Jeremiah 51:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶ Get out of Babylon!
    Run for your lives!
If you stay, you will be killed
when I take revenge on the city
    and punish it for its sins.

^7 (A) Babylon was my golden cup,
filled with the wine
    of my anger.
The nations of the world
got drunk on this wine
    and went insane.
⁸ But suddenly, Babylon will fall
    and be destroyed.

I, the Lord, told the foreigners^[a]
    who lived there,
“Weep for the city!
Get medicine for its wounds;
    maybe they will heal.”