Jeremiah 50:4-10

Living Bible

⁴ Then the people of Israel and Judah shall join together, weeping and seeking the Lord their God. ⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion and start back home again. “Come,” they will say, “let us be united to the Lord with an eternal pledge that will never be broken again.”

⁶ My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds led them astray and then turned them loose in the mountains. They lost their way and didn’t remember how to get back to the fold. ⁷ All who found them devoured them and said, “We are permitted to attack them freely, for they have sinned against the Lord, the God of justice, the hope of their fathers.”

⁸ But now, flee from Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; lead my people home again. ⁹ For see, I am raising up an army of great nations from the north, and I will bring them against Babylon to attack her, and she shall be destroyed. The enemies’ arrows go straight to the mark; they do not miss! ¹⁰ And Babylon shall be sacked until everyone is sated with loot,” says the Lord.