KJV King James Version
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
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Jeremiah 48:6
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
WEB World English Bible
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
ASV American Standard Version
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 48
3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together.
8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
9 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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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, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.Job 30:3-7For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.Jeremiah 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.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.Matthew 24:16-18Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:Luke 3:7Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?Psalm 11:1To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?Proverbs 6:4-5Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.Hebrews 6:18That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:Luke 17:31-33In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
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