9Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste ; her towns will become desolate, with no one to live in them.


In Context

6 Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush in the desert.

7 Since you trust in your deeds and riches, you too will be taken captive, and Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.

8 The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed, because the Lord has spoken.

9 Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste ; her towns will become desolate, with no one to live in them.

10 "A curse on him who is lax in doing the Lord 's work! A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!

11 "Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another- she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged.

Jeremiah 48:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

48:9Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings unto Moab, that she may flee and get away; and the cities thereof shall become a desolation, without inhabitant.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings unto Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away: for its cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings to Moab, for she utterly goeth out, And her cities are for a desolation, Without an inhabitant in them.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

48:9Give wings to Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.