Isaiah 52:11-12
New English Translation
11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there!
Don’t touch anything unclean!
Get out of it!
Stay pure, you who carry the Lord’s holy items.[a]
12 Yet do not depart quickly
or leave in a panic.[b]
For the Lord goes before you;
the God of Israel is your rear guard.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 52:11 tn Heb “the vessels of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB).
- Isaiah 52:12 tn Heb “or go in flight”; NAB “leave in headlong flight.”
Isaiah 52:11-12
Expanded Bible
11 You people, leave, leave; get out ·of Babylon [L from there]!
Touch nothing that is ·unclean [defiled].
You who carry the ·Lord’s things used in worship [articles/vessels of the Lord],
leave there and make yourselves pure.
12 You will not ·be forced to leave Babylon quickly [leave in haste];
you will not be forced to run away,
because the Lord will go before you,
and the God of Israel will ·guard you from behind [be your rear guard].
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