Fear, and the pit, and the snare. An alliteration in the Hebrew, which occurs again in Isaiah 24:17. In German it can be represented better than in English—e.g. by Hitzig's "grauen, graben, garn." All primitive poetry delights in such alliterations.
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Jeremiah 48:43
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