Jeremiah 48:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.”
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“Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Give wings to Moab, for she utterly goeth out, And her cities are for a desolation, Without an inhabitant in them.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 48:9 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
- Psalms 55:6I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
- Isaiah 16:2Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
- Jeremiah 46:19Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
- Jeremiah 48:28Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Revelation 12:14But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
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