For Israel hath been no [a]widow, nor Judah from his God, from the Lord of hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the holy one of Israel.

[b]Flee out of the midst of Babel, and deliver every man his soul: be not destroyed in her iniquity: for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance: he will render unto her a recompense.

Babel hath been as a golden cup in the [c]Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken, the nations have drunken of her wine, therefore do the nations [d]rage.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:5 Though they were forsaken for a time, yet they were not utterly cast off as though their husbands were dead.
  2. Jeremiah 51:6 He showeth that there remaineth nothing for them that abide in Babylon, but destruction, Jer. 17:6 and 48:6.
  3. Jeremiah 51:7 By whom the Lord poured out the drink of his vengeance, to whom it pleased him.
  4. Jeremiah 51:7 For the great afflictions that they have felt by the Babylonians.

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