Flee! Save yourselves!
    You will be like (A)a juniper in the desert!

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(A)He is like a shrub in the desert,
    (B)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in (C)an uninhabited salt land.

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(A)“Flee from the midst of Babylon;
    let every one save his life!
(B)Be not cut off in her punishment,
    (C)for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance,
    the repayment he is rendering her.

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18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which (A)it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope (B)set before us.

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31 On that day, (A)let the one who is on (B)the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. 32 (C)Remember Lot's wife. 33 (D)Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will (E)keep it.

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He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, (A)“You brood of (B)vipers! Who warned you to flee from (C)the wrath to come?

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16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 (A)Let the one who is on (B)the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 18 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

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(A)Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[a]
    (B)like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter

The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

11 In the Lord I take refuge;
how can you say to my soul,
    (A)“Flee like a bird to your mountain,

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Through want and hard hunger
    they (A)gnaw (B)the dry ground by night in (C)waste and desolation;
they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
    and the roots of the broom tree for their food.[a]
(D)They are driven out from human company;
    they shout after them as after a thief.
In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
    in holes of the earth and of (E)the rocks.
Among the bushes they (F)bray;
    under (G)the nettles they huddle together.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:4 Or warmth

17 And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. (A)Do not look back or stop anywhere in the (B)valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”

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