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Jeremiah 48:28

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48:28Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab.

Go and live in the cliffs.

Be like a dove that makes its nest

high on the sides of a ravine.42

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Footnotes

  1. 42 Heb “in the sides of the mouth of a pit/chasm.” The translation follows the suggestion of J. Bright, Jeremiah (), 321. The point of the simile is inaccessibility.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,

O inhabitants of Moab!

Be like the dove that nests

in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks,

you who live in Moab.

Be like a dove that makes its nest

at the mouth of a cave.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Abandon the towns! Live in the cliffs,

residents of Moab!

Be like a dove

that nests inside the mouth of a cave.

NLTNew Living Translation

“You people of Moab,

flee from your towns and live in the caves.

Hide like doves that nest

in the clefts of the rocks.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Leave the towns and dwell on the rock,

O inhabitants of Moab,

and be like the dove,

it nests on the sides of the mouth of a ravine.

KJV 1900King James Version

O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,

And be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.