Jeremiah 50:1-8

International Standard Version

² “Declare and proclaim among the nations.
    Lift up a banner and proclaim.
Don’t conceal anything.^[b]
    Say, ‘Babylon will be captured.
Bel^[c] will be disgraced,
    and Marduk will be destroyed.
Her idols will be disgraced,
    and her filthy images will be destroyed.’
³ For a nation from the north will go up against her.
    It will make her land into an object of horror,
        and no one will live in it.
Both people and animals will wander off,
    and they’ll leave.
⁴ In those days, and at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel will come together
    with the people of Judah.
They’ll be weeping as they travel along,
    and they’ll be seeking the Lord their God.
⁵ They’ll ask the way to Zion,
    turning their faces in that direction.
They’ll come^[d] and join themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant that won’t be forgotten.
⁶ My people have become lost sheep.
    Their shepherds have led them astray,
        turning them toward the mountains.
They go from mountain to hill.
    They have forgotten their resting place.
⁷ All who find them devour them,
    but their enemies say, ‘We’re not guilty,
because they have sinned against
    the Lord, the habitation of righteousness,
        the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’
⁸ Move away from the middle of Babylon,
    and go out of the land of the Chaldeans.
        Be like male goats at the head^[e] of the flock.