Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB “My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
- KJV My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
- NKJV “Mypeople, go out of the midst of her! And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.
- NASB ¶“Come out from her midst, My people, And each of you save yourselves From the fierce anger of the Lord.
- NLT “Come out, my people, flee from Babylon. Save yourselves! Run from the Lord’s fierce anger.
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Quick answer
God calls His people to come out from Babylon and save themselves from His fierce anger. Believers must separate from the doomed city to escape its judgment.
Overview
Echoing verse 6, this renewed summons stresses that those who remain in Babylon share her fate. The call to 'go away from the middle of her' is later applied spiritually in Revelation 18:4. It teaches God's people in every age not to be entangled with a condemned world but to come out and belong wholly to the Lord through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 51:6Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
- Isa 48:20Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
- Rev 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
- 2 Cor 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Num 16:26And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
- Rev 14:8–11Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
- Jer 50:8Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.
- Gen 19:12–16Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
- Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
- Jer 51:50You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
- Zech 2:7“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
- Jer 51:9“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
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