“You who have escaped the sword, go!Don’t stand still!Remember Yahweh from afar,and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
Jeremiah 51:50 (WEB)
Context Reading
48Then the heavens and the earth,and all that is therein,will sing for joy over Babylon;for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh. 49“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon. 50You who have escaped the sword, go!Don’t stand still!Remember Yahweh from afar,and let Jerusalem come into your mind.” 51“We are confoundedbecause we have heard reproach.Confusion has covered our faces,for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.” 52“Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,“that I will execute judgment on her engraved images;and through all her land the wounded will groan.