Jeremiah 48:6
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
KJV
Fugite, salvate animas vestras, et eritis quasi myricæ in deserto :
Vulgate
καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς ἀπάντησιν αὐτοῖς Ἰσμαήλ, αὐτοὶ ἐπορεύοντο καὶ ἔκλαιον, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Εἰσέλθετε πρὸς Γοδολίαν.
LXX
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
ASV
נֻ֖סוּ מַלְּט֣וּ נַפְשְׁ/כֶ֑ם וְ/תִֽהְיֶ֕ינָה כַּ/עֲרוֹעֵ֖ר בַּ/מִּדְבָּֽר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
ה
h
verb · 95×
י
y
noun · 752×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
מִּדְבָּ֑ר
mdbr
noun · 270×
נָ֖סוּ
nsv
verb · 161×
עַרְעָ֣ר
'r'r
noun · 2×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Gen 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
- Jer 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, in a salt land and not inhabited.
- Jer 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, in a salt land and not inhabited.
- Jer 51:6 — Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
- Job 30:3 — For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.