but here is a place beside me where you can stand on a rock.

When the dazzling light of my presence passes by, I will put you in an opening in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert where I could get away from my people. They are all unfaithful, a mob of traitors.

The world was not good enough for them! They wandered like refugees in the deserts and hills, living in caves and holes in the ground.

When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. A voice said to him, "Elijah, what are you doing here?"

But the LORD God called out to the man, "Where are you?"

and said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress."

What do you think you will gain by going to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? What do you think you will gain by going to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?

Jonah, however, set out in the opposite direction in order to get away from the LORD. He went to Joppa, where he found a ship about to go to Spain. He paid his fare and went aboard with the crew to sail to Spain, where he would be away from the LORD.

But the LORD sent a strong wind on the sea, and the storm was so violent that the ship was in danger of breaking up.