Zechariah 2:7
5 For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
6 “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.
“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
8 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
9 I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
- KJV
- Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
- WEB
- ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’
- ASV
- Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
- DARBY
- Ho! escape, Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
- BLB
- “Up, O Zion, Escape, [you who] are dwelling with the daughter of Babylon.”
- ÅB
- Hør! Sion, berg deg unna, du som bor hos Babels datter!
- OTB
- “Kom, Sion! Røm, dere som bor hos Datter Babylon!”
- B1930
- Hør! Sion, berg dig unda, du som bor hos Babels datter!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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!”
Read in contextJeremiah 51:6
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.
Read in contextGenesis 19:17
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Read in contextRevelation 18:4
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.
Read in contextIsaiah 52:11
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Read in contextActs 2:40
With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
Read in contextNumbers 16:34
At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”
Read in contextIsaiah 52:2
Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
Read in context