45 Come out from among her, my people!(A)
Save your lives, each of you,(B)
from the Lord’s burning anger.
46 May you not become cowardly and fearful
when the report is proclaimed in the land,
for the report will come one year,
and then another the next year.
There will be violence in the land
with ruler against ruler.
47 Therefore, look, the days are coming(C)
when I will punish Babylon’s carved images.(D)
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.(E)
48 Heaven and earth and everything in them
will shout for joy(F) over Babylon
because the destroyers from the north(G)
will come against her.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

49 Babylon must fall because of the slain of Israel,
even as the slain of the whole earth fell
because of Babylon.
50 You who have escaped the sword,(H)
go and do not stand still!
Remember the Lord from far away,
and let Jerusalem come to your mind.

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45 “Go out of the midst of her, (A)my people!
    Let every one save his life
    from (B)the fierce anger of the Lord!
46 Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful
    (C)at the report heard in the land,
(D)when a report comes in one year
    and afterward a report in another year,
and violence is in the land,
    (E)and ruler is against ruler.

47 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming
    when (F)I will punish the images of Babylon;
(G)her whole land shall be put to shame,
    and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48 (H)Then the heavens and the earth,
    and all that is in them,
shall sing for joy over Babylon,
    (I)for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north,
declares the Lord.
49 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,
    (J)just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.

50 (K)“You who have escaped from the sword,
    go, do not stand still!
Remember the Lord from far away,
    and let Jerusalem come into your mind:

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