Jeremiah 48:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’”
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BSBPD
“‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Jeremiah 48:6 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:17As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
- Job 30:3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
- Proverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
- Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Jeremiah 51:6Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
- Matthew 24:16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
- Luke 3:7Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Luke 17:31On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
- Hebrews 6:18Thus 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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