“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
Parallel translations
- KJV Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
- BSB Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.
- NKJV “Movefrom the midst of Babylon, Go out of the land of the Chaldeans; And be like the rams before the flocks.
- NASB ¶“Wander away from the midst of Babylon And go out from the land of the Chaldeans; Be like male goats at the head of the flock.
- NLT “But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Like male goats at the head of the flock, lead my people home again.
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Quick answer
God calls His people to flee out of Babylon, leading the way like goats before the flock. They are summoned to separate from the doomed city.
Overview
As judgment nears, the LORD urges His people to leave Babylon promptly and decisively. This call to come out of Babylon is echoed in Revelation 18:4, urging God's people to separate from a corrupt, condemned world system. Believers are likewise called to be in the world yet not partakers of its sins.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Jer 51:6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
- Isa 48:20Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
- Rev 18:4I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
- Jer 51:45“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
- Num 16:26He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”
- Isa 52:1Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
- Prov 30:31the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.
- 2 Cor 6:17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
- Zech 2:6–7Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
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