Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Run! Save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper 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.
A Conservative Version
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
American Standard Version
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath 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 the Ascent of Luhith
Will be climbed by [successive groups of] fugitives with continual weeping;
For on the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
“Run! Save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
“For because you have trusted in your works [your hand-made idols] and in your treasures [instead of in God],
Even you yourself will be captured;
And
Together with his priests and his princes.
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:6
“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;
And shall not see prosperity when it comes,
But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,
In an uninhabited salt land.
Jeremiah 51:6
Flee out of Babylon,
Let every one of you save his life!
Do not be destroyed in her punishment,
For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance;
He is going to pay her what she has earned.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, one [of the angels] said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, or stop anywhere in the entire valley; escape to the mountains [of Moab], or you will be consumed and swept away.”
Job 30:3-7
“They are gaunt with want and famine;
They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.
Psalm 11:1
How can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to your mountain;
Proverbs 6:4-5
Give no [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Matthew 24:16-18
Luke 3:7
So he began saying to the crowds who were coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of
Luke 17:31-33
Hebrews 6:18
so that by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge would have strong encouragement and indwelling strength to hold tightly to the hope set before us.