| Geneva Study Bible Flee, save your lives, and be like the {e} bush in the wilderness. (e) Hide yourselves in barren places, where the enemy will not pursue after you, Jer 17:6. Wesley's Notes 48:6 And be - Save your lives, though all ye have be lost. King James Translators' Notes the heath: or, a naked tree Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 6. They exhort one another to flee. heath-or the juniper (see on [977]Jer 17:6). Maurer translates, "Be like one naked in the wilderness." But the sense is, Live in the wilderness like the heath, or juniper; do not "trust in" walls (Jer 48:7) [Grotius]. (Compare Mt 24:16-18). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 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, Ps 55:19. | 
