When they brought them outside, one said, “Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the surrounding area! Escape to the hills, or else you’ll be swept away!”
Zechariah 2:7 - Tree of Life Version Then behold, the angel speaking with me left and another angel went out to meet him, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Ho! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon! American Standard Version (1901) Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. Common English Bible Look out, Zion. Flee, you who dwell with Daughter Babylon! Catholic Public Domain Version O Zion, flee, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon: |
When they brought them outside, one said, “Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the surrounding area! Escape to the hills, or else you’ll be swept away!”
Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no more be called tender and delicate.
“Get out of Babylon, flee from Chaldea! With a shout of joy, proclaim this, send it out to the end of the earth, say: ‘Adonai has redeemed His servant Jacob!
Leave, leave! Get out of there! Touch no unclean thing. Go out of her midst. Purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of Adonai.
Shake off the dust and arise! Be enthroned, Jerusalem. Loose the bonds off your neck, captive Daughter of Zion.
“Flee from within Babylon, get out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be like he-goats before the flock.
Come out of her, My people! Each of you, save your soul from the fierce anger of Adonai.
Flee from within Babylon! Each one, escape with his soul! Be not silenced in her iniquity! For it is a time of vengeance for Adonai. He will repay her recompense.
Writhe and give birth, Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will go forth from a city. You will dwell in the field, and you will come as far as Babylon. There you will be rescued. There will Adonai redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
He warned the assembly saying, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men! Don’t touch anything that is theirs, or you will be swept away because of all their sins!”
All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they shouted, “Perhaps the earth will swallow us!”
With many other words he warned them and kept urging them, saying, “Save yourselves from this twisted generation!”
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you participate in her sins and receive her plagues!