Jeremiah 50:4-10

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁴ In those days, and in that time, declares the Lord,
the people of Israel will come,
they and the people of Judah together with them.
They will come weeping,
and they will seek the Lord their God.
⁵ They will ask the way to Zion and turn toward it,
saying, “Come, join yourselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.”
⁶ My people have been lost sheep.
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They have turned them aside on the mountains.
They have gone from mountain to hill.
They have forgotten their resting place.
⁷ All who found them have devoured them.
Their enemies said, “We are not guilty,
because they sinned against the Lord,
who is their rightful pasture,
the Lord, the hope of their fathers.”

⁸ Flee from Babylon!
Leave the land of the Chaldeans.
Be like the male goats that lead the flock.
⁹ Watch, I will stir up and bring against Babylon
    an assembly of great nations from the land of the north.
They will array themselves against her,
and she will be taken away captive from there.
Their arrows will be like those of a skilled warrior
    who does not return empty-handed.
¹⁰ Chaldea will be plundered.
All who prey on her will have their fill, declares the Lord.