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50 You who have escaped being killed with swords,
    ·leave Babylon [go; flee; depart]! Don’t wait!
    Remember the Lord in the faraway land
and ·think about Jerusalem [L let Jerusalem come up in your heart/mind].”

51 “We people of Judah are disgraced,
    because we have been ·insulted [reproached].
    ·We have been shamed [L Shame/Humiliation covers our face],
because strangers have gone into
    the holy places of the Lord’s Temple [L house]!”

52 So the Lord says, “The ·time is [L days are] coming soon
    when I will punish the idols of Babylon.
Wounded people will ·cry with pain [groan]
    all over that land.

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