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Jeremiah 50:28
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet issues a public call regarding the impending judgment of Babylon, directing the message toward the community in Zion at the moment the city's fall becomes imminent.
The words — The Hebrew opens with ק֥וֹל (kol, "sound") and נָסִ֛ים (nasim, "fugitives"), which the syntax structures as an imperative summons to hear the fleeing survivors from Babylon.
The thread — This proclamation aligns with the flight and public declaration motif in Isaiah 48:20, while directly supporting the surrounding commands to execute divine retribution against Babylon in Jeremiah 50:15 and 50:29.
Why it lands — The text demands that the reader recognize God's vengeance for His temple is actively unfolding and must be reported to Zion without delay.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 48:20 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!”
- Jeremiah 50:15 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 done, do the same to her.
- Lamentations 1:10 The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Psalms 149:6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands,
- Jeremiah 51:10 “The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- Lamentations 2:6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
- Daniel 5:23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
- Jeremiah 51:50 You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
- Daniel 5:3 Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
- Zechariah 12:2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.