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Bible in Basic English
You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.
New American Standard Bible
Depart! Do not stay!
And let Jerusalem
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.
Holman Bible
go and do not stand still!
Remember the Lord from far away,
and let Jerusalem come to your mind.
International Standard Version
Go, you who escaped the sword! Don't stand around! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.
A Conservative Version
Ye who have escaped the sword, go ye; do not stand still. Remember LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
American Standard Version
Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Amplified
You who have escaped the sword,
Go away! Do not stay!
Remember the Lord from far away,
And let [desolate] Jerusalem come into your mind.
Darby Translation
Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Julia Smith Translation
Being saved from the sword, go: ye shall not stand: remember from far off Jehovah, and Jerusalem shall come up upon your heart
King James 2000
You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Survivors of [the] sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far [away], and let Jerusalem come to your {mind}.
Modern King James verseion
You who have escaped the sword, go away; do not stand still. Remember Jehovah afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye that have escaped the sword: haste you, stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and think upon Jerusalem:
NET Bible
You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.
New Heart English Bible
You who have escaped the sword, go, do not stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye that have escaped the sword, depart do not stand still, - Remember, from afar Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart:-
Webster
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
World English Bible
You who have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:50
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Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
49 As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out. 50 You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind. 51 We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men from strange lands have come into the holy places of the Lord's house.
Cross References
Jeremiah 44:28
And those who get away safe from the sword will come back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a very small number; and all the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will see whose word has effect, mine or theirs.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.
Jeremiah 51:45
My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 30:1-4
Now when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you,
Ezra 1:3-5
Whoever there is among you of his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and take in hand the building of the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:2-4
That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,
Nehemiah 2:3-5
And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?
Psalm 137:5-6
If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.
Isaiah 48:20
Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.
Isaiah 51:11
Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
Isaiah 52:2
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:11-12
Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:12-14
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.
Jeremiah 31:21
Put up guiding pillars, make road signs for yourself: give attention to the highway, even the way in which you went: be turned again, O virgin of Israel, be turned to these your towns.
Jeremiah 50:8
Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.
Jeremiah 51:6
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.
Daniel 9:2-3
In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
Daniel 9:16-19
O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.
Zechariah 2:7-9
Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.
Revelation 18:4
And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.