50 You (A)who have escaped the sword,
Go! Do not stay!
(B)Remember the Lord from far away,
And let Jerusalem [a]come to your mind.
51 (C)We are ashamed because we have heard rebuke;
Disgrace has covered our faces,
Because (D)strangers have entered
The holy places of the Lords house.

52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will punish her (E)idols,
And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:50 Lit come upon your heart

50 You who have escaped the sword,
    leave(A) and do not linger!
Remember(B) the Lord in a distant land,(C)
    and call to mind Jerusalem.”

51 “We are disgraced,(D)
    for we have been insulted
    and shame covers our faces,
because foreigners have entered
    the holy places of the Lord’s house.”(E)

52 “But days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will punish her idols,(F)
and throughout her land
    the wounded will groan.(G)

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