e way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They
shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant,
which shall never be forgotten.

50:6. My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have caused them
to go astray, and have made them wander in the mountains: they have gone
from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

50:7. All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said:
We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the
Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their
fathers.

50:8. Remove 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.

50:9. For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon an assembly
of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be prepared
against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like
those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.

50:10. And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her shall be
filled, saith the Lord.

50:11. Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my
inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and
have bellowed as bulls.

50:12. Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is
made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations,
a wilderness unpassable, and dry.

50:13. Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but
shall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be
astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues.

50:14. Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all you that bend
the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned
against the Lord.

50:15. Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her
foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the
vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do
to her.

50:16. Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle
in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every man
shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

The dove... Or the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the
one or the other.

50:17. Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away:
first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor
king of Babyl