49. “Babylon killed people from Israel.Babylon killed people from everywhere on earth.So Babylon must fall.
50. You people escaped being killed with swords.You must hurry and leave Babylon.Don’t wait!Remember the Lord in the faraway land where you are.And think about Jerusalem.”
51. “We people of Judah are disgraced.We have been insulted.We have been shamed.This is because strangers have gone intothe holy places of the Lord’s Temple!”
52. The Lord says, “The time is comingwhen I will punish the idols of Babylon.Wounded people will cry with painall over that land.
53. Babylon might grow until she touches the sky.She might make her cities strong.But I will send people to destroy that city,” says the Lord.
54. “We can hear people crying in Babylon.We hear the sound of people destroying thingsin the land of the Babylonians.