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Jeremiah 48:9

MoabMoab

7 Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.

8 The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.

Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.

10 Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

11 Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
KJV
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
WEB
Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.
ASV
Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
DARBY
Give wings unto Moab, that she may flee and get away; and the cities thereof shall become a desolation, without inhabitant.
BLB
Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away, and her cities will become as a desolation without one dwelling in them.
ÅB
Gi Moab vinger! For i flyvende fart skal det dra ut, og dets byer skal bli til en ørken, så ingen bor i dem.
OTB
Gi vinger til Moab, for hun skal bli lagt øde; hennes byer skal bli øde, uten innbyggere.
B1930
Gi Moab vinger! For i flyvende fart skal det dra ut, og dets byer skal bli til en ørken, så ingen bor i dem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 16:2

    Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

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  • Psalms 11:1

    In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

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  • Jeremiah 48:28

    Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.

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  • Zephaniah 2:9

    Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

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  • Revelation 12:14

    But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.

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  • Jeremiah 46:19

    Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

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  • Psalms 55:6

    I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

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