Bible Strands
Jeremiah 51:45
Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks through Jeremiah to His people, commanding immediate escape from Babylon just before its prophesied fall. This directive interrupts the surrounding oracles of judgment to prioritize survival over curiosity or delay.
The words — The imperative צְא֤וּ (tze.'U) means "come out" or "go forth," paired with וּ/מַלְּט֖וּ (u./ma.le.Tu) meaning "and save." These verbs command physical departure from the city's midst to preserve each person's life.
The thread — The text repeats the flight command from Jeremiah 51:6 and parallels the leave-Babylon warning in Isaiah 48:20. It also resurfaces in Revelation 18:4 as a heavenly voice urging separation from a corrupt system.
Why it lands — The passage requires immediate physical withdrawal from a location under active divine judgment. It demands practical obedience to preserve life rather than passive endurance of coming destruction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 48:20 Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
- Jeremiah 51:6 Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
- Revelation 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
- Genesis 19:12 Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
- Numbers 16:26 And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
- Jeremiah 50:8 Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.
- Acts 2:40 With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Revelation 14:8 Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”
- Jeremiah 51:9 “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”