Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Flee, save your lives. They exhort one another to flee.
Be like the heath - or the juniper (see note, Jeremiah 17:6). Maurer translates, 'be like one naked in the wilderness.' But the sense is, Live in the wilderness like heath, or juniper; do not 'trust in' walls (Jeremiah 48:7). (Grotius) (Compare Matthew 24:16-18.)