5. They will enquire concerning Zion with their faces turned towards it,saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenantthat will not be forgotten.’
6. My people have been lost sheep.Their shepherds have caused them to go astray.They have turned them away on the mountains.They have gone from mountain to hill.They have forgotten their resting place.
7. All who found them have devoured them.Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty,because they have sinned against the Lord,the habitation of righteousness,even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
8. “Flee out of the middle of Babylon!Go out of the land of the Kasdim,and be as the male goats before the flocks.