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But, because you trust in your deeds and your riches,
    you will also be captured.
Chemosh[a] 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[b] is what the Lord has said!
“Put salt[c] on Moab[d]
    for she will surely fall.
Her towns will become desolate places,[e]
    without any inhabitants in them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:7 Chemosh was the chief Moabite deity.
  2. Jeremiah 48:8 The Heb. lacks this.
  3. Jeremiah 48:9 Or take wing
  4. Jeremiah 48:9 I.e. as a sign of destruction
  5. Jeremiah 48:9 Lit. a desolation