Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
The cities
Bible References
Wings
Jeremiah 48:28
O people of Moab, go away from the towns and take cover in the rock; be like the dove of the Arabah, which makes her living-place in holes.
Psalm 11:1
In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
Psalm 55:6
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
Isaiah 16:2
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.
Revelation 12:14
And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.
The cities
Jeremiah 46:19
O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.
Zephaniah 2:9
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.