Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
New American Standard Bible
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
King James Version
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Holman Bible
Be like a juniper bush
International Standard Version
Flee, save your lives, and you will be like a wild donkey in the desert.
American Standard Version
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Amplified
“Run! Save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
Bible in Basic English
Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.
Darby Translation
Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the wilderness.
Julia Smith Translation
Flee, save your souls, and ye shall be as ruins in the desert
King James 2000
Flee, save your lives, and be like the bush in the wilderness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Flee! Save your life! {For} you must not be like the juniper tree in the desert.
Modern King James verseion
Flee, save your lives, and be like a naked thing in the wilderness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
'Get you away, save your lives and be like unto the heath in the wilderness!'
NET Bible
They will hear, 'Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!'
New Heart English Bible
"Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness."
The Emphasized Bible
Flee deliver your own lives, - Then shall the women be as a shrub in the desert.
Webster
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
World English Bible
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Youngs Literal Translation
Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.
Interlinear
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Nephesh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 48:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Moab
5 For they shall go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping, for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 7 For, because thou have trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his rulers together.
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, 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 LORD's vengeance; he will render to 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, do not look behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain. Escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Job 30:3-7
They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Psalm 11:1
In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain.
Proverbs 6:4-5
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Matthew 24:16-18
then let those in Judea flee to the mountains.
Luke 3:7
He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be immersed by him, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?
Luke 17:31-33
In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his vessels in the house, let him not go down to take them up. And let him who is in the field likewise not return for the things behind.
Hebrews 6:18
So that by two immutable events, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, having fled for refuge to seize the hope being openly displayed.