Jeremiah 50:28-30

Easy-to-Read Version

²⁸People are running out of Babylon.
    They are escaping from that country and coming to Zion.
They are telling everyone the good news about what the Lord is doing.
    The Lord our God is giving Babylon the punishment it deserves.
The Lord is destroying Babylon,
    because it destroyed his Temple!

²⁹“Call for the archers.
    Tell them to attack Babylon.
Tell them to surround the city.
    Don’t let anyone escape.
Pay her back for the bad things she has done.
    Do to her what she has done to other nations.
Babylon did not respect the Lord.
    Babylon was very rude to the Holy One of Israel.
    So punish Babylon.
³⁰Babylon’s young men will be killed in the streets.
    All her soldiers will die on that day.”
This is what the Lord says.