5. [To] Zion they ask the way, Thitherward [are] their faces: Come in, and we are joined unto Jehovah, A covenant age-during--not forgotten.
6. A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, [To] the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.
7. All finding them have devoured them, And their adversaries have said: We are not guilty, Because that they sinned against Jehovah, The habitation of righteousness, And the hope of their fathers--Jehovah.
8. Move ye from the midst of Babylon, And from the land of the Chaldeans go out. And be as he-goats before a flock.
9. For, lo, I am stirring up, And am causing to come up against Babylon, An assembly of great nations from a land of the north, And they have set in array against her, From thence she is captured, Its arrow--as a skilful hero--returneth not empty,
10. And Chaldea hath been for a spoil, All her spoilers are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.
11. Because thou rejoicest, because thou exultest, O spoilers of Mine inheritance, Because thou increasest as a heifer [at] the tender grass, And dost cry aloud as bulls,
12. Ashamed hath been your mother greatly, Confounded hath she been that bare you, Lo, the hindermost of nations [is] a wilderness, A dry land, and a desert.
13. Because of the wrath of Jehovah it is not inhabited, And it hath been a desolation-- all of it. Every passer by at Babylon is astonished, And doth hiss because of all her plagues.