²⁰ Leave Babylon,
    flee^(A) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy^(B)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;^(C)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed^(D) his servant Jacob.”

⁶ “Flee^(A) from Babylon!
    Run for your lives!
    Do not be destroyed because of her sins.^(B)
It is time^(C) for the Lord’s vengeance;^(D)
    he will repay^(E) her what she deserves.

¹¹ Depart,^(A) depart, go out from there!
    Touch no unclean thing!^(B)
Come out from it and be pure,^(C)
    you who carry the articles^(D) of the Lord’s house.

“‘Come out of her, my people,’^[a](A)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;^(B)

¹⁰ Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for now you must leave the city
    to camp in the open field.
You will go to Babylon;^(A)
    there you will be rescued.
There the Lord will redeem^(B) you
    out of the hand of your enemies.

⁴⁵ “Come out^(A) of her, my people!
    Run^(B) for your lives!
    Run from the fierce anger^(C) of the Lord.