Jeremiah 50:1–8
*The word that the Lord spake aagainst Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans †by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and †bset up a standard;
Publish, and conceal not:
Say, cBabylon is taken, dBel is confounded, eMerodach is broken in pieces;
fHer idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
3 For gout of the north there cometh up a nation against her,
hWhich shall make her land desolate,
And inone shall dwell therein:
They shall remove, they shall depart, kboth man and beast.
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord,
The children of Israel shall come,
lThey and the children of Judah together,
mGoing and weeping: they shall go,
And nseek the Lord their God.
5 oThey shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, psaying,
Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord
In qa perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
6 rMy people hath been slost sheep:
Their shepherds have caused them to go astray, tthey have turned them away uon the mountains:
uThey have gone from mountain to hill,
They have forgotten their †vrestingplace.
7 All that found them whave devoured them:
And xtheir adversaries said, yWe offend not,
Because they have sinned against the Lord, zthe habitation of justice,
Even the Lord, athe hope of their fathers.
8 bRemove cout of the midst of Babylon,
And cgo forth out of the land of the Chaldeans,
And be as dthe he goats before the flocks.