[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Jeremiah 48:9 - King James 2000 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them. 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. |
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of the Arnon.
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.
O you daughter dwelling in Egypt, prepare yourself to go into captivity: for Memphis shall become a waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
O you that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the cave’s mouth.
Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of weeds, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.