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The Exiles Are Called Home

The Lord says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds. Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”

After a period of glory, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies sent me[a] against the nations who plundered you. For he said, “Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8a The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  2. 2:8b Hebrew Anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

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