Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For as for the daughters of Moab, they shall be as a trembling bird, that is put out of her nest: for they shall carry them unto Arnon.

New American Standard Bible

Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings,
The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

King James Version

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Holman Bible

Like a bird fleeing,
forced from the nest,
the daughters of Moab
will be at the fords of the Arnon.

International Standard Version

Like fluttering birds, like an abandoned nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.

A Conservative Version

For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

American Standard Version

For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Amplified


For like wandering birds or scattered nestlings,
The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.

Bible in Basic English

For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.

Darby Translation

And it shall be that as a wandering bird, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Julia Smith Translation

And it shall be as the bird fleeing, the nest cast out, the daughters of Moab shall be from the passages to Arnon.

King James 2000

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of the Arnon.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And this shall be: like a bird fleeing [from] a thrust away nest shall be the daughters of Moab [at the] fords of Arnon.

Modern King James verseion

For it shall be as a fleeing bird cast out of the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

NET Bible

At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.

New Heart English Bible

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

The Emphasized Bible

Yet shall it be that - Like wandering birds from a nest cast forth, Shall be the daughters of Moab, at the fords of Amen.

Webster

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

World English Bible

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Youngs Literal Translation

And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, at fords of Arnon.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For it shall be, that, as a wandering
נדד 
Nadad 
Usage: 28

עוף 
`owph 
Usage: 71

שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

of the nest
קן 
Qen 
Usage: 13

so the daughters
בּת 
Bath 
Usage: 587

of Moab
מואב 
Mow'ab 
Usage: 181

shall be at the fords
מעברה מעבר 
Ma`abar 
Usage: 11

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Context Readings

Moab's Hopeless Situation

1 Send the Lord of the world a lamb, from the rock that lieth toward the desert, unto the hill of the daughter Zion. 2 For as for the daughters of Moab, they shall be as a trembling bird, that is put out of her nest: for they shall carry them unto Arnon. 3 Gather your counsel, come together in judgment; cover us with your shadow in the midday, as the night doth: hide the chased, and betray not them that are fled.



Cross References

Proverbs 27:8

He that oft times flitteth, is like a bird that forsaketh her nest.

Judges 11:18

And then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came along by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of the river of Arnon, and came not within the coasts of the Moabites: for Arnon was their utmost border.

Numbers 21:13-15

And they departed thence and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which river is in the wilderness, and cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 2:36

from Aroer upon the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city in the river, unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all unto us:

Deuteronomy 3:8

And thus we took, the same season, the land out of the hand of two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon

Deuteronomy 3:12

And when we had conquered this land the same time, I gave from Aroer, which is upon the river of Arnon, and half mount Gilead and the cities thereof unto the Reubenites, and Gadites.

Joshua 13:16

And their coasts were from Aroer that lieth on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that lieth in the river, and all the plain about Medeba,

Isaiah 13:14

And Babylon shall be as a hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land.

Jeremiah 48:20

O Moab is confounded and overcome. Mourn and cry, tell it out at Arnon, that Moab is destroyed.

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