“Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!” ¹ 

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? ¹ 

A false witness ¹  will not go unpunished, and the one who spouts out ²  lies will not escape punishment. ³ 

The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. ¹  The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

Let the wicked fall ¹  into their ²  own nets, while I escape. ³ 

Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners ¹  so that none of them would escape by swimming away. ² 

Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

He will extend his power ¹  against other lands; the land of Egypt will not escape.

But even the swiftest cannot get away. Even the strongest cannot escape. ¹  There in the north by the Euphrates River they stumble and fall in defeat. ² 

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note ¹  – he gave his promise ²  and did all these things – he will not escape!

But this one from Israel’s royal family ¹  rebelled against the king of Babylon ²  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

“If Esau attacks one camp,” ¹  he thought, ²  “then the other camp will be able to escape.” ³ 

But the eyes of the wicked fail, ¹  and escape ²  eludes them; their one hope ³  is to breathe their last.” ⁴ 

“‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. ¹ 

and they will come to their senses and escape the devil’s trap where they are held captive ¹  to do his will. ² 

When they had brought them outside, they ¹  said, “Run ²  for your lives! Don’t look ³  behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! ⁴  Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

Because they are bent on violence, do not let them escape! ¹  In your anger ²  bring down the nations, ³  O God!

he ¹  said to take back this answer to Esther:

And do you think, ¹  whoever you are, when you judge ²  those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, ³  that you will escape God’s judgment?

David thought to himself, ¹  “One of these days I’m going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand.”