Jeremiah 50:1-7
The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of
the Chaldeans, by the prophet Jeremiah:
Declare among the nations and proclaim,
set up a banner and proclaim,
do not conceal it, say:
Babylon is taken,
Bel is put to shame,
Merodach is dismayed.
Her images are put to shame,
her idols are dismayed.
For out of the north a nation has come up against her; it shall make her
land a desolation, and no one shall live in it; both human beings and
animals shall flee away.
In those days and in that time, says the LORD, the people of Israel shall
come, they and the people of Judah together; they shall come weeping as
they seek the LORD their God. They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces
turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the LORD by
an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray,
turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone,
they have forgotten their fold. All who found them have devoured them,
and their enemies have said, "We are not guilty, because they have sinned
against the LORD, the true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their
ancestors."
