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The Contemporary English Version has been described as a "user-friendly" and a "mission-driven" translation that can be read aloud without stumbling, heard without misunderstanding, and listened to with enjoyment and appreciation, because the language is contemporary and the style is lucid and lyrical.

You are finished as a nation, because you dared oppose me, the LORD. Terror, pits, and traps are waiting for you. If you are terrified and run, you will fall into a pit; and if you crawl out of the pit, you’ll get caught in a trap. The time has come for you to be punished. Near the city of Heshbon, where Sihon once ruled, tired refugees stand in shadows cast by the flames of their burning city. Soon, the towns on other hilltops, where those warlike people live, will
Jeremiah 48:42–47