Zechariah 2:7 "Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!"

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Come, Zion! Escape, you who live in Daughter Babylon!"

English Standard Version
Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

New American Standard Bible
"Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon."

King James Bible
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Go, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon."

International Standard Version
"'Come now, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the residents of Babylon.

American Standard Version
Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:

Darby Bible Translation
Ho! escape, Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

Young's Literal Translation
Ho, Zion, be delivered who art dwelling with the daughter of Babylon.

Cross References

Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.

Isaiah 48:20
Go you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say you, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.

Isaiah 52:2
Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bands of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 52:11
Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the middle of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:6
Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:6-9 If God will build Jerusalem for the people and their comfort, they must inhabit it for him and his glory. The promises and privileges with which God's people are blessed, should engage us to join them, whatever it costs us. When Zion is enlarged to make room for all God's Israel, it is the greatest madness for any of them to stay in Babylon. The captivity of a sinful state is by no means to be continued in, though a man may be easy in worldly matters. Escape for thy life, look not behind thee. Christ has proclaimed that deliverance to the captives, which he has himself wrought out, and it concerns every one to resolve that sin shall not have dominion over him. Those who would be found among God's children, must save themselves from this world, see Ac 2:40. What Christ will do for his church, shall be an evident proof of God's care and affection. He that touches you, touches the apple of his eye. This is a strong expression of God's love to his church. He takes what is done against her as done against the tenderest part of the eye, to which the least touch is a great offence. Christ is sent to be the Protector of his church.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. O Zion … daughter of Babylon—Thou whose only sure dwelling is "Zion," inseparably connected with the temple, art altogether out of thy place in "dwelling with the daughter of Babylon" (that is, Babylon and her people, Ps 137:8; Isa 1:8).

After the glory—After restoring the "glory" (Zec 2:5; Isa 4:5; Ro 9:4) of Jehovah's presence to Jerusalem, He (God the Father) hath commissioned ME (God the Son, Isa 48:16, the Divine Angel: God thus being at once the Sender and the Sent) to visit in wrath "the nations which spoiled you." Messiah's twofold office from the Father is: (1) to glorify His Church; (2) to punish its foes (2Th 1:7-10). Both offices manifest His glory (Pr 16:4).

toucheth … the apple of his eye—namely, of Jehovah's eye (De 32:10; Ps 17:8; Pr 7:2). The pupil, or aperture, through which rays pass to the retina, is the tenderest part of the eye; the member which we most sedulously guard from hurt as being the dearest of our members; the one which feels most acutely the slightest injury, and the loss of which is irreparable.