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    Run for your lives! Save yourselves!
        Live in the desert like a juniper bush, alone and forsaken.
    You depended on your own works and your own wealth,
        and now you will be humbled and taken captive.
    Your so-called god, Chemosh, will go with you into exile
        along with his priests and officials.
    The destroyer is coming to each of your towns; none of them will escape.
        The valley will be ruined;
    The plateau will be destroyed
        because I, the Eternal One, have spoken.

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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