Jeremiah 48:9 - Catholic Public Domain Version Give a blossom to Moab. For it will depart when it is blossoming. And its cities will become desolate and uninhabited. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 Give wings to Moab, and it would fly away because its towns lie in ruins, with no one left in them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate and uninhabited. English Standard Version 2016 “Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them. |
All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me.
And this shall be: like a bird fleeing away, and like fledglings flying from the nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the passage of Arnon.
And the Lord could no longer bear this, because of the evil of your intentions, and because of the abominations that you have done. And so, your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, and it is without an inhabitant, even to this day.
Equip yourself for the transmigration, O daughter who inhabitants Egypt. For Memphis will be in desolation, and it will be deserted and uninhabited.
Relinquish the cities, and live upon a rock, O inhabitants of Moab, and be like a dove nesting at the mouth of an opening at the summit.
Because of this, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, like the dryness of thorns, and piles of salt, and a desert, all the way to eternity. The remnant of my people will despoil them, and the residue of my nation will possess them.
And the two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly away, into the desert, to her place, where she is being nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.