World English Bible
Jeremiah 48:9
“Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 48
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.
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.
Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
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.
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Warnings of Jerusalem’s fall and promises of a new covenant.
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