For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken
    by their God, the Lord Almighty,
though their land[a] is full of guilt
    before the Holy One of Israel.

‘Flee from Babylon!
    Run for your lives!
    Do not be destroyed because of her sins.
It is time for the Lord’s vengeance;
    he will repay her what she deserves.
Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord’s hand;
    she made the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine;
    therefore they have now gone mad.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:5 Or Almighty, / and the land of the Babylonians