Isaiah 52:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

New Living Translation
You will not leave in a hurry, running for your lives. For the LORD will go ahead of you; yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind.

English Standard Version
For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Berean Study Bible
For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

New American Standard Bible
But you will not go out in a hurry, Nor will you go as fugitives; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

NASB 1995
But you will not go out in haste, Nor will you go as fugitives; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

NASB 1977
But you will not go out in haste, Nor will you go as fugitives; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Amplified Bible
For you will not go out in a hurry [as when you left Egypt], Nor will you go in flight [fleeing, as you did from the Egyptians]; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Christian Standard Bible
For you will not leave in a hurry, and you will not have to take flight; because the LORD is going before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For you will not leave in a hurry, and you will not have to take flight; because the LORD is going before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Contemporary English Version
You won't need to run. No one is chasing you. The LORD God of Israel will lead and protect you from enemy attacks.

Good News Translation
This time you will not have to leave in a hurry; you will not be trying to escape. The LORD your God will lead you and protect you on every side.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will not go away in a hurry, nor will you go away quickly. The LORD will go ahead of you. The God of Israel will guard you from behind.

International Standard Version
For you won't go out in haste, nor will you go in flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. He is called the God of all the earth."

NET Bible
Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. For the LORD goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

New King James Version
For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by flight; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

King James 2000 Bible
For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

New Heart English Bible
For you shall not depart in haste, nor shall you leave in flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

World English Bible
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

American King James Version
For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

American Standard Version
For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

A Faithful Version
For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Darby Bible Translation
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for Jehovah will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear-guard.

English Revised Version
For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

Webster's Bible Translation
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear-ward.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For ye shall not goe out with haste, nor depart by fleeing away: but the Lorde will goe before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For ye shall not escape by runnyng, nor by fleeyng away: but the Lorde shall go before you, and the God of Israel shall gather you together.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But ye shal not go out with sedicio, ner make haist as they that fle awaye: for the LORDE shal go before you, ad the God of Israel shal kepe the watch.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For you do not go out in haste, "" Indeed, you do not go on with flight, "" For YHWH [is] going before you, "" And the God of Israel [is] gathering you!

Young's Literal Translation
For not in haste do ye go out, Yea, with flight ye go not on, For going before you is Jehovah, And gathering you is the God of Israel!

Smith's Literal Translation
For ye shall not come forth with haste, and in flight ye shall not go; for Jehovah goes before you, and he gathering you the God of Israel.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make haste by flight: For the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For you will not go out in a tumult, nor will you take flight in a hurry. For the Lord will precede you, and the God of Israel will gather you.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, because LORD JEHOVAH goes before you and The God of Israel assembles you

Lamsa Bible
For you shall not go out with haste nor go by flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will gather you together.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For ye shall not go out in haste, Neither shall ye go by flight; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rearward.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For ye shall not go forth with tumult, neither go by flight: for the Lord shall go first in advance of you; and the God of Israel shall be he that brings up your rear.
















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