(A)Flee, save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
“For because of your (B)trust in your own achievements and treasures,
Even you yourself will be captured;
And (C)Chemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
“A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the (D)plateau will be destroyed,
As the Lord has said.

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Flee!(A) Run for your lives;
    become like a bush[a] in the desert.(B)
Since you trust in your deeds and riches,(C)
    you too will be taken captive,
and Chemosh(D) will go into exile,(E)
    together with his priests and officials.(F)
The destroyer(G) will come against every town,
    and not a town will escape.
The valley will be ruined
    and the plateau(H) destroyed,
    because the Lord has spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:6 Or like Aroer