⁶ “Flee^(A) from Babylon!
    Run for your lives!
    Do not be destroyed because of her sins.^(B)
It is time^(C) for the Lord’s vengeance;^(D)
    he will repay^(E) her what she deserves.

⁴⁸ Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
    will shout^(A) for joy over Babylon,
for out of the north^(B)
    destroyers^(C) will attack her,”
declares the Lord.

⁸ Because you have plundered many nations,
    the peoples who are left will plunder you.^(A)
For you have shed human blood;^(B)
    you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.^(C)