51 Or “Media, you are my war club … I will use you to smash … leaders. So before your very eyes I will repay … for all the wicked things they did in Zion.” For explanation see the translator’s note on v. . The position of the phrase “before your eyes” at the end of the verse after “which they did in Zion” and the change in person from second masculine singular in vv. 20b–23 (“I used you to smite”) to second masculine plural in “before your eyes” argue that a change in referent/addressee occurs in this verse. To maintain that the referent in vv. 20–23 is Media/Cyrus requires that this position and change in person be ignored; “before your eyes” then is attached to “I will repay.” The present translation follows J. A. Thompson (Jeremiah [], ) and F. B. Huey (Jeremiah, Lamentations [], ) in seeing the referent as the Judeans who had witnessed the destruction of Zion/Jerusalem. The word “Judean” has been supplied for the sake of identifying the referent for the modern reader.
52 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

In other versions

“I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord.

“Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion,” declares the Lord.

“Before your very eyes, I will repay Babylon and all the residents of Chaldea for all their evil they have done in Zion.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

“I will repay Babylon

and the people of Babylonia

for all the wrong they have done

to my people in Jerusalem,” says the Lord.

And I will repay Babylon,

and all the inhabitants of Chaldea,

all their wickedness that they have done in Zion

before your eyes,” declares Yahweh.

And I will render unto Babylon

And to all the inhabitants of Chaldea

All their evil that they have done in Zion

In your sight, saith the Lord.

Public Domain