“Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
Everyone save his own life!
Don’t be cut off in her iniquity,
for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance.
He will give to her a recompense.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 51:6 in context
Jeremiah 51:3–9
3
Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow,
also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail.
Don’t spare her young men!
Utterly destroy all her army!
4
They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
and thrust through in her streets.
5
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God,
by the LORD of Armies;
though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
6
Selected verse
“Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
Everyone save his own life!
Don’t be cut off in her iniquity,
for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance.
He will give to her a recompense.
7
Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand,
who made all the earth drunk.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations have gone mad.
8
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed!
Wail for her!
Take balm for her pain.
Perhaps she may be healed.
9
“We would have healed Babylon,
but she is not healed.
Forsake her,
and let’s each go into his own country;
for her judgment reaches to heaven,
and is lifted up even to the skies.
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