Verse 2

Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 51:45 : 45 “Get out of Babylon, my people! Flee to save your lives from the fierce anger of the LORD!
  • Jer 51:50 : 50 You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the LORD in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.
  • Zech 2:6 : 6 “You there! Flee from the northland!” says the LORD,“for like the four winds of heaven I have scattered you,” says the LORD.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Isa 3:26 : 26 Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.
  • Isa 29:4 : 4 You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation.
  • Isa 51:14 : 14 The one who suffers will soon be released; he will not die in prison, he will not go hungry.
  • Isa 61:1 : 1 The Lord Will Rejuvenate His People The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,
  • Jer 51:6 : 6 Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. Flee to save your lives. Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins. For it is time for the LORD to wreak his revenge. He will pay Babylonia back for what she has done.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you,‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”
  • Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will think to yourself,‘Who bore these children for me? I was bereaved and barren, dismissed and divorced. Who raised these children? Look, I was left all alone; where did these children come from?’”
  • Rev 18:4 : 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,“Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,