A lion has gone up from his thicket;(A)
a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has left his lair
to make your land a waste.
Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.(B)

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A lion(A) has come out of his lair;(B)
    a destroyer(C) of nations has set out.
He has left his place
    to lay waste(D) your land.
Your towns will lie in ruins(E)
    without inhabitant.

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The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

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11 I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,(A)
a jackals’ den.(B)
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.

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11 “I will make Jerusalem a heap(A) of ruins,
    a haunt of jackals;(B)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah(C)
    so no one can live there.”(D)

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11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

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10 “This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin,(A) without people or animals—that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without people, without inhabitants, and without animals—there will be heard again

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10 “This is what the Lord says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.”(A) Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted,(B) inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more

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10 Thus saith the Lord; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

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22 I am about to give the command—this is the Lord’s declaration—and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it.(A) I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.”(B)

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22 I am going to give the order, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take(A) it and burn(B) it down. And I will lay waste(C) the towns of Judah so no one can live there.”

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22 Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

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“This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them(A)

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“This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You saw the great disaster(A) I brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah.(B) Today they lie deserted and in ruins(C)

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

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22 The Lord can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed,(A) so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.

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22 When the Lord could no longer endure(A) your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse(B) and a desolate waste(C) without inhabitants, as it is today.(D)

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22 So that the Lord could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

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19 Get your bags ready for exile,
inhabitant of Daughter Egypt!(A)
For Memphis will become a desolation,
uninhabited ruins.

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19 Pack your belongings for exile,(A)
    you who live in Egypt,
for Memphis(B) will be laid waste(C)
    and lie in ruins without inhabitant.

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19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

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Make Moab a salt marsh,[a](A)
for she will run away;[b]
her towns will become a desolation,
without inhabitant.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 48:9 LXX reads a sign; Vg reads a flower; Syr, Tg read a crown
  2. 48:9 Hb obscure

Put salt(A) on Moab,
    for she will be laid waste[a];(B)
her towns will become desolate,
    with no one to live in them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 48:9 Or Give wings to Moab, / for she will fly away

Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

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33 Hazor will become a jackals’ den,(A)
a desolation forever.
No one will live there;
no human being will stay in it even temporarily.(B)

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33 “Hazor(A) will become a haunt of jackals,(B)
    a desolate(C) place forever.
No one will live there;
    no people will dwell(D) in it.”

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33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

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