This is a textual variant (Ketiv/Qere) in Jeremiah 48:44, part of an oracle against Moab describing inescapable judgment. The consonantal text reads 'the fleeing one,' though scribal tradition proposes an alternate reading. Prophecies against Moab frequently employ hunting and escape imagery—those who flee the terror fall into the pit, those who climb from the pit are caught in the snare. The vocabulary of flight pervades Jeremiah's judgment oracles, where even swift feet cannot outrun divine decree.