“You, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.”
Parallel translations
- WEB ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
- KJV Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
- BSB “Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
- NKJV “Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”
- NLT Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”
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Quick answer
God calls Zion's people who still dwell in Babylon to escape. Do not linger where you do not belong.
Overview
Those identified as 'Zion' are urged to separate from 'the daughter of Babylon,' the empire of exile and idolatry. The urgency reflects both opportunity and danger in remaining. This call to come out of Babylon echoes through Scripture as a summons to God's people to separate from a doomed world system and belong wholly to Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 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!”
- Gen 19:17It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
- 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,
- Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
- Isa 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
- 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 52:2Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
- Jer 51:45“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
- Jer 50:8“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
- Mic 4:10Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
- Num 16:34All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
- 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!”
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