Jeremiah 51:45-50

Common English Bible

⁴⁵ Get out of Babylon, my people!
    Run for your lives
        from the Lord’s fierce anger.
⁴⁶ Don’t be distracted or frightened
    by the rumors you hear in the land.
        Sometimes you hear one thing
        and another time something else:
    rumors of violence and uprisings.
⁴⁷ The time is coming
    when I will deal with Babylon’s idols;
    the whole land will be disgraced,
        and her wounded will fall in her midst.
⁴⁸ Then all creation will rejoice over Babylon,
    because out of the north
    destroying armies will come to attack her,
        declares the Lord.
⁴⁹ Babylon must fall
    for the dead in Israel,
        as the dead of all the earth
        have fallen to Babylon.

⁵⁰ You survivors of war,
    leave now; don’t delay!
Remember the Lord,
    from a faraway land.
Keep Jerusalem alive in your hearts.