Jeremiah 48:6
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Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.

Flee

Jeremiah 51:6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved.

Genesis 19:17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

Psalm 11:1 Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Proverbs 6:4,5 Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. . . .

Matthew 24:16-18 Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: . . .

Luke 3:7 He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 17:31-33 In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. . . .

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

be like

Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.

Job 30:3-7 Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. . . .

the heath.

Context
The Judgment on Moab
5For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction. 6Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.7For because thou hast trusted in thy bulwarks, and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.…
Cross References
Genesis 19:17
And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.

Jeremiah 51:6
Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved.

Lexicon
‘Flee!
נֻ֖סוּ (nu·sū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5127: To flit, vanish away

Run
מַלְּט֣וּ (mal·lə·ṭū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4422: To be smooth, to escape, to release, rescue, to bring forth young, emit sparks

for your lives!
נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם (nap̄·šə·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

Become
וְתִֽהְיֶ֕ינָה (wə·ṯih·ye·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

like a juniper
כַּעֲרוֹעֵ֖ר (ka·‘ă·rō·w·‘êr)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6176: (probably a tree or bush) perhaps juniper

in the desert.’
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech


Additional Translations
‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.

Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the wilderness.

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.
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