⁶ “Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered^(A) you to the four winds of heaven,”^(B) declares the Lord.^(C)

²¹ All his choice troops will fall by the sword,^(A) and the survivors^(B) will be scattered to the winds.^(C) Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken.^(D)

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

¹⁶ “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary^(A) for them in the countries where they have gone.’

⁶⁴ Then the Lord will scatter^(A) you among all nations,^(B) from one end of the earth to the other.^(C) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.^(D)

¹⁷ As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives!^(A) Don’t look back,^(B) and don’t stop anywhere in the plain!^(C) Flee to the mountains^(D) or you will be swept away!”

¹⁶ What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?^(A) For we are the temple^(B) of the living God.^(C) As God has said:

¹⁷ Therefore,