6 Flee! Run for your lives; become like a bush
6 Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert!
6 Oh, run for your lives! Get out while you can! Survive by your wits in the wild!
6 "Flee, save your lives! And be like the juniper in the wilderness.
6 Flee for your lives! Hide in the wilderness!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 48:6
Commentary on Jeremiah 48:1-13
(Read Jeremiah 48:1-13)
The Chaldeans are to destroy the Moabites. We should be thankful that we are required to seek the salvation of men's lives, and the salvation of their souls, not to shed their blood; but we shall be the more without excuse if we do this pleasant work deceitfully. The cities shall be laid in ruins, and the country shall be wasted. There will be great sorrow. There will be great hurry. If any could give wings to sinners, still they could not fly out of the reach of Divine indignation. There are many who persist in unrepented iniquity, yet long enjoy outward prosperity. They had been long corrupt and unreformed, secure and sensual in prosperity. They have no changes of their peace and prosperity, therefore their hearts and lives are unchanged, Psalm 55:19.