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description: "\"For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. Kerioth is taken, and the strong\" — Read Jeremiah 48:40-41 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon."
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## Jeremiah 48:40-41 in Context (Verses 37–44 KJV)
 
 [37 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/37) For every head *shall be* bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands *shall be* cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.*
 
 [38 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/38) *There shall be* lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein *is* no pleasure, saith the LORD.
 
 [39 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/39) They shall howl, *saying*, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.*
 
 [40 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/40) For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
 
 [41 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/41) Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.*
 
 [42 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/42) And Moab shall be destroyed from *being* a people, because he hath magnified *himself* against the LORD.
 
 [43 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/43) Fear, and the pit, and the snare, *shall be* upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
 
 [44 ](/kjv/jeremiah/48/44) He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, *even* upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
 
[Jeremiah 47](/kjv/jeremiah/47) [Jeremiah 49](/kjv/jeremiah/49)

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