7 Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials. 8 The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said. 9 Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
Jeremiah 48:7–9
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