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


In Context

6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

8 The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.

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

10 Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

48:9Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste ; her towns will become desolate, with no one to live in them.

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 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.