For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
you also will be taken.
Chemosh will go out into captivity,
his priests and his princes together.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 48:7 in context
Jeremiah 48:4–10
4
Moab is destroyed.
Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5
For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping.
For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
6
Flee! Save your lives!
Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.
7
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For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures,
you also will be taken.
Chemosh will go out into captivity,
his priests and his princes together.
8
The destroyer will come on every city,
and no city will escape;
the valley also will perish,
and the plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.
9
Give wings to Moab,
that she may fly and get herself away:
and her cities will become a desolation,
without anyone to dwell in them.
10
“Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD negligently;
and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
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