Parallel Verses
NET Bible
They will hear, 'Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!'
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.
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!'
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
Nuwc
Malat
Nephesh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 48:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Moab
5 Indeed they will climb the slopes of Luhith, weeping continually as they go. For on the road down to Horonaim they will hear the cries of distress over the destruction. 6 They will hear, 'Run! Save yourselves! Even if you must be like a lonely shrub in the desert!' 7 "Moab, you trust in the things you do and in your riches. So you too will be conquered. Your god Chemosh will go into exile along with his priests and his officials.
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:6
They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.
Jeremiah 51:6
Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. Flee to save your lives. Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins. For it is time for the Lord to wreak his revenge. He will pay Babylonia back for what she has done.
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"
Job 30:3-7
gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
Psalm 11:1
For the music director; by David. In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, "Flee to a mountain like a bird!
Proverbs 6:4-5
Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Matthew 24:16-18
then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.
Luke 3:7
So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Luke 17:31-33
On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.
Hebrews 6:18
so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.