Isaiah 48:20 “Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy…”

Isaiah 48:20

Leave 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!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

World English Bible

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

American Standard Version

Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Geneva Bible 1599

Goe yee out of Babel: flee yee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of ioy: tel and declare this: shewe it foorth to the ende of the earth: say yee, The Lord hath redeemed his seruant Iaakob.

Darby Translation

Go ye forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing; declare, cause this to be heard, utter it to the end of the earth; say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

Young's Literal Translation

Go out from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, With a voice of singing declare, Cause ye this to be heard, Bring it forth unto the end of the earth, Say, Redeemed hath Jehovah His servant Jacob.

Bible in Basic English

Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.

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Cross references

“ye forth”

Jeremiah 50:8 Jeremiah 51:45 Jeremiah 51:6 Revelation 18:4 Isaiah 52:11 Zechariah 2:6

Jeremiah 50:8 · BSB

Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.

Jeremiah 51:45 · BSB

Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:6 · BSB

Flee 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.

Revelation 18:4 · BSB

Then 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.

Isaiah 52:11 · BSB

Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

Zechariah 2:6 · BSB

“Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.

“with a voice”

Isaiah 52:9 Isaiah 26:1 Isaiah 49:13 Exodus 15:1–21 Exodus 19:4–6 Revelation 19:1–6

Isaiah 52:9 · BSB

Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 26:1 · BSB

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.

Isaiah 49:13 · BSB

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

Exodus 15:1–21 · BSB

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.

Exodus 19:4–6 · BSB

‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

Revelation 19:1–6 · BSB

After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!

“utter it even”

Isaiah 48:6 Jeremiah 31:10 Jeremiah 50:2 2 Samuel 7:23

Isaiah 48:6 · BSB

You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.

Jeremiah 31:10 · BSB

Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.

Jeremiah 50:2 · BSB

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pi…

2 Samuel 7:23 · BSB

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods…

Also

Isaiah 63:9

Isaiah 63:9 · BSB

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”

21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow for them from the rock; He split the rock, and water gushed out.

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