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Flee, save your lives,
    and you will be like a wild donkey[a] in the desert.
But, because you trust in your deeds and your riches,
    you will also be captured.
Chemosh[b] will go out into exile,
    along with his priests and officials.
A destroyer will come to every town
    and no town will escape.
The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed.”
    This[c] is what the Lord has said!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:6 So LXX; MT reads Aroer
  2. Jeremiah 48:7 Chemosh was the chief Moabite deity.
  3. Jeremiah 48:8 The Heb. lacks this.