Like a bird fleeing, forced from the nest, the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.
Jeremiah 48:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Make Moab a salt marsh, , for she will run away; her towns will become a desolation, without inhabitant. 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. 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. 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. |
Like a bird fleeing, forced from the nest, the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.
The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.
Get your bags ready for exile, inhabitant of Daughter Egypt! For Memphis will become a desolation, uninhabited ruins.
Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs, residents of Moab! Be like a dove that nests inside the mouth of a cave.
Therefore, as I live – this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel – Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah: a place overgrown with weeds, a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.
The woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent’s presence to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, times, and half a time.