2:7 daughter of Babylon. God’s people are urged to come out of Babylon and all her baleful heritage throughout the centuries (compare Genesis 11:9; Jeremiah 50:6; Revelation 18:4; II Corinthians 6:14-18). Israel has been spread over the world like “the four winds” (Zechariah 2:6), but still needs to abandon the pagan ways learned from Babel—as do all “the nations” (Zechariah 2:8).