48:20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Babylonians!
Announce it with a shout of joy!
Make this known!
Proclaim it throughout the earth! 1
Say, ‘The Lord protects 2 his servant Jacob.
62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: 3
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘Look, your deliverer comes!
Look, his reward is with him
and his reward goes before him!’” 4
1 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.
3 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).
4 sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.