American Standard Version
Jeremiah 48:6
6Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 48:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
- New International Version (NIV)Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush in the desert.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Flee, save your lives! And be like the juniper in the wilderness.
Context of Jeremiah 48:6
4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. 5For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 7For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together. 8And the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Jehovah hath spoken.
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נֻ֖סוּ מַלְּט֣וּ נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וְתִֽהְיֶ֕ינָה כַּעֲרוֹעֵ֖ר בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:6
- Jeremiah 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
- Genesis 19:17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
- Psalms 11:1In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Fleeasa bird to your mountain;
- Proverbs 6:4Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
- Matthew 24:16then let them that are in Judæa flee unto the mountains:
- Luke 3:7He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Luke 17:31In that day, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and let him that is in the field likewise not return back.
- Hebrews 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
- Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Job 30:3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Flee, save your lives - The enemy is in full pursuit of you. Be like the heath - כערוער caaroer, "like Aroer;" which some take for a city, others for a blasted or withered tree. It is supposed that a place of this name lay towards the north, in the land of the Ammonites, on a branch of the river Jabbok; surrounded by deserts. Save yourselves by getting into the wilderness, where the pursuing foe will scarcely think it worth his while to follow you, as the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Like the heath - Or, Like a destitute man. See the marginal reference note.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6Luhith was another small village near Horonaim. The sadness from oppression would touch even the smallest places.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. They exhort one another to flee. heath--or the juniper (see on Jr 17:6). Maurer translates, "Be like one naked in the wilderness." But the sense is, Live in the wilderness like the heath, or juniper; do not "trust in" walls (Jr 48:7) [Grotius]. (Compare Mt 24:16-18).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 48
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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