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.
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 guard. (m) As your fathers did out of Egypt.
The removal of the Jews from Babylon to their own land again is here spoken of both as a mercy and as a duty; and the application of Isa 52:7 to the preaching of the gospel (by the apostle, Rom 10:15) plainly intimates that that deliverance was a type and figure of the redemption of mankind by Jesus Christ, to which what is here said...
Commenting on Isaiah 52:7-12
not . . . with haste--as when ye left Egypt (Exo 12:33, Exo 12:39; Deu 16:3; compare Note, see on Isa 28:16). Ye shall have time to cleanse yourselves and make deliberate preparation for departure. Lord--Jehovah, as your Leader in front (Isa 40:3; Exo 23:20; Mic 2:13). rereward--literally, "gather up," that is, to bring up the rear of your host.