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50     You who escape the blade of the sword
        must get out now. Don’t delay!
    Remember Me in that distant land;
        remember the Eternal, and think fondly of Jerusalem.
51     In that bittersweet moment,
        the remnant of My people will say,
    “We are ashamed—we have been insulted by invaders,
        and disgrace covers our faces
    When we think of foreigners entering the holy places of the Eternal’s temple
        and defiling it by their presence.”

52     But I, the Eternal One, declare that the day will come
        when I will punish Babylon’s images and idols;
        and the groans of her dying will echo through the land.

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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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