⁶ Go in flight, get away with your lives, and let your faces be turned to Aroer in the Arabah.

⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

⁶ Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

³¹ On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.

³² Keep in mind Lot's wife.

³³ If anyone makes an attempt to keep his life, it will be taken from him, but if anyone gives up his life, he will keep it.

⁷ So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

¹⁶ Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains:

¹⁷ Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house:

¹⁸ And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.

⁴ Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

⁵ Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

¹ <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

³ They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

⁴ They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.

⁵ They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

⁶ They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

⁷ They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.