51:50 You who have escaped the sword, 1
go, do not delay. 2
Remember the Lord in a faraway land.
Think about Jerusalem. 3
51:51 ‘We 4 are ashamed because we have been insulted. 5
Our faces show our disgrace. 6
For foreigners have invaded
the holy rooms 7 in the Lord’s temple.’
1 sn God’s exiled people are told to leave doomed Babylon (see v. 45).
2 tn Heb “don’t stand.”
3 tn Heb “let Jerusalem go up upon your heart.” The “heart” is often viewed as the seat of one’s mental faculties and thought life.
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
4 sn The exiles lament the way they have been humiliated.
5 tn Heb “we have heard an insult.”
6 tn Heb “disgrace covers our face.”
7 tn Or “holy places, sanctuaries.”