5 Those people will ask how to go to Jerusalem.They will start to go in that direction.They will come and join themselves to the Lord.They will make an agreement that will last forever.It will be an agreement that will never be forgotten.
6 “My people have been like lost sheep.Their leaders have led them in the wrong way.Their leaders made them wander around in the mountains and hills.They forgot where their resting place was.
7 Whoever found my people hurt them.And those enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong.Those people sinned against the Lord, their true resting place.He was the God their fathers trusted.’
8 “Run away from Babylon.Leave the land of the Babylonians.Be like the goats that lead the flock.
9 I will bring against Babylonmany nations from the north.This group of nations will take their places for war against Babylon.Babylon will be captured by people from the north.Their arrows are like trained soldierswho do not return from war with empty hands.
10 The enemy will take all the wealth from the Babylonians.Those enemy soldiers will get all they want!” says the Lord.
11 “Babylon, you are excited and happy.You took my land.You dance around like a young cow in the grain.Your laughter is like the neighing of male horses.