Jeremiah 50:1-7 ▼

1 The word that YHWH spoke concerning Babylon and concerning the land of the Chaldeans by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.

2 “Declare it among the nations, and make it heard, and lift up a signal; make it heard, and do not hide it! Say, ‘Is taken Babylon, is put to shame Bel, is dismayed Merodach; are put to shame her idols, are dismayed her images!’

3 For a nation from the north has come up against her, and it will set her land as a desolation, and there will be no one dwelling in her, from man even to beast—they will wander off; they will depart.”

4 “In those days and at that time,” a declaration of YHWH, “will come the sons of Israel, they and the sons of Judah together; going on and weeping they will come, and YHWH their God they will seek.

5 They will ask the way to Zion, with their faces toward it: Come and let us join ourselves to YHWH in a covenant forever that will not be forgotten.

6 My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, in the mountains they have turned them away. From mountain to hill they have gone; they have forgotten their resting place.

7 All those finding them have devoured them, and their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty, upon that they have sinned against YHWH, the habitation of righteousness, and the hope of their fathers—YHWH.’