Jeremiah 48:6
What does Jeremiah 48:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 48:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the wilderness.
Context
v.5For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
v.6This passage
v.7For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 11:1
In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Fleeasa bird to your mountain;
- Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
- 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, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Jeremiah 51:6
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
- 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.
- Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
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