Jeremiah 48:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
  • Jer 51:6 : 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
  • Matt 24:16-18 : 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house. 18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
  • Luke 3:7 : 7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Luke 17:31-33 : 31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. 32 Remember Lot's wife! 33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Gen 19:17 : 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"
  • Job 30:3-7 : 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. 4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food. 5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief; 6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
  • Prov 6:4-5 : 4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

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  • Jer 48:7-9
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    7For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

    8The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.

    9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

  • Jer 48:44-46
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    44He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.

    45Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

    46Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.

  • Jer 49:30
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    30Flee, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Hazor, says Yahweh; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you.

  • Jer 50:8
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    8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

  • Jer 48:28
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    28You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.

  • Ezek 7:16
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    16But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Isa 13:14
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    14It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

  • Jer 4:29
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    29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

  • Jer 48:19
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    19Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?

  • Jer 48:5
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    5For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

  • Jer 6:25
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    25Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

  • Isa 15:5
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    5My heart cries out for Moab! Her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of destruction.

  • Isa 30:16-17
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    71%

    16but you said, "No, for we will flee on horses;" therefore you will flee; and, "We will ride on the swift;" therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

    17One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

  • Jer 51:6
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    6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

  • Josh 8:6
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    6They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

  • Lev 26:36
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    36"'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.

  • Isa 16:2
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    2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

  • Matt 24:16
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    16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

  • Isa 10:31
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    31Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

  • Jer 9:10
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    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

  • Jer 51:45
    70%

    45My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.

  • Amos 2:16
    70%

    16and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says Yahweh.

  • Jer 51:50
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    50You who have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

  • Deut 1:40
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    40But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

  • Amos 5:6
    69%

    6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

  • Jer 48:34
    69%

    34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

  • Jer 38:2
    69%

    2Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey, and he shall live.

  • Josh 8:15
    69%

    15Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

  • Zech 2:6-7
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    6Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,' says Yahweh; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,' says Yahweh.

    7'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.'

  • Jer 48:3
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    3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

  • Jer 21:9
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    9He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.

  • Jer 6:1
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    1"Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

  • Jer 6:8
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    8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited."

  • Jer 49:3
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    3Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

  • Deut 28:25
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    25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Isa 21:15
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    15For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

  • Isa 7:19
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    19They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

  • Hos 9:6
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    6For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

  • Jer 10:17
    68%

    17Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

  • Isa 22:17
    68%

    17Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.