Jeremiah 51:6-10

New International Reader's Version

⁶ “People of Judah, run away from Babylon!
    Run for your lives!
    Do not be destroyed because of the sins of its people.
It is time for me to pay them back.
    I will punish them for what they have done.
⁷ Babylon was like a gold cup in my hand.
    That city made the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank its wine.
    So now they have gone crazy.
⁸ Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken.
    Weep for it!
Get healing lotion for its pain.
    Perhaps it can be healed.

⁹ “The nations say, ‘We would have healed Babylon.
    But it can’t be healed.
So let’s leave it. Let’s each go to our own land.
    Babylon’s sins reach all the way to the skies.
    They rise up as high as the heavens.’

¹⁰ “The people of Judah say,
    ‘The Lord has made things right for us again.
So come. Let’s tell in Zion
    what the Lord our God has done.’