⁶ Flee!^(A) Run for your lives;
    become like a bush^[a] in the desert.^(B)

⁶ That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places^(A) of the desert,
    in a salt^(B) land where no one lives.

⁶ “Flee^(A) from Babylon!
    Run for your lives!
    Do not be destroyed because of her sins.^(B)
It is time^(C) for the Lord’s vengeance;^(D)
    he will repay^(E) her what she deserves.

³ Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed^[a] the parched land^(A)
    in desolate wastelands^(B) at night.^(C)
4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs,^(D)
    and their food^[b] was the root of the broom bush.^(E)
5 They were banished from human society,
    shouted at as if they were thieves.
⁶ They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
    among the rocks and in holes in the ground.^(F)
7 They brayed^(G) among the bushes^(H)
    and huddled in the undergrowth.