Isaiah 48:20-22
Redeemed people proclaim deliverance; the wicked lack peace.
20 Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth: say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21 They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed out.
22 “There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
Redeemed people proclaim deliverance; the wicked lack peace.
To command Israel to depart from Babylon with joyful proclamation while warning that peace does not belong to the wicked.
Addressed to exiled Israel, the passage anticipates their departure from Babylon and return under God’s deliverance.
The LORD Refines Stubborn Israel and Calls His People Out of Babylon
The LORD exposes Israel’s stubbornness, proves his sovereign word, refines his people for his glory, and calls them out of Babylon into redeemed obedience.