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Saturday, September 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Zechariah 2:7

Up! Escape to Zion, you that live with daughter Babylon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Zion;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Jesus Christ;   Sending and Those Sent;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gareb;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Haggai;   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Staff;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Listen, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon.”
Hebrew Names Version
'Come, Tziyon! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Bavel.'
King James Version (1611)
Deliuer thy selfe, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
King James Version
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
English Standard Version
Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
New American Standard Bible
"You, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon."
New Century Version
"Oh no, Jerusalem! Escape, you who live right in Babylon."
Amplified Bible
"Hear, Zion (Jerusalem)! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Saue thy selfe, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon."
Legacy Standard Bible
"Woe, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon."
Berean Standard Bible
"Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!"
Contemporary English Version
Leave Babylonia and hurry back to Zion."
Complete Jewish Bible
Here the angel who was speaking to me went forward, and another angel went out, met him
Darby Translation
Ho! escape, Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
Easy-to-Read Version
You people from Zion now live in Babylon. Escape! Run away from that city!"
George Lamsa Translation
Deliver yourself, O Zion; deliver yourself, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
Lexham English Bible
"Woe, Zion! Escape, you inhabitants of the daughter of Babylon!"
Literal Translation
Ho, O Zion! Escape, you who live with the daughter of Babylon.
American Standard Version
Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
Bible in Basic English
Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And, behold, the angel that spoke with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saue thy selfe O Sion, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
even to Sion: deliver yourselves, ye that dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
English Revised Version
Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
World English Bible
'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.'
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A! thou Sion, fle, that dwellist at the douyter of Babiloyne.
Update Bible Version
Ho Zion, escape, you that dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
Webster's Bible Translation
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of Babylon.
New English Translation
"Escape, Zion, you who live among the Babylonians!"
New King James Version
"Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon."
New Living Translation
Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!"
New Life Bible
"O Zion! Run away, you who are living with the people of Babylon."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ho! Zion, deliver thyself, - thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. For,
Douay-Rheims Bible
O Sion, flee, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon:
Revised Standard Version
Ho! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
Young's Literal Translation
Ho, Zion, be delivered who art dwelling [with] the daughter of Babylon.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Saue thy self, o Sion: thou that dwellest with ye doughter of Babilon,

Contextual Overview

6 Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord ; for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord . 7 Up! Escape to Zion, you that live with daughter Babylon. 8 For thus said the Lord of hosts (after his glory sent me) regarding the nations that plundered you: Truly, one who touches you touches the apple of my eye. 9 See now, I am going to raise my hand against them, and they shall become plunder for their own slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deliver: Genesis 19:17, Numbers 16:26, Numbers 16:34, Isaiah 48:20, Isaiah 52:11, Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 51:45, Acts 2:40, Revelation 18:4

that: Isaiah 52:2, Micah 4:10

daughter: The Babylonians were vanquished by the Persians, formerly their servants, under Darius Hystaspes, who took Babylon after a siege of twelve months, demolished its walls, and put 300,000 of the inhabitants to death.

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 36:23 - Who is there Psalms 137:8 - daughter Isaiah 47:1 - daughter Isaiah 55:12 - ye shall Jeremiah 31:21 - turn Jeremiah 51:50 - escaped Zechariah 2:6 - and flee

Cross-References

Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner.
Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
Genesis 3:23
therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 7:22
everything on dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
Numbers 16:22
They fell on their faces, and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?"
Numbers 27:16
"Let the Lord , the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint someone over the congregation
Job 4:19
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.
Job 27:3
as long as my breath is in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Deliver thyself, O Zion,.... Or make thy escape, you that belong to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, and ought to have your abode there, and not in Babylon: flee from thence,

that dwelleth [with] the daughter of Babylon; in any of the antichristian states, who are the daughters of Babylon, the mother of harlots, Revelation 17:5 so it may be rendered, "that inhabits the daughter of Babylon" k; dwells in any of the cities, towns, and villages, belonging to it.

k יושבת בת בבל, οι κατοικουντες θυγατερα βαβυλωνος, Sept.; "habitatrix filiae Babel", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius; "[vel] inhabitans filiam Babel", De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dwellest with the daughter of Babylon - The unusual idiom is perhaps chosen as expressive of God’s tenderness, even to the people who were to be destroyed, from which Israel was to escape.


 
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