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Jer.|50:1|-|The word which Jehovah spoke concerning |1a|Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
Jer.|50:2|-|Declare among the nations and proclaim;Lift up a banner, proclaim it.
Do not conceal it, but say,|a|Babylon is captured;
|1|Bel is put to shame;|1|Merodach is shattered;
Her images are put to shame;Her idols are dismayed.
Jer.|50:3|-|For a |1|nation has come up against her from the |a|north;It will make her land a waste,
And there will be |b|no inhabitant in it;Both man and beast have fled; they are gone away.
Jer.|50:4|-|In those days and at that time, declares Jehovah,The children of Israel will come,
Both they and the children of Judah |a|together;They will go along with |b|weeping as they go,
And they will |c|seek Jehovah their God.
Jer.|50:5|-|They will ask for the way to ZionWith their faces toward it, saying:
Come and let us join ourselves to JehovahIn an eternal |a|covenant that will not be forgotten.
Jer.|50:6|-|My people are lost |a|sheep;Their shepherds have led them astray;
They have made them turn aside on the mountains;They have gone from mountain to hill;
They have forgotten their resting place.
Jer.|50:7|-|All who found them have devoured them,And their adversaries have said, We are not guilty,
Because they have sinned against Jehovah,The |1a|habitation of righteousness,
Even Jehovah, the |b|hope of their fathers.
Jer.|50:8|-||1a|Flee from the midst of Babylon,And go out from the land of the Chaldeans,
And be as male goatsBefore the flock.
Jer.|50:9|-|For I am about to stir up and bring up against BabylonAn assembly of great nations from the land of the north;
And they will set themselves in array against her,And she will be taken captive from there.
Their arrows will be like those of an expert mighty man;None will return empty-handed.
Jer.|50:10|-|And Chaldea will become spoil;All those who spoil her will be satisfied, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|50:11|-|Because you rejoiced, because you exulted,O you who plunder My |a|inheritance,
Because you spring about as a threshing heifer,And you neigh like stallions,
Jer.|50:12|-|Your mother has been greatly ashamed;She who bore you has become a reproach:
Indeed, she has become the last of the nations,A wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
Jer.|50:13|-|Because of the wrath of Jehovah she will not be inhabited,But she will become a complete |a|desolation;
For every one who passes by Babylon will be astonishedAnd will hiss at all her wounds.
Jer.|50:14|-|Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around,All those who bend the bow;
Shoot at her; spare no arrow;Because she has sinned against Jehovah;
Jer.|50:15|-|Raise a shout against her all around.She has surrendered; her buttresses have fallen,
Her walls have been torn down;For this is the vengeance of Jehovah:
Take |1|vengeance on her;|a|As she has done, so do to her.
Jer.|50:16|-|Cut off the sower from Babylon,And the one who handles a sickle in the time of harvest;
Because of the sword of the oppressorEach one will turn to his people,
And each one flee to his own land.
Jer.|50:17|-|Israel is a scattered sheep;Lions have driven him away.
First the |a|king of Assyria devoured him, and last this |b|Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.
Jer.|50:18|-|Therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of |a|Assyria.
Jer.|50:19|-|And I will bring Israel back to his |a|habitation,And he will feed on Carmel and Bashan,
And in the hill country of Ephraim and in GileadHe will satisfy his soul.
Jer.|50:20|-|In those days and at that time, declares Jehovah,The |a|iniquity of Israel will be sought, but there will be none;
And the sin of Judah, but it will not be found;For I will forgive those whom I will leave as a remnant.
Jer.|50:21|-|Go up against her, against the land of |1|MerathaimAnd against the inhabitants of Pekod.
Desolate and utterly destroy them, declares Jehovah,And do according to all that I commanded you.
Jer.|50:22|-||a|The sound of war is in the land,And great destruction.
Jer.|50:23|-|How the |a|hammer of the whole earthIs cut down and broken!
How Babylon has become an astonishmentAmong the nations!
Jer.|50:24|-|I have set a snare for you, and you also have been taken captive,O Babylon, and you did not know;
You were found, and you also were seized,Because you engaged in war with Jehovah.
Jer.|50:25|-|Jehovah has opened His armoryAnd has brought out the weapons of His wrath,
For this is the work of the Lord Jehovah of hostsAgainst the land of the Chaldeans.
Jer.|50:26|-|Come against her from every side;Open her granaries.
Pile her up like heaps;Destroy her utterly;
Let nothing of her remain.
Jer.|50:27|-|Slay all her oxen;Let them go down to slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,The time of their punishment.
Jer.|50:28|-|There is a sound of those who flee and escapeFrom the land of Babylon,
To |a|declare in ZionThe vengeance of Jehovah our God,
The |1|vengeance for His temple.
Jer.|50:29|-|Summon |1|archers against Babylon,All those who bend the bow.
Encamp against her all around;Let there be no escape.
|a|Recompense her according to her work;According to all that she has done, so do to her.
For she has acted proudly against Jehovah,Against the Holy One of Israel.
Jer.|50:30|-||a|Therefore her young men will fall in her open squares,And all her men of war will be silenced in that day,
Declares Jehovah.
Jer.|50:31|-||a|Indeed, I am against you, O |1|Pride,Declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts;
For your day has come,The time that I punish you.
Jer.|50:32|-|And Pride will stumble and fall,And there will be no one to raise him up.
And I will kindle a fire in his cities,And it will devour all that is around him.
Jer.|50:33|-|Thus says Jehovah of hosts,The children of Israel
And the children of Judah are oppressed together;And all who took them captive held them fast;
They refused to let them go.
Jer.|50:34|-|Their |a|Redeemer is strong;Jehovah of hosts is His name.
He will surely plead their cause,That He may give rest to the land
But trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jer.|50:35|-|The sword is against the Chaldeans, declares Jehovah,And against the inhabitants of Babylon
And against her princes and against her wise men.
Jer.|50:36|-|The sword is against the liars, and they will become fools;The sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
Jer.|50:37|-|The sword is against |1|their horses and against |1|their chariotsAnd against all the mingled people who are in her midst,
And they will become like women.The sword is against her treasuries,
And they will be plundered.
Jer.|50:38|-|Drought is upon her waters,And they will dry up;
For it is a land of graven images,And they are mad over terrifying idols.
Jer.|50:39|-|Therefore desert |a|animals will dwell there with hyenas,And ostriches will dwell in her.
It will |b|not be inhabited forever;It will not be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Jer.|50:40|-|As when God overthrew |a|SodomAnd Gomorrah with its neighbors,
Declares Jehovah,So no one will dwell there;
Nor will a son of man sojourn in it.
Jer.|50:41|-||a|A people is now coming from the |b|north,And a great nation and many kings
Are stirring from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Jer.|50:42|-|They grasp bow and spear;They are cruel and have no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea,And they ride upon horses,
Set in array as a man for battleAgainst you, O daughter of Babylon.
Jer.|50:43|-|The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,And his hands are feeble;
Distress has seized him,Pain like a woman in |a|childbirth.
Jer.|50:44|-||a|Indeed, one will come up like a lionFrom the |b|majesty of the Jordan against a secure habitation;
For I will suddenly make them run away from her;And whoever is chosen I will appoint over her.
For who is like Me? And who can appoint Me a time?And who is that shepherd who can stand before Me?
Jer.|50:45|-|Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah,Which He purposed against |a|Babylon,
And His thoughts, which He has thoughtAgainst the land of the Chaldeans:
Surely they will drag them off, the little ones of the flock;Surely He will make their habitation a desolation because of them.
Jer.|50:46|-|At the sound of Babylon being seizedThe earth trembles,
And a cry is heard among the nations.
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