5. They shall ask the way to Zion,With their faces toward it, saying,‘Come and let us join ourselves to the LordIn a perpetual covenantThat will not be forgotten.’
6. “My people have been lost sheep.Their shepherds have led them 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;And their adversaries said, ‘We have not offended,Because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice,The Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
8. “Move from the midst of Babylon,Go out of the land of the Chaldeans;And be like the rams before the flocks.
9. For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against BabylonAn assembly of great nations from the north country,And they shall array themselves against her;From there she shall be captured.Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior;None shall return in vain.
10. And Chaldea shall become plunder;All who plunder her shall be satisfied,” says the Lord.
11. “Because you were glad, because you rejoiced,You destroyers of My heritage,Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain,And you bellow like bulls,
12. Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;She who bore you shall be ashamed.Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness,A dry land and a desert.
13. Because of the wrath of the LordShe shall not be inhabited,But she shall be wholly desolate.Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrifiedAnd hiss at all her plagues.