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11 Depart, depart, go out from there,
    touch nothing unclean!
Out from there![a] Purify yourselves,
    you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

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  1. 52:11 From there: from Babylon. Vessels of the Lord: taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, now carried back by the exiles returning in procession to Zion; cf. Ezr 1:7.

34 With mighty hand and outstretched arm, with wrath poured out, I will bring you out from the nations and gather you from the countries over which you are scattered;(A)

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41 As a sweet-smelling oblation I will accept you, when I bring you from among the nations and gather you out of the lands over which you were scattered; and through you I will manifest my holiness in the sight of the nations.(A)

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Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“Depart from her,[a] my people,
    so as not to take part in her sins
    and receive a share in her plagues,(A)

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  1. 18:4 Depart from her: not evacuation of the city but separation from sinners, as always in apocalyptic literature.

27 but nothing unclean will enter it, nor any[one] who does abominable things or tells lies. Only those will enter whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)

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