² tn Heb “escape.”

¹ tn Heb “our life escaped.”

² tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

⁵ tn Heb “For who ever escaped…?”

⁵ tn Or “those who are barely escaping.”

² tn Heb “will not escape from their hand.”

⁷ tn Heb “a survivor belonging to them will not escape.”

² tn Heb “a place of escape” (with this noun pattern). There is no place to escape to because they all perish.

² sn Zedekiah held out this hope of escape until the end. He tried to escape but was unsuccessful (cf. 39:4-5).

³ tn Heb “the surviving camp will be for escape.” The word “escape” is a feminine noun. The term most often refers to refugees from war.

¹ tn The same verb, λανθάνω (lanthanō, “escape”) used in v. 5 is found here (there, translated “suppress”).

¹ tn Heb “Flight [or “place of escape”] will perish from the shepherds.”

¹ tn Heb “and struck down the remnant that had escaped belonging to Amalek.”

⁴ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”

² tn Heb “is concealed from the eyes of”; NASB, NRSV, NLT “escapes the notice of.”

³ tn Heb “Let me escape to there.” The cohortative here expresses Lot’s request.

¹ tn The Greek is difficult at this point. An alternative is “Even though they maintain this, it escapes them that…” Literally the idea seems to be: “For this escapes these [men] who wish [it to be so].”

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the woman’s escape.

³ sn This judgment involves everyone: all who live on the face of the whole earth. No one will escape this evaluation.

² tn Heb “to place his nest in the heights in order to escape from the hand of disaster.”