Jeremiah 48:6 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 48:6

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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12 verses on the floor

Genesis 19:17
And 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.
Jeremiah 17:6
For 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 30:3–7
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Jeremiah 51:6
Flee 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.
Psalms 11:1
In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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They exhort one another to flee. heath--or the juniper (see on 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].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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