Isaiah 52:11

Verse Isaiah 52:11. Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence] The Prophet Jeremiah seems to have had his eye on this passage of Isaiah, and to have applied it to a subject directly opposite. It is here addressed by the prophet in a way of encouragement and exhortation to the Jews coming out of Babylon. Jeremiah has given it a different turn, and has thrown it out, as a reproach of the heathen upon the Jews when they were driven from Jerusalem into captivity: -

"Depart; ye are polluted, depart; depart ye, forbear to touch.

Yea, they are fled, they are removed: they shall dwell here

no more."

Lamentations 4:15.

Of the metrical distribution of these lines, see the Prelim. Dissert., p. lviii. note.