For the music director, a psalm of David. In Adonai I have taken shelter. How can you say to my soul: “Fly like a bird to your mountain?
Jeremiah 48:9 - Tree of Life Version Give wings to Moab, for she must fly and get away. Her cities will become a wasteland, with no one living 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. |
For the music director, a psalm of David. In Adonai I have taken shelter. How can you say to my soul: “Fly like a bird to your mountain?
For like fluttering birds, scattered from a nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon.
Then Adonai could no longer endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations that you committed! So your land has become a wasteland, a desolation and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
O daughter dwelling in Egypt, get your bags ready for exile! For Noph will become a ruin laid waste, uninhabited.
Inhabitants of Moab, leave the towns and dwell in crags— like a dove nesting in a cave’s mouth.
Therefore, as I live, declares Adonai-Tzva’ot God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom and Ammon like Gomorrah— a possession of weeds and a salt pit, a perpetual wasteland. The remainder of My people will plunder them. The remnant of My nation will dispossess them.
But the woman was given two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly away from the presence of the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is taken care of—for a time, times, and half a time.