Jeremiah 50:1-7 ▼

1 This is the word the LORD spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through the prophet Jeremiah:

2 Announce to the nations; proclaim and raise up a signal flag; proclaim, and hide nothing. Say, “Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is terrified.” Her idols are put to shame; her false gods, devastated.

3 For a nation from the north will attack her; it will make her land desolate. No one will be living in it — both people and animals will escape.

4 In those days and at that time — this is the LORD’s declaration — the Israelites and Judeans will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

5 They will ask about Zion, turning their faces to this road. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in a permanent covenant that will never be forgotten.

6 My people were lost sheep; their shepherds led them astray, guiding them the wrong way in the mountains. They wandered from mountain to hill; they forgot their resting place.

7 Whoever found them devoured them. Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty; instead, they have sinned against the LORD, their righteous grazing land, the hope of their ancestors, the LORD.”