Jeremiah 48:28
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
28 Leave the towns, and live on the rock,
O inhabitants of Moab!
Be like the dove that nests
on the sides of the mouth of a gorge.
Jeremiah 48:28
Authorized (King James) Version
28 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.
Jeremiah 48:28
New English Translation
28 Leave 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.[a]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 48:28 tn Heb “in the sides of the mouth of a pit/chasm.” The translation follows the suggestion of J. Bright, Jeremiah (AB), 321. The point of the simile is inaccessibility.
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