Jeremiah 51:6 “Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her…”

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Flee 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.

World English Bible

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense.

American Standard Version

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.

Geneva Bible 1599

Flee out of the middes of Babel, and deliuer euery man his soule: be not destroyed in her iniquitie: for this is the time of the Lordes vengeance he will render vnto her a recompence.

Darby Translation

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall render unto her a recompence.

Young's Literal Translation

Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, And deliver ye each his soul, Be not cut off in its iniquity, For a time of vengeance it [is] to Jehovah, Recompence He is rendering to her.

Bible in Basic English

Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.

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Cross references

“Flee”

Jeremiah 50:8 Jeremiah 50:28 Jeremiah 51:45 Jeremiah 51:9 Jeremiah 51:50 Isaiah 48:20

Jeremiah 50:8 · BSB

Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.

Jeremiah 50:28 · BSB

Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

Jeremiah 51:45 · BSB

Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:9 · BSB

“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

Jeremiah 51:50 · BSB

You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”

Isaiah 48:20 · BSB

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

“be not”

Numbers 16:26 1 Timothy 5:22 Genesis 19:15–17 Proverbs 13:20

Numbers 16:26 · BSB

And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

1 Timothy 5:22 · BSB

Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

Genesis 19:15–17 · BSB

At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Proverbs 13:20 · BSB

He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.

“for this”

Jeremiah 50:15 Jeremiah 51:11 Jeremiah 50:31 Revelation 16:19 Jeremiah 27:7 Jeremiah 46:10

Jeremiah 50:15 · BSB

Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has…

Jeremiah 51:11 · BSB

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.

Jeremiah 50:31 · BSB

“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

Revelation 16:19 · BSB

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

Jeremiah 27:7 · BSB

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

Jeremiah 46:10 · BSB

For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in t…

“he will render”

Jeremiah 25:14 Jeremiah 25:16

Jeremiah 25:14 · BSB

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”

Jeremiah 25:16 · BSB

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”

7Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

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