Zechariah 2:7

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…

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.

One would have thought that Cyrus's proclamation, which gave liberty to the captive Jews to return to their own land, would suffice to bring them all back, and that, as when Pharaoh gave them leave to…

Deliver thyself Lit. " Ho, Zion, deliver thyself: thou that dwellest with, &c." The reason for this urgent call to escape, viz. the impending judgment upon Babylon, follows immediately, Zec 2:8-9. In…