Jeremiah 48:6

Translations

Modern

‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’

Traditional

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Literal

‘Flee, save your own soul! L become like a juniper in the desert.’

Latin

Fugite, salvate animas vestras, et eritis quasi myricæ in deserto:

Original

Hebrew

English

‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’

Notes

Jeremiah 48:5–6

Luhith was another small village near Horonaim. The sadness from oppression would touch even the smallest places.

Jeremiah 48:1–47

Moab, one of two nations descended from Abraham’s nephew Lot (Genesis 19:36–38), was the next nation judged in the Lord’s courtroom (compare Isaiah 15–16). Moab’s land was between the Arnon River and the Zered Brook, east of the Dead Sea. At that time, the Moabites felt confident because they were mostly safe from Babylonian military power. However, the Lord found the Moabites to be greedy and cruel, and their worship was violent and indulgent.

Jeremiah 48:1–49:6

The Lord ordered the destruction and future rebuilding of Moab and Ammon. These two nations came from Lot, who was Abraham's nephew (Genesis 19:36–38).

Theme notes and profiles

Messages Against the Nations The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

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Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

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