Jeremiah 48:6

In 11 translations

BSB

‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’Or like a wild donkey or like Aroer

KJV

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.the heath: or, a naked tree

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Flee, deliver yourselves, || You are as a naked thing in a wilderness.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE31:6

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

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WLC

נֻ֖סוּ מַלְּט֣וּ נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וְתִֽהְיֶ֕ינָה כַּעֲרוֹעֵ֖ר בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

LXX-Br31:6

Φεύγετε καὶ σώσατε τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν, καὶ ἔσεσθε ὥσπερ ὄνος ἄγριος ἐν ἐρήμῳ.

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• Jeremiah 17:6He 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.
• Jeremiah 51:6Flee 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.
• Job 30:3–7Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night. They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food. They were banished from among men,…
• Luke 17:31–33On 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. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to save his life will lose it,…
• Matthew 24:16–18then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house. And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
• Proverbs 6:4–5Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
• Genesis 19:17As 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!”
• Luke 3:7Then 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?
• Hebrews 6:18Thus 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 strongly encouraged.
• Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

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