Run away from Babylonia! Run for your lives! Do not be killed because of Babylonia's sin. I am now taking my revenge and punishing it as it deserves.

Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."

I trust in the LORD for safety. How foolish of you to say to me, "Fly away like a bird to the mountains,

Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.

Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.

"Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills.

Someone who is in the field must not go back to get a cloak.

Crowds of people came out to John to be baptized by him. "You snakes!" he said to them. "Who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

"On that day someone who is on the roof of a house must not go down into the house to get any belongings; in the same way anyone who is out in the field must not go back to the house.

Those who try to save their own life will lose it; those who lose their life will save it.

There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.

He is like a bush in the desert, which grows in the dry wasteland, on salty ground where nothing else grows. Nothing good ever happens to him.

They were so poor and hungry that they would gnaw dry roots--- at night, in wild, desolate places.

Everyone drove them away with shouts, as if they were shouting at thieves.

Out in the wilds they howled like animals and huddled together under the bushes.