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My people have been lost sheep.[a]
Their shepherds led them astray.
Turning around in the mountains,
they went from mountain to hill,
and forgot their resting place.
Everyone finding them devoured them.
Their foes said: ‘We’re not guilty!’
Instead, they sinned against Adonai,
the habitation of justice—
Adonai, the hope of their fathers.”

Doom of Babylon

“Flee from within Babylon,[b]
get out of the land of the Chaldeans,
and be like he-goats before the flock.

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