But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:17 NRSV
When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.”
Isaiah 43:18–19 NRSV
Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
