Jeremiah 48:6 Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush in the desert.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush in the desert.

English Standard Version
Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert!

New American Standard Bible
"Flee, save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Flee! Save your lives! Be like a juniper bush in the wilderness.

International Standard Version
Flee, save your lives, and you will be like a wild donkey in the desert.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.

Cross References

Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay you in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Jeremiah 51:6
Flee out of the middle 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 to her a recompense.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

48:1-13. The Chaldeans are to destroy the Moabites. We should be thankful that we are required to seek the salvation of men's lives, and the salvation of their souls, not to shed their blood; but we shall be the more without excuse if we do this pleasant work deceitfully. The cities shall be laid in ruins, and the country shall be wasted. There will be great sorrow. There will be great hurry. If any could give wings to sinners, still they could not fly out of the reach of Divine indignation. There are many who persist in unrepented iniquity, yet long enjoy outward prosperity. They had been long corrupt and unreformed, secure and sensual in prosperity. They have no changes of their peace and prosperity, therefore their hearts and lives are unchanged, Ps 55:19.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. They exhort one another to flee.

heath—or the juniper (see on [977]Jer 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 (Jer 48:7) [Grotius]. (Compare Mt 24:16-18).