Jeremiah

⁵⁰You who have escaped the sword, go!Don’t stand still!Remember the Lord from afar,and let Jerusalem come into your mind.” ⁵¹“We are confounded,because we have heard reproach.Confusion has covered our faces,for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.” ⁵²“Therefore behold, the days come,” says the Lord,“that I will execute judgment on her engraved images;and through all her land the wounded will groan. ⁵³Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,and though she should fortify the height of her strength,yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says the Lord. ⁵⁴“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,and of great destruction from the land of the Kasdim! ⁵⁵For the Lord lays Babylon waste,and destroys out of her the great voice!Their waves roar like many waters.The noise of their voice is uttered. ⁵⁶For the destroyer has come on her,even on Babylon.Her mighty men are taken.Their bows are broken in pieces,for the Lord is a God of retribution.He will surely repay.