New English Translation
Jeremiah 48:6
6They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’
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
4“Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress. 5Indeed they will climb the slopes of Luhith, weeping continually as they go. For on the road down to Horonaim they will hear the cries of distress over the destruction. They will hear, ‘Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!’ 7“Moab, you trust in the things you do and in your riches. So you too will be conquered. Your god Chemosh will go into exile along with his priests and his officials. 8The destroyer will come against every town. Not one town will escape. The towns in the valley will be destroyed. The cities on the high plain will be laid waste. I, the Lord, have spoken!
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נֻ֖סוּ מַלְּט֣וּ נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וְתִֽהְיֶ֕ינָה כַּעֲרוֹעֵ֖ר בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:6
- Jeremiah 51:6Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. Flee to save your lives. Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins. For it is time for the Lord to wreak his revenge. He will pay Babylonia back for what she has done.
- Genesis 19:17When they had brought them outside, they said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
- Psalms 11:1In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, “Flee to a mountain like a bird!
- Proverbs 6:4Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
- Matthew 24:16then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.
- Luke 3:7So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Luke 17:31On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.
- Hebrews 6:18so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
- Jeremiah 17:6They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.
- Job 30:3gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
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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