Jeremiah Chapter 48 verse 6 Holy Bible
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
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Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.
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Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the wilderness.
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Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
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Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
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Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Flee, save your lives; literally, your souls. The prophet's human feeling prompts him to this counsel; but he knows full well that a life of abject misery is the utmost that can be hoped for. And be like the heath in the wilderness; literally, and (your souls) shall be like destitute ones in the wilderness. Imagine the case of one who has been robbed of everything, and left alone in the desert; not less miserable is that of the Moabite fugitives. The word rendered "the heath" (aro'er) is either miswritten for ar'ar, which occurs in the sense of "destitute" in Jeremiah 17:6 (see note), or also a rare plural form of the same word. The sense remains the same. It is tempting to see an allusion to one of the towns called Aroer (as in Isaiah 17:2). But the only Aroer the prophet could be thinking of is that on the Amen (Deuteronomy 2:36), which could not be described as "in the wilderness."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Be like the heath in the wilderness.--Here, as in Jeremiah 17:6, the stunted solitary shrub in the desert is taken as the type of desolation. The LXX., which adopts the meaning in Jeremiah 17:6, here strangely enough gives "as a wild ass in the wilderness." Psalm 11:1 gives us an example of a like comparison. Here probably there is, as before, a paronomasia on the name of the Moabite city Aroer, which closely resembles the Hebrew word for "heath." In thus finding an ominous significance in the names of cities, Jeremiah follows in the wake of Micah 1.
