50. Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.
51. We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh.
52. “Therefore look, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “and I will punish her images, and the fatally wounded will sigh through all her land.
53. Though Babylon goes up to the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her,” declares Yahweh.
54. The sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans.