Jeremiah 48:9
Good News Translation
Set up a tombstone for Moab; it will soon be destroyed. Its towns will be left in ruins, and no one will live there again." (

New Revised Standard Version
Set aside salt for Moab, for she will surely fall; her towns shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.

Contemporary English Version
Spread salt on the ground to kill the crops. Leave its towns in ruins, with no one living there.

New American Bible
Set up a tombstone for Moab; it will soon become a complete wasteland, Its cities turned into ruins where no one dwells.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

wings

Jeremiah 48:28 Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab: and be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in the highest place.

Psalm 11:1 Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Psalm 55:6 And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?

Isaiah 16:2 And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.

Revelation 12:14 And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the desert, unto her place, where she is nourished for a time and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

the cities

Jeremiah 46:19 Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.

Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.

Context
The Judgment on Moab
8And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: and the valleys shall perish, and the plains shall be destroyed, for the Lord hath spoken: 9Give a flower to Moab, for in its flower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be desolate, and uninhabited.10Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.…
Cross References
Psalm 11:1
Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Isaiah 16:2
And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.

Jeremiah 44:22
So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed: therefore your land is become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Jeremiah 48:28
Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, you that dwell in Moab: and be ye like the dove that maketh her nest in the mouth of the hole in the highest place.

Jeremiah 48:8
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