Isaiah 48:20

Come out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! 1 With the sound of a ringing cry announce it! Make this known, make it go out to the ends of the earth! 1 Say, 'Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob.' 1

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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 descendants would have been as numerous as the sand, and the children from your womb as numerous as the grains of sand; 1 their name would not have been cut off nor blotted out from before me. 1

21They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; 1 he made the water to flow out of the rock for them; 1 he split open the rock, and the waters gushed out. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:4You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.

Ezra 2:1These are the people in the province who went up from the captivity of King Nebuchadnezzar, who had exiled them in Babylon, the people who returned to each of their cities of Jerusalem and in Judea.

Isaiah 12:1On that day you will say, 1 “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh. For though you were angry with me, your wrath has turned away, and you have comforted me. 1

Isaiah 43:1But now this is what Yahweh says, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: 1 “Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine. 1

Isaiah 48:6You heard about these things; look at all this evidence; and you, will you not admit what I said is true? From now on, I am showing you new things, hidden things that you have not known. 1

Isaiah 52:9Break out into joyful singing together, you ruins of Jerusalem; 1 for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. 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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