New Revised Standard Version
Flee! Save yourselves! Be like a wild ass in the desert!

Contemporary English Version
Run for your lives! Head into the desert like a wild donkey.

New American Bible
“Flee, save your lives! Be like a wild donkey in the wilderness!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.

Flee, save your lives: and be as heath in the wilderness.

Flee

Jeremiah 51:6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved.

Genesis 19:17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

Psalm 11:1 Unto the end. A psalm to David.

Proverbs 6:4,5 Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. . . .

Matthew 24:16-18 Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: . . .

Luke 3:7 He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 17:31-33 In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. . . .

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

be like

Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.

Job 30:3-7 Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. . . .

the heath.