⁶ Flee! Save yourselves!
    Be like a wild ass^[a] in the desert!^(A)

⁶ They shall be like a shrub in the desert
    and shall not see when relief comes.
They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in an uninhabited salt land.^(A)

³ Through want and hard hunger
    they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;
⁴ they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes
    and to warm themselves the roots of broom.
⁵ They are driven out from society;
    people shout after them as after a thief.
⁶ In the gullies of wadis they must live,
    in holes in the ground and in the rocks.
⁷ Among the bushes they bray;
    under the nettles they huddle together.

⁴ Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;^(A)
5 save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,^[a]
    like a bird from the hand of the fowler.^(B)

¹ In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me,
    “Flee like a bird to the mountains,^[a](A)