50. You who have escaped the sword,Get away! Do not stand still!Remember the Lord afar off,And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
51. We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.Shame has covered our faces,For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.
52. “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.
53. Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven,And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.
54. The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,