Jeremiah 51:6-10

Common English Bible

⁶Escape from Babylon;
    each of you run for your lives!
Don’t perish because of her guilt,
    because this is the time
    for the Lord’s retribution,
        a day of reckoning for all that Babylon^[a] has done.

⁷Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord’s hand;
    it made the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine
    and went mad.
⁸But suddenly Babylon fell
    and shattered into pieces.
Wail for her!
    Bring medicine for her pain;
        perhaps she will recover.
⁹We tried to cure Babylon,
    but she was beyond help.
Let’s depart from her
    and return to your own country, each of you.
Her punishment reaches to heaven
    and extends to the clouds.
¹⁰The Lord has come to our defense,
    so let’s declare in Zion
        what the Lord our God has done!