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“Wail, Heshbon, because Ai is destroyed.
    Cry out, daughters of Rabbah,
        put on sackcloth and lament.
Run back and forth inside the walls,
    for Milcom is going into exile
        along with his priests and his princes.
Why do you boast in your valleys?
Your valley is flowing away, faithless daughter,
    who trusted in her treasures,
        saying, ‘Who will come against me?’
Look, I’m bringing terror on you from all around you,”
    declares the Lord God of the Heavenly Armies.
“You will be driven out, fleeing recklessly,[a]
    and there will be no one to gather the fugitives.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:5 Lit. each one before him