Jeremiah 48:9 “Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become d…”

Jeremiah 48:9

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

Other translations

King James Version

Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

World English Bible

Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.

American Standard Version

Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

Geneva Bible 1599

Giue wings vnto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shalbe desolate, without any to dwell therein.

Darby Translation

Give wings unto Moab, that she may flee and get away; and the cities thereof shall become a desolation, without inhabitant.

Young's Literal Translation

Give wings to Moab, for she utterly goeth out, And her cities are for a desolation, Without an inhabitant in them.

Bible in Basic English

Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.

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Cross references

“wings”

Jeremiah 48:28 Psalm 11:1 Isaiah 16:2 Psalm 55:6 Revelation 12:14

Jeremiah 48:28 · BSB

Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.

Psalm 11:1 · BSB

In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

Isaiah 16:2 · BSB

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

Psalm 55:6 · BSB

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

Revelation 12:14 · BSB

But 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.

“the cities”

Jeremiah 46:19 Zephaniah 2:9

Jeremiah 46:19 · BSB

Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

Zephaniah 2:9 · BSB

Therefore, 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 pe…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.

10Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.

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