Babylon looms on the horizon, but they will not be the big bully forever. Jeremiah has seen his prophecy of the fall of Jerusalem fulfilled and now he sees the destruction of Babylon as well. Israel and their surrounding neigbors are not lost. God has not forgotten his people. The remnant will return.
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.
"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.
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.' Jer. 50:5-7 NIV
God chooses captivity for his people over utter destruction, knowing that exile will turn their hearts back to Him. And those who have taken advantage of God's people, because they thought they were weak or abandoned, will meet their destruction in the end.
"Babylon must fall because of Israel's slain,
just as the slain in all the earth
have fallen because of Babylon. - Jer. 51:49 NIV
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