49. “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
50. You who have escaped the sword, go!Don’t stand still!Remember the Lord from afar,and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
51. “We are confounded,because we have heard reproach.Confusion has covered our faces,for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.”
52. “Therefore behold, the days come,” says the Lord,“that I will execute judgement on her engraved images;and through all her land the wounded will groan.
53. Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,and though she should fortify the height of her strength,yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says the Lord.
54. “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,and of great destruction from the land of the Kasdim!
55. For the Lord lays Babylon waste,and destroys out of her the great voice!Their waves roar like many waters.The noise of their voice is uttered.