Jeremiah 51:48-50

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴⁸Then the heavens and the earth,
    and all that is in them,
shall shout for joy over Babylon;
    for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north,
says the Lord.
⁴⁹Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,
    as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

⁵⁰You survivors of the sword,
go, do not linger!
Remember the Lord in a distant land,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind:

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