8"Flee out of Babylon; leave the land of the Babylonians, and be like the goats that lead the flock.


In Context

5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

6 "My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.

7 Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, 'We are not guilty, for they sinned against the Lord , their true pasture, the Lord , the hope of their fathers.'

8 "Flee out of Babylon; leave the land of the Babylonians, and be like the goats that lead the flock.

9 For I will stir up and bring against Babylon an alliance of great nations from the land of the north. They will take up their positions against her, and from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.

10 So Babylonia will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill," declares the Lord .

Jeremiah 50:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

50:8Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

50:8Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the head of the flock.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

50:8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

50:8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flock.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

50:8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

50:8Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth from the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

50:8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

50:8Move ye from the midst of Babylon, And from the land of the Chaldeans go out. And be as he-goats before a flock.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

50:8Remove out of the middle of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.