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30 Quick, fly away!
Hide in deep caves, you who live in Hazor,
declares the Lord,
because Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has plotted against you,
and he has made plans to defeat you.
31 Arise! Attack a nation at ease, that lives without care,
declares the Lord,
a nation that has neither gates nor bars, that lives by itself.
32 Their camels will be plunder,
and their vast herds of livestock a prize.
I will scatter to all the winds those who live in distant places,[a]
and I will bring disaster on them from every side,
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:32 Or who have trimmed the corners of their hair. The uncertainty is whether the Hebrew term for cutting edges refers to borders or hair.