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30 Run and hide,
you people of the desert
    who live in villages![a]
Nebuchadnezzar has big plans
    for you.
31 You have no city walls
    and no neighbors to help,
yet you think you're safe—
    so I told him to attack.
32 Then your camels
and large herds
    will be yours no longer.

People of the Arabian Desert,[b]
disaster will strike you
    from every side,
and you will be scattered
    everywhere on earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 49.30 villages: See the note at 49.28.
  2. 49.32 People of the Arabian Desert: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

30 “Flee quickly away!
    Stay in deep caves,(A) you who live in Hazor,(B)
declares the Lord.
“Nebuchadnezzar(C) king of Babylon has plotted against you;
    he has devised a plan against you.

31 “Arise and attack a nation at ease,
    which lives in confidence,”
declares the Lord,
“a nation that has neither gates nor bars;(D)
    its people live far from danger.
32 Their camels(E) will become plunder,
    and their large herds(F) will be spoils of war.
I will scatter to the winds(G) those who are in distant places[a](H)
    and will bring disaster on them from every side,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:32 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads