Jeremiah 48:13-15

Contemporary English Version

¹³Then you will be ashamed,
because your god Chemosh
cannot save you,
just as Bethel^[a] could not help
the Israelites.

¹⁴You claim that your soldiers
    are strong and brave.
¹⁵But I am the Lord,
    the all-powerful King,
and I promise that enemies
    will overpower your towns.
Even your best warriors
    will die in the battle.

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Footnotes

48.13 Bethel: It may refer to the Phoenician or Canaanite god of that name; or it may refer to the town where people of the northern kingdom worshiped at a local shrine (see 1 Kings 12.26-30).