World English Bible
"Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar."
— Genesis 19:22, World English Bible
“Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.”
“Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. ”
“Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”(This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)”
“Make haste, and be saved there: because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.”
“Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.”
“Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.”
See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live."
He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.