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A Message to the Israelites in Babylon
The Lord or the Prophet[a]

50 You who have escaped the sword, go!
Do not delay!
Remember the Lord from afar,
and think of Jerusalem.

The Exiles

51 We are disgraced,
because we have heard a taunt.
Dishonor covers our faces,
because strangers have come into the holy places of
        the House of the Lord.

The Lord

52 So keep watch. The days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will punish all her idols.
Through her whole land the wounded will groan.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:50 Because of the unannounced changes of speaker, the headings mark the speaker of each section.