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Jeremiah 48:6

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

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נֻ֖סוּnusvawayנוּסverb, qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “away”, a commandH5127to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)[idiom] abate, away, be displayed, (make to) flee (away, -ing), put to flight, [idiom] hide, lift up a standard.מַלְּט֣וּmaltvescapeמָלַטverb, piel, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “escape”, a commandH4422properly, to be smooth, i.e. (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively, to release or rescue; specifically, to bring forth young, emit sparksdeliver (self), escape, lay, leap out, let alone, let go, preserve, save, [idiom] speedily, [idiom] surely.נַפְשְׁכֶ֑םnafshekhemcreatureנֶפֶשׁnoun, common, both genders, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “creature”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally,…וְתִֽהְיֶ֕ינָהvetihyeynahand beהָיָהconjunction, verb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, feminine, plural — “and be”, an unfinished actionH1961to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.כַּעֲרוֹעֵ֖רkaaroeras healthעֲרוֹעֵרpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “as health”, the ordinary formH6176a juniper (from its nudity of situation)health.בַּמִּדְבָּֽרbamidbarin desertמִדְבָּרpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in desert”, the ordinary formH4057a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)desert, south, speech, wilderness.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.

World English Bible

Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

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

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And Ismael went out to meet them; and they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς ἀπάντησιν αὐτοῖς Ἰσμαήλ· αὐτοὶ ἐπορεύοντο, καὶ ἔκλαιον· καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, εἰσέλθετε πρὸς Γοδολίαν.