Isaiah 48:20
Leave Babylon!
What it says
They are commanded to leave Babylon and proclaim with joyful shouting that the LORD has redeemed Jacob.
What it is doing
This verse turns promised deliverance into a public summons to depart.
In context
12Listen to Me, O Jacob, 13Surely My own hand founded the earth, 14Come together, all of you, and listen: 15I, even I, have spoken; 16Come near to Me and listen to this: 17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, 18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, 19Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, 20Leave Babylon! 21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; 22“There is no peace,” says the LORD,