OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Isaiah 52:12

For you shall not go out in haste,

neither shall you go by flight;

for the LORD will go before you,

and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Isaiah 52:12 in context

Isaiah 52:9–15

Break out into joy!

Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;

for the LORD has comforted his people.

He has redeemed Jerusalem.

The LORD has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing!

Go out from among her!

Cleanse yourselves, you who carry the LORD’s vessels.

Selected verse

For you shall not go out in haste,

neither shall you go by flight;

for the LORD will go before you,

and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Behold, my servant will deal wisely.

He will be exalted and lifted up,

and will be very high.

Just as many were astonished at you—

his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

so he will cleanse many nations.

Kings will shut their mouths at him;

for they will see that which had not been told them,

and they will understand that which they had not heard.

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