Jeremiah 51:50

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.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
You people escaped the swords. You must hurry and leave Babylon. Don't wait! You are in a faraway land, but remember the Lord where you are and remember Jerusalem."

New Living Translation
Get out, all 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."

New American Standard Bible
You who have escaped the sword, Go! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from far away, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

New Century Version
You who have escaped being killed with swords, leave Babylon! Don't wait! Remember the Lord in the faraway land and think about Jerusalem."

New English Translation
You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.

Update Bible Version
You that have escaped the sword, go, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Amplified Bible
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.

English Standard Version
"You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the Lord from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:

World English Bible
You who have escaped the sword, go you, don't stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Come ye, that fledden the swerd, nyle ye stonde; haue ye mynde afer on the Lord, and Jerusalem stie on youre herte.

English Revised Version
Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Berean Standard Bible
You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.

Contemporary English Version
My people, you escaped death when Jerusalem fell. Now you live far from home, but you should trust me and think about Jerusalem. Leave Babylon! Don't stay!

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.

Complete Jewish Bible
You who escaped the sword, go! Don't stand still! Remember Adonai from afar, let Yerushalayim come into your minds.

Darby Translation
Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

King James Version (1611)
Ye that haue escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afarre off: and let Ierusalem come into your mind.

New Life Bible
You who have not been killed by the sword, go! Do not stay! Remember the Lord from far away, and think of Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard
You survivors of the sword, go, do not linger! Remember the Lord in a distant land, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye that haue escaped the sworde, goe away, stand not still: remember the Lord a farre of, and let Ierusalem come into your minde.

George Lamsa Translation
You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still; remember the LORD from afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye that have escaped the sword, depart do not stand still, - Remember, from afar Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart:-

Douay-Rheims Bible
You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Revised Standard Version
"You that have escaped from the sword, go, stand not still! Remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye that haue escaped the sworde, haste you, stande not styl, remember the Lord a farre of, and thynke vpon Hierusalem.

Good News Translation
The Lord says to his people in Babylonia: "You have escaped death! Now go! Don't wait! Though you are far from home, think about me, your Lord , and remember Jerusalem.

Christian Standard Bible®
You who have escaped the sword,go and do not stand still!Remember the Lord from far away,and let Jerusalem come to your mind.

Hebrew Names Version
You who have escaped the sword, go you, don't stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Yerushalayim come into your mind.

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.

Lexham English Bible
Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.

Literal Translation
You who have escaped the sword, go away. Do not stand still. Remember Jehovah afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your heart.

Young's Literal Translation
Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye that haue escaped the swearde, haist you, stode not still, remembre the LORDE afarre of: and thinke vpon Ierusalem,

New King James Version
You who have escaped the sword, Get away! Do not stand still! Remember the LORD afar off, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from afar, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

Legacy Standard Bible
You who have escaped the sword,Go! Do not stand around!Remember Yahweh from afar,And let Jerusalem come upon your heart.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea; ² And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side. ³ Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse. ⁴ And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets. ⁵ For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel. 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. ⁷ Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads. ⁸ Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well. ⁹ We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies. ¹⁰ The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

escaped: Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 51:45, Jeremiah 31:21, Jeremiah 44:28, Jeremiah 50:8, Isaiah 48:20, Isaiah 51:11, Isaiah 52:2, Isaiah 52:11, Isaiah 52:12, Zechariah 2:7-9, Revelation 18:4

remember: Jeremiah 29:12-14, Deuteronomy 4:29-31, Deuteronomy 30:1-4, Ezra 1:3-5, Nehemiah 1:2-4, Nehemiah 2:3-5, Psalms 102:13, Psalms 102:14, Psalms 137:5, Psalms 137:6, Daniel 9:2, Daniel 9:3, Daniel 9:16-19

Jerusalem: Psalms 122:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 51:18 - Do Psalms 137:1 - we wept Jeremiah 50:28 - voice Ezekiel 6:9 - remember Zechariah 2:6 - and flee Zechariah 10:9 - remember

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still,.... The Jews, who had escaped the sword of the Chaldeans when Jerusalem was taken, and were carried captive into Babylon, where they had remained to this time; and had also escaped the sword of the Medes and Persians, when Babylon was taken; these are bid to go away from Babylon, and go into their land, and not stay in Babylon, or linger there, as Lot in Sodom; or stop on the road, but make the best of their way to the land of Judea:

remember the Lord afar off; the worship of the Lord, as the Targum interprets it; the worship of the Lord in the sanctuary at Jerusalem, from which they were afar off at Babylon; and had been a long time, even seventy years, deprived of it, as Kimchi explains it:

and let Jerusalem come into your mind; that once famous city, the metropolis of the nation, that now lay in ruins; the temple that once stood in it, and the service of God there; that upon the remembrance of, and calling these to mind, they might be quickened and stirred up to hasten thither, and rebuild the city and temple, and restore the worship of God. It is not easy to say whose words these are, whether the words of the prophet, or of the Lord by him; or of the inhabitants of the heavens and earth, whose song may be here continued, and in it thus address the Jews.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Afar off - Or, from afar, from Chaldaea, far away from Yahweh’s dwelling in Jerusalem. The verse is a renewed entreaty to the Jews to leave Babylon and journey homewards, as soon as Cyrus grants them permission.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:50. Ye that have escaped the sword — The Jews.

Let Jerusalem come into your mind. — Pray for its restoration; and embrace the first opportunity offered of returning thither.