Jeremiah 50:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² “Announce this message among the nations.
    Lift up a banner.
Let the nations hear the message.
    Do not keep anything back.
Say, ‘Babylon will be captured.
    The god named Bel will be put to shame.
    The god named Marduk will be filled with terror.
Babylon’s gods will be put to shame.
    The gods its people made will be filled with terror.’
³ A nation from the north will attack it.
    That nation will destroy Babylon.
No one will live there.
    People and animals alike will run away.

⁴ “The days are coming,”
    announces the Lord.
“At that time the people of Israel and Judah will gather together.
    They will come in tears to me.
    I am the Lord their God.