Jeremiah 50:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

⁷They were attacked by all who saw them.
    And their attackers said,
‘We were not wrong to attack them
    because they sinned against the Lord.
They should have stayed close to him, their true resting place.
    The Lord is the one their fathers trusted in.’

⁸“Run away from Babylon.
    Leave the land of the Babylonians.
    Be like the goats that lead the flock.
⁹I will bring many nations together from the north.
    This group of nations will get ready for war against Babylon.
Babylon will be captured by people from the north.
    Those nations will shoot many arrows at Babylon.
Their arrows will be like soldiers
    who don’t come back from war with their hands empty.