1 The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 “Declare among the nations,Proclaim, and set up a standard;Proclaim—do not conceal it—Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed.Merodach is broken in pieces;Her idols are humiliated,Her images are broken in pieces.’
3 For out of the north a nation comes up against her,Which shall make her land desolate,And no one shall dwell therein.They shall move, they shall depart,Both man and beast.
4 “In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,“The children of Israel shall come,They and the children of Judah together;With continual weeping they shall come,And seek the Lord their God.
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.’