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            “Run away! Run for your lives!
                Run like a wild donkey in the desert.”
Since you trust the things you do and your treasures,
    you will be captured.
    Chemosh will go into captivity with all its priests and officials.
The destroyer will come to every city, and no city will escape.
    The valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be laid waste
    as Yahweh has threatened.

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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