Jeremiah 50:14-16

New International Reader's Version

¹⁴ “All you who shoot arrows,
    take up your battle positions around Babylon.
Shoot at it! Do not spare any arrows!
    Its people have sinned against me.
¹⁵ Shout against them on every side!
    They are giving up.
The towers of the city are falling.
    Its walls are being pulled down.
The Lord is paying back its people.
    So pay them back yourselves.
    Do to them what they have done to others.
¹⁶ Do not leave anyone in Babylon to plant the fields.
    Do not leave anyone to harvest the grain.
Let each of them return to their own people.
    Let them run away to their own land.
    If they don’t, their enemy’s sword will bring them great harm.