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Jeremiah delivers a stinging wordplay oracle against the Moabite town of Madmen — "thou shalt be cut down O Madmen the sword shall pursue thee" — as part of his longest catalog of judgment against any foreign nation naming dozens of Moabite cities one by one for destruction.
Jeremiah 48:2 turns the Moabite town of Madmen into a wordplay weapon: "Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee." The Hebrew name punningly suggests "dunghill," underscoring the humiliation God's judgment will bring. The verse opens with the line "We have heard a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction." Jeremiah 48 is the longest oracle against any foreign nation in the prophetic books — a sustained catalog of dozens of Moabite cities named one by one for destruction, lamenting that "Moab is destroyed and her cities ascend in smoke."
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