Jeremiah 48:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate and uninhabited.

Jeremiah 48:9 Cross References

Psalm 11:1

In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

Psalm 55:6

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Isaiah 16:2

For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.

Jeremiah 44:22

so the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Jeremiah 46:19

O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 48:28

O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the holes mouth.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.

Revelation 12:14

And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.