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Jeremiah 48:6
6Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Flee for your lives! Hide in the wilderness!
Context of Jeremiah 48:6
4Moab will be broken; her little ones will cry out. 5They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping bitterly as they go; on the road down to Horonaim anguished cries over the destruction are heard. Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush in the desert. 7Since you trust in your deeds and riches, you too will be taken captive, and Chemosh will go into exile, together with his priests and officials. 8The destroyer will come against every town, and not a town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed, because the Lord has 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 51:6“Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins. It is time for the Lord’s vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.
- Genesis 19:17As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
- Psalms 11:1In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain.
- Proverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
- Matthew 24:16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
- Luke 3:7John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Luke 17:31On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
- Hebrews 6:18God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.
- Jeremiah 17:6That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Job 30:3Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
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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