Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Jeremiah's oracle in this place concerns Moab. It foretells that Moab would be brought down before the mighty conqueror Nebuchadnezzar. The word translated as lives is the Hebrew neh-phesh. There it is counted among the instances rendered life or lives, where it denotes a person's life.
Jeremiah's oracle in this place concerns Moab. It foretells that Moab would be brought down before the mighty conqueror Nebuchadnezzar. The word translated as lives is the Hebrew neh-phesh. There it is counted among the instances rendered life or lives, where it denotes a person's life.