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Isaiah 52:12

Isaiah 52:12
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight,.... As persons afraid of their enemies, of being pursued, overtaken, and detained by them; privily or by stealth, like fugitives, as the Oriental…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For ye shall not go out with haste - As if driven out, or compelled to flee. You shall not go from Babylon as your fathers went from Egypt, in a rapid flight, and in a confused and tumultuous manner…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 52:7-12

The removal of the Jews from Babylon to their own land again is here spoken of both as a mercy and as a duty; and the application of Isa 52:7 to the preaching of the gospel (by the apostle, Rom 10:15)…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Unlike the former exodus, the departure is to take place deliberately and in perfect security, without haste(Exo 12:11; Deu 16:3), a representation differing somewhat from Isa 48:20.

the Lord will go…