50 You who have escaped the sword,
    leave and do not linger!
Remember the Lord in a distant land,
    and call to mind Jerusalem.’

51 ‘We are disgraced,
    for we have been insulted
    and shame covers our faces,
because foreigners have entered
    the holy places of the Lord’s house.’

52 ‘But days are coming,’ declares the Lord,
    ‘when I will punish her idols,
and throughout her land
    the wounded will groan.

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