Jeremiah 51:45-50

Expanded Bible

⁴⁵ “Come out of it [^CBabylon], my people!
    ·Run for [Escape with] your lives!
    ·Run [Escape] from the Lord’s great anger.
⁴⁶ Don’t lose ·courage [heart];
    rumors will spread through the land, but don’t be afraid.
One rumor comes this year, and another comes the next year.
    There will be rumors of ·terrible fighting [violence] in the country,
    of rulers fighting against rulers.
⁴⁷ The ·time will surely come [^Ldays are coming]
    when I will punish the idols of Babylon,
and the whole land will be disgraced.
    There will be many ·dead people [corpses] ·lying all around [^Lfalling in its midst].
⁴⁸ Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
    will shout for joy about Babylon.
They will shout because the army comes from the north [^CPersia and its allies]
    to destroy Babylon,” says the Lord.

⁴⁹ “Babylon must fall, because ·she killed people from [^Lof the corpses of] Israel.
    ·She killed people from everywhere on [^L…and the corpses of all the] earth.
⁵⁰ You who have escaped being killed with swords,
    ·leave Babylon [go; flee; depart]! Don’t wait!
    Remember the Lord in the faraway land
and ·think about Jerusalem [^Llet Jerusalem come up in your heart/mind].”