its deity called Chemosh.

i) Children were sacrificed to this blood-thirsty god.

ii) Moab would be filled with shame,
for Chemosh cannot help the nation to fend off the Babylonians.

b) Israel had once worshipped Baal at Bethel.

i) Israel’s confidence was in Baal.

ii) But Baal could not forestall the conquest of Israel by the Assyrians.

c) Moab would feel the same sense of anguish and shame as Israel did.

i) Their faith in their idol was in vain.

ii) Moab would be humiliated by their defeat in the hands of the Babylonians.