Jeremiah 50:1-10

Holman Christian Standard Bible

² Announce to the nations;
proclaim and raise up a signal flag;^(B)
proclaim, and hide nothing.
Say: Babylon is captured;
Bel^(C) is put to shame;
Marduk is devastated;
her idols are put to shame;
her false gods, devastated.
³ For a nation from the north will come against her;^(D)
it will make her land desolate.
No one will be living in it—
both man and beast will escape.^[a]
4 In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
the Israelites and Judeans will come together,
weeping as they come,
and will seek the Lord their God.^(E)
5 They will ask about Zion,
turning their faces to this road.
They will come and join themselves^[b] to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant^(F) that will never be forgotten.

⁶ My people are lost sheep;^(G)
their shepherds have led them astray,
guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.^(H)
They have wandered from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place.
⁷ All who found them devoured them.
Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;
instead, they have sinned against the Lord,
their righteous grazing land,^(I)
the hope of their ancestors,^(J) the Lord.”

⁸ Escape from Babylon;^(K)
depart from the Chaldeans’ land.
Be like the rams that lead the flock.
⁹ For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the north country.
They will line up in battle formation against her;
from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like those of a skilled^[c] warrior
who does not return empty-handed.
¹⁰ The Chaldeans will become plunder;
all Babylon’s plunderers will be fully satisfied.
This is the Lord’s declaration.