Moab shall be destroyed... — What is predicted is not annihilation (see Jeremiah 48:47), but the loss of national independence. And the cause of this punishment is once more asserted. With Moab, as with other nations, it was her self-exalting pride that called for chastisement.
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Jeremiah 48:42
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.