King James Version
Jeremiah 48:6 in the King James Version says “Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. the heath: or, a naked tree” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 48 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. the heath: or, a naked tree”
Jeremiah 48:6 · KJV
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. continual: Heb. weeping with weeping
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. the heath: or, a naked tree
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
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“Flee”
H5127to flit, i.e., vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
“save”
H4422properly, to be smooth, i.e., (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth youn
“your lives”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“and be”
H1961to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“in the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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