Isaiah 48:20

Leave Babylon! Run away from Babylonia with happy shouts! Let everyone know, telling the whole earth, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

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In The 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.

In Context

19Your children, your descendants, would have been like all those grains of sand. They wouldn't have had to be destroyed, wiped out before me.

21They weren't thirsty when he led them through the desert—he made water come out of the rock for them. He split the rock open and water poured out.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4‘You saw for yourselves what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles' wings, how I brought you to myself.

Ezra 2:1This is a list of the Jewish exiles from the province who returned from captivity after King Nebuchadnezzar had taken them away to Babylon. They went back to Jerusalem and to their own towns in Judah.

Isaiah 12:1At that time you will say, “I will praise you, Lord! Though you were angry with me, your anger is over, and now you comfort me.

Isaiah 43:1But now this is what the Lord says to Jacob, the one who created you; to Israel, the one who formed you: “Don't be afraid! I have saved you! I have called you by name; you are mine!

Isaiah 48:6You've heard all I predicted, and seen it happen. Won't you admit it? Now I'm going to tell you new things, secrets you don't know anything about.

Isaiah 52:9Let Jerusalem's ruins all sing for joy for the Lord has come to care for his people; he has set Jerusalem free.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:17-22

Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God , and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of… Read the whole commentary →

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