46 Don’t lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land.One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year.Rumors of violence are in the land.Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.
47 That is why the days are coming when I will punish Babylon’s idols.The whole country will be put to shame,and all its soldiers will lie dead.
48 Then heaven and earth and everything in them will rejoice over Babylon,because destroyers from the north will attack it,”declares the Lord.
49 Because the people of Babylon have killed many Israelitesand because they have killed many people throughout the earth,Babylon must fall.
50 You people who escaped from the sword, leave!Don’t just stand there.Remember the Lord in a distant land, and think about Jerusalem.
51 We have been put to shame, and we have been disgraced.Shame covers our faces, because foreigners have goneinto the holy places of the Lord’s temple.
52 “That is why the days are coming,” declares the Lord,“when I will punish their idols,and those who are wounded will moan everywhere in the land.