Jeremiah 48:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Set aside salt for Moab, for she will surely fall; her towns shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Give wings to Moab, for [by that means only] she will flee and get away; her cities will be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

Common English Bible

⁹ Give wings to Moab, and it would fly away because its towns lie in ruins, with no one left in them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Give a blossom to Moab. For it will depart when it is blossoming. And its cities will become desolate and uninhabited.

Jeremiah 48:9 Cross References

Jeremiah 48:28

Leave the towns, and live on the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests on the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

Isaiah 16:2

Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

Psalm 11:1

In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains,

Revelation 12:14

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

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.

Jeremiah 46:19

Pack your bags for exile, sheltered daughter Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.

Psalm 55:6

And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the sight of your evil doings, the abominations that you committed; therefore your land became a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is to this day.