en_tn_condensed/jer/48/44.md

fall into the pit ... caught in the trap

Here "the pit" and "the trap" represent all the different bad things that will happen to the people. People will run away to escape one bad thing but they will just experience another bad thing. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche)

in the year of

Here, "year" could be translated as "time" or "season" or "time period."