Jeremiah 51:49-50
God repays the violence done to His people and calls His scattered people to remember Him and His covenant promises even while living far from Jerusalem.
49 “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
50 You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
God repays the violence done to His people and calls His scattered people to remember Him and His covenant promises even while living far from Jerusalem.
To affirm that Babylon will fall as retribution for the slain of Israel and to exhort the surviving people of God in exile to remember the LORD and Jerusalem while they are far from home.
Jeremiah 51:49–50 connects Babylon’s judgment with the bloodshed of Israel and calls the surviving exiles to remember the Lord while living in foreign lands.
Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates
The LORD will make Babylon sink under the weight of her violence, idolatry, pride, and bloodshed, while calling his people to flee, remember Zion, and trust his irreversible word.