⁴⁵ “Come out, my people, flee from Babylon.
    Save yourselves! Run from the Lord’s fierce anger.
⁴⁶ But do not panic; don’t be afraid
    when you hear the first rumor of approaching forces.
    For rumors will keep coming year by year.
Violence will erupt in the land
    as the leaders fight against each other.
⁴⁷ For the time is surely coming
    when I will punish this great city and all her idols.
Her whole land will be disgraced,
    and her dead will lie in the streets.
⁴⁸ Then the heavens and earth will rejoice,
    for out of the north will come destroying armies
    against Babylon,” says the Lord.
⁴⁹ “Just as Babylon killed the people of Israel
    and others throughout the world,
    so must her people be killed.
⁵⁰ Get out, all you who have escaped the sword!
    Do not stand and watch—flee while you can!
Remember the Lord, though you are in a far-off land,
    and think about your home in Jerusalem.”