Zachariæ 2:6

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Quia hæc dicit Dominus exercituum : Adhuc unum modicum est, et ego commovebo cælum, et terram, et mare, et aridam.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
[O, o, fugite de terra aquilonis, dicit Dominus,
quoniam in quatuor ventos c�li dispersi vos, dicit Dominus.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[2:10] Heu, heu! Fugite de terra aquilonis, dicit Dominus, quoniam in quattuor ventos caeli dispersi vos, dicit Dominus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ho: Ruth 4:1, Isaiah 55:1

and flee: Zechariah 2:7, Genesis 19:17, Isaiah 48:20, Isaiah 52:11, Isaiah 52:12, Jeremiah 1:14, Jeremiah 3:18, Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 51:45, Jeremiah 51:50, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Revelation 18:4

spread: Deuteronomy 28:64, Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 31:10, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 11:16, Ezekiel 12:14, Ezekiel 12:15, Ezekiel 17:21, Amos 9:9

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:43 - did spread 2 Chronicles 36:23 - Who is there Psalms 102:16 - he shall Isaiah 52:2 - Shake Jeremiah 31:21 - turn Ezekiel 5:10 - the whole Hosea 1:7 - will save Zechariah 7:14 - scattered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ho, ho,.... This word expresses a call and proclamation; and is doubled, as Kimchi observes, to confirm it; and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"proclaim to the dispersed:''

[come forth], and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord; that is, from Babylon, which lay north of Judea; see Jeremiah 1:13 Jeremiah 3:12 where many of the Jews continued, and did not return with the rest when they came up out of the captivity; and are therefore called to come forth from thence in haste; and figuratively designs, either the people of God that are among the men of the world, and are called to separate from them, and have no fellowship with there; or such as will be in mystical Babylon, a little before its destruction; and will be called out of it, lest they partake of her plagues; see Revelation 18:4:

for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord; meaning either the dispersion of the Jews in Babylon, and other countries; or of the people of God, being scattered up and down in the jurisdiction of Rome Papal; or the sense is, that it was his will and purpose, when they were come out of Babylon, that they should be spread in the several parts of the world, to support the cause of Christ, and strengthen his interest.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ho! ho! and flee - Such being the safety and glory in store for God’s people in Jerusalem, He who had so provided it, the Angel of the Lord, bids His people everywhere to come to it, saving themselves also from the peril which was to come on Babylon. So Isaiah bade them, “Go ye forth of Babylon; flee ye from the Chaldaeans with a voice of singing; declare ye, tell this, utter it to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed His servant Jacob” Isaiah 48:20. “Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence; touch no unclean thing: go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord” Isaiah 52:11; and Jeremiah, “Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul; be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance. He will render unto her a recompense” (Jeremiah 51:6, add. Jeremiah 50:8). “My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye, every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord” Jeremiah 51:45.

The words, “flee, deliver thyself,” imply an imminent peril on Babylon, such as came upon her, two years after this prophecy, in the fourth year of Darius. But the earnestness of the command, its repetition by three prophets, the context in isaiah and Jeremiah, imply something more than temporal peril, the peril of the infection of the manners of Babylon, which may have detained there many who did not return. Whence in the New Testament, the words are cited, as to the great evil city of the world; “Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you” 2 Corinthians 6:17; and under the name of Babylon; “I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” Revelation 18:4.

For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of heaven - The north country, although its capital and center was Babylon, was the whole Babylonian empire, called “the North” Jeremiah 1:13-14; Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 4:6; Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 6:22; Jeremiah 23:8 because its invasions always came upon Israel from the north. But the book of Esther shows that, sixty years after this, the Jews were dispersed over the 127 provinces of the Persian empire, from India (the Punjab) to Ethiopia Esther 1:1; Esther 3:8, Esther 3:12-14; Esther 8:5, Esther 8:9, whether they were purposely placed by the policy of the conquerors in detatched groups, as the ten tribes were in the “cities of the Medes” 2 Kings 17:6, or whether, when more trusted, they migrated of their own accord. God, in calling them to return, reminds them of the greatness of their dispersion. He had dispersed them abroad as the four winds of heaven . He, the Same, recalled them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 2:6. Flee from the land of the north — From Chaldee, Persia, and Babylon, where several of the Jews still remained. See Zechariah 2:7.