Jeremiah 51:45-50

The Voice

⁴⁵     Get out of Babylon, My people, before it is too late!
        Run! Save yourselves!
    Run! Do not get caught up in the destruction
        caused by My fierce anger.
⁴⁶     Do not lose heart or give in to fear and panic
        when the rumors start to fly in the land.
    Year after year, the rumors will come—rumors of violence
        and reports of one ruler warring against another.
⁴⁷     So, look! the days are coming
        when I will punish Babylon’s idols.
    Her whole land will suffer humiliation,
        and her dead will lie unburied within her borders.
⁴⁸     Then the heavens and the earth and all that is within them
        will shout for joy over the disaster that comes upon Babylon,
    For the destroying armies will march against Babylon from out of the north.

⁴⁹     As the slain of Israel fell, so must Babylon fall.
        As the slain of all the earth fell, so must Babylon fall.
⁵⁰     You who escape the blade of the sword
        must get out now. Don’t delay!
    Remember Me in that distant land;
        remember the Eternal, and think fondly of Jerusalem.