Jeremiah 51:45-50

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁴⁵ “Leave it, my people!
Run for your lives!
Run from the burning anger of the Lord.
⁴⁶ Don’t lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land.
One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year.
Rumors of violence are in the land.
Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.
⁴⁷ That is why the days are coming when I will punish Babylon’s idols.
The whole country will be put to shame,
and all its soldiers will lie dead.
⁴⁸ Then heaven and earth and everything in them will rejoice over Babylon,
because destroyers from the north will attack it,”
declares the Lord.

⁴⁹ Because the people of Babylon have killed many Israelites
and because they have killed many people throughout the earth,
Babylon must fall.
⁵⁰ You people who escaped from the sword, leave!
Don’t just stand there.
Remember the Lord in a distant land, and think about Jerusalem.