KJV King James Version
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
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Jeremiah 51:50
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
WEB World English Bible
You who have escaped the sword, go, don’t stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
ASV American Standard Version
Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 51
47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is] therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
49 As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’S house.
52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
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פְּלֵטִ֣יםH6412 · pa.litsurvivorמֵחֶ֔רֶבH2719 · che.revswordהִלְכ֖וּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentאַֽל־H408 · alnotתַּעֲמֹ֑דוּH5975 · a.madto stand: standזִכְר֤וּH2142 · za.kharto rememberמֵֽרָחוֹק֙H7350 · ra.choqdistantאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]יְהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDוִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֖םH3389 · ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalemתַּעֲלֶ֥הH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseעַל־H5921 · aluponלְבַבְכֶֽם׃H3824 · le.vavheart
Cross-references
Jeremiah 44:28Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.Psalm 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Daniel 9:2-3In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.Isaiah 51:11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away.Jeremiah 51:45My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.Ezra 1:3-5Who [is there] among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he [is] the God,) which [is] in Jerusalem.Isaiah 52:11-12Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean [thing]; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.Psalm 137:5-6If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her cunning].Zechariah 2:7-9Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of Babylon.Jeremiah 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.Psalm 102:13-14Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.Deuteronomy 30:1-4And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,Jeremiah 50:8Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.Nehemiah 1:2-4That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and [certain] men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.Nehemiah 2:3-5And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, [lieth] waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?Jeremiah 31:21Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.Jeremiah 29:12-14Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
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