Genesis 19:19
Good News Translation
You have done me a great favor and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there.

New Revised Standard Version
your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die.

New American Bible
“You have already shown favor to your servant, doing me the great kindness of saving my life. But I cannot flee to the hills, or the disaster will overtake and kill me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.

and thou.

Psalm 18:1-50 Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said: [2] I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: . . .

Psalm 40:1-17 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me. . . .

Psalm 103:1-22 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name. . . .

Psalm 106:1-107:43 Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. . . .

Psalm 116:1-19 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. . . .

1 Timothy 1:14-16 Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. . . .

lest some.

Genesis 12:13 Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.

Deuteronomy 31:17 And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me.

1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart: I shall one day or other fall into the hands of Saul: is it not better for me to flee, and to be saved in the land of the Philistines, that Saul may despair of me, and cease to seek me in all the coasts of Israel? I will flee then out of his hands.

1 Kings 9:9 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

Psalm 77:7-11 Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more favourable again? . . .

Psalm 116:11 I said in my excess: Every man is a liar.

Matthew 8:25,26 And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish. . . .

Mark 9:19 Who answering them, said: O incredulous generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me.

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

Context
Lot Flees to Zoar
18And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord, 19Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.20There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?…
Cross References
Luke 1:58
And her neighbors and kinsfolks heard that the Lord had shewed his great mercy towards her: and they congratulated with her.

Genesis 6:8
But Noe found grace before the Lord.

Genesis 19:18
And Lot said to them: I beseech thee, my Lord,

Genesis 19:20
There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

Genesis 19:30
And Lot went up out of Segor, and abode in the mountain, and his two daughters with him (for he was afraid to stay in Segor) and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.

Genesis 39:4
And Joseph found favour in the sight of his master, and ministered to him: and being set over all by him, he governed the house committed to him, and all things that were delivered to him:

Genesis 19:18
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