Jeremiah 48:6 “‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert. ’”

Jeremiah 48:6

‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert. ’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Flee and saue your liues, and be like vnto the heath in the wildernesse.

Darby 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.

Bible in Basic English

Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.

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Cross references

“Flee”

Jeremiah 51:6 Genesis 19:17 Psalm 11:1 Matthew 24:16–18 Luke 3:7 Luke 17:31–33

Jeremiah 51:6 · BSB

Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

Genesis 19:17 · BSB

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Psalm 11:1 · BSB

In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

Matthew 24:16–18 · BSB

then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Luke 3:7 · BSB

Then John 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 17:31–33 · BSB

On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.

“be like”

Jeremiah 17:6 Job 30:3–7

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Job 30:3–7 · BSB

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

7Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.

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