Jeremiah 48:6
‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
BSB
ASV
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
KJV
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Flee, save your lives - The enemy is in full pursuit of you. Be like the heath - כערוער caaroer, “like Aroer;” which some take for a city, others for a blasted or withered tree. It is supposed that a place of this name lay towards the north, in the land of the Ammonites, on a branch of the river Jabbok; surrounded by deserts. Save yourselves by getting into the wilderness, where the pursuing foe will scarcely think it worth his while to follow you, as the wilderness itself must soon destroy you.
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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…
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then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
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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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You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.