Isaiah 48:20

Go ye forth of Babylon, 1 flee ye from the Kasdim (Chaldeans), 1 with a voice of joyful singing 1 declare ye, preach this, 1 send it forth even to the ketzeh ha'aretz; 1 say ye: Hashem hath redeemed His Eved Ya'akov. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

19Thy zera also had been like the chol (sand), 1 and those that come out of thy loins like me'otav (sands of the sea thereof); 1 his shem should not have been cut off 1 nor destroyed from before Me. 1

21And they thirsted not 1 when He led them through the deserts; 1 He caused the mayim to flow out of the Tzur for them; 1 He split the Tzur, 1 and the mayim gushed out. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4You yourselves have seen what I did unto the Mitzrayim, and how I carried you on eaglesʼ wings, and brought you unto Myself.

Ezra 2:1Now these are the people of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those of the Golus, whom Nevukhadnetzar Melech Bavel had carried away unto Babylon, and returned unto Yerushalayim and Yehudah, every one unto his town;

Isaiah 12:1And in Yom Hahu thou shalt say, 1 Hashem, I will praise Thee; 1 though Thou wast angry with me, 1 Thine anger is turned away, 1 and Thou comfortedst me. 1

Isaiah 43:1But now thus saith Hashem that created thee, O Ya'akov, 1 And He that formed thee, O Yisroel: 1 Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, 1 I have called thee by thy shem; thou art Mine. 1

Isaiah 48:6Thou hast heard, 1 look at all this; and will not ye preach it? 1 I have caused thee to hear chadashot (new things) from this time, 1 even netzurot (hidden things) and thou didst not know them. 1

Isaiah 52:9Break forth into joy, sing together, 1 ye ruins of Yerushalayim; 1 for Hashem hath comforted His people, 1 He hath redeemed Yerushalayim. 1

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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