Because you trust in your works and treasures,
you will be captured also.
Chemosh(A) will go into exile
with his priests and officials.(B)
The destroyer(C) will move against every town;
not one town will escape.
The valley will perish,
and the plain will be annihilated,(D)
as the Lord has said.
Make Moab a salt marsh,[a](E)
for she will run away;[b]
her towns will become a desolation,
without inhabitant.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 48:9 LXX reads a sign; Vg reads a flower; Syr, Tg read a crown
  2. 48:9 Hb obscure

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