Isaiah 48:21

"Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With the sound of joyful shouting announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”"

Key Reflection

This verse calls for Israel to leave Babylon and its oppressive rulers with joyous proclamation, emphasizing that God has redeemed His people. It symbolizes both physical liberation and spiritual salvation, urging a collective witness of divine deliverance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And they thirsted not -This is a part of that for which they would be called to celebrate his name. It was not merely that he had redeemed them, but that he had abundantly provided for their needs in the desert, and guided them safe through the pathless wilderness to their own land (see the notes atIsaiah 35:6-7;Isaiah 41:17-18). He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them -The allusion here is undoubtedly to the fact that God caused the waters to flow out of the rock that Moses smote in the wildernessExodus 17:6;Numbers 20:11.

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