I trust the Lord.\par So why did you tell me \{to run and hide\}?\par \{You told me,\}\par “Fly like a bird to your mountain!”\par
Jeremiah 48:9 - Easy To Read Version Spread salt {\cf2\super [380]} over the fields in Moab.\par The country will be an empty desert.\par Moab’s towns will become empty.\par No people will live in them.\par 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. |
I trust the Lord.\par So why did you tell me \{to run and hide\}?\par \{You told me,\}\par “Fly like a bird to your mountain!”\par
Oh, I wish I had wings like a dove.\par I would fly away\par and find a place to rest.\par
The women of Moab {\cf2\super [166]} try to cross\par the river Arnon.\par They run from one place to another\par looking for help.\par They are like little birds lost on the ground\par after their nest has fallen from a tree.\par
Then the Lord could not be patient with you any longer. The Lord hated the terrible things you did. So the Lord made your country an empty desert. No person lives there now. Other people say bad things about that country.
People of Egypt, pack your things.\par Get ready for captivity.\par Why? Because Memphis will be\par a ruined, empty land.\par Those cities will be destroyed,\par and no person will live there.\par
People in Moab, leave your towns.\par Go live among the rocks;\par be like a dove that makes its nest\par at the opening of a cave.”\par
So, as sure as I am alive, Moab and the people of Ammon will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. {\cf2\super [17]} I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel. And I promise those countries will be completely destroyed forever. Their land will be overgrown with weeds. Their land will be like the land covered with salt by the Dead Sea. The survivors of my people will take that land and all the things left in it.”
But the woman was given the two wings of a great eagle. Then she could fly to the place that was prepared for her in the desert. In that place she would be taken care of for three and one-half years. There she would be away from the snake.