Bible Strands
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.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses survivors fleeing Babylon’s imminent destruction, urging them to depart before the advancing military force reaches them.
The words — The text commands פְּלֵטִ֣ים (pe.le.Tim) = O escapees to הִלְכ֖וּ (hil.Khu) = go, while explicitly forbidding תַּעֲמֹ֑דוּ (ta.'a.Mo.du) = you stand still. It then commands זִכְר֤וּ (zikh.Ru) = remember the LORD from מֵֽ/רָחוֹק֙ (me./ra.chOk) = a distant land.
The thread — The pattern of fleeing survivors and fixing attention on Jerusalem recurs in Jeremiah 44:28, Psalms 122:6, and Ezra 1:3.
Why it lands — The text demands immediate physical departure from danger, sustained spiritual focus on God despite geographic displacement, and deliberate remembrance of Jerusalem as the center of covenant identity.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 44:28 Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
- Psalms 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.
- Ezra 1:3 Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 51:11 So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Isaiah 52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:45 Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
- Daniel 9:2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
- Revelation 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
- Deuteronomy 30:1 “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
- Psalms 102:13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.