Isaiah 52:11

52:11 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! ¹ 

Isaiah 49:9

49:9 You will say ²  to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’

and to those who are in dark dungeons, ³  ‘Emerge.’ ⁴ 

They will graze beside the roads;

on all the slopes they will find pasture.

Isaiah 48:20

48:20 Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Babylonians!

Announce it with a shout of joy!

Make this known!

Proclaim it throughout the earth! ⁵ 

Say, ‘The Lord protects ⁶  his servant Jacob.

[52:11]  ¹ tn Heb “the vessels of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB).

[49:9]  ² tn Heb “to say.” In the Hebrew text the infinitive construct is subordinated to what precedes.

[49:9]  ³ tn Heb “in darkness” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “the prisoners of darkness.”

[49:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “show yourselves” (so ASV, NAB, NASB).

[48:20]  ³ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

[48:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.