OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 48:9

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Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.

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Verse 9. Flower: an usual ceremony at funerals. A. Lapide. Menochius.—Manibus date lilia plenis. Æn. vi.—Hebrew “wings.” Prot. “signs.” Septuagint ( Bible.) “that they may know how to return.” Let Moab flee. Calmet.

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