“Come out, my people, flee from Babylon. Save yourselves! Run from the Lord’s fierce anger. But do not panic; don’t be afraid when. you hear the first rumor of approaching forces. For the rumors will keep coming year by year. Violence will erupt in the land as the leaders fight against each other. For the time is surely coming when I will punish this great city and all her idols. Her whole land will be disgraced, and her dead will lie in the streets. Then the heavens will rejoice, for our of the north will come destroying armies against Babylon,” says the Lord.”
“Just as Babylon killed the people of Israel and others throughout the world, so must her people be killed. Get out, all of you who have escaped the sword! Do not stand and watch – flee while you can! Remember the Lord, though you are in a far-off land, and think about your home in Jerusalem.” (vv 45-50, NLT)