Jeremiah 51:6-10

International Children’s Bible

⁶ “Run away from Babylon!
    Run to save your lives!
    Don’t stay and be killed because of Babylon’s sins.
It is time for the Lord to punish Babylon.
    Babylon will get the punishment it deserves.
⁷ Babylon was like a gold cup in the Lord’s hand.
    It made the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank Babylon’s wine.
    So they went crazy.
⁸ Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken.
    Cry for her!
Get balm for her pain.
    Maybe she can be healed.

⁹ “Foreigners in Babylon say, ‘We tried to heal Babylon.
    But she cannot be healed.
So let us leave her and each go to his own country.
    Babylon’s guilt is as high as the clouds.
    Babylon’s guilt reaches to the sky.’

¹⁰ “The people of Judah say, ‘The Lord has shown us to be right.
    Come, let us tell about it in Jerusalem.
    Let us tell about what the Lord our God has done.’