Jeremiah 50
50The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the prophet Jeremiah:H1697H3068H1696H894H776H3778H3027H3414H50302Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, do not conceal it, say: Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.H5046H1471H8085H5375H5251H8085H3582H559H894H3920H1078H3001H4781H2865H6091H3001H1544H28653For out of the north a nation has come up against her; it shall make her land a desolation, and no one shall live in it; both human beings and animals shall flee away.H6828H5927H1471H7896H776H8047H3427H5110H1980H120H9294In those days and in that time, says the LORD, the people of Israel shall come, they and the people of Judah together; they shall come weeping as they seek the LORD their God.H3117H6256H5002H3068H1121H3478H935H1121H3063H3162H1980H1058H3212H1245H3068H4305They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the LORD by an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.H7592H1870H6726H6440H2008H935H3867H3068H5769H1285H79116My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their fold.H5971H6H6629H7462H8582H7725H7726H2022H1980H2022H1389H7911H72587All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, "We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors."H4672H398H6862H559H816H2398H3068H5116H6664H3068H4723H18Flee from Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be like male goats leading the flock.H5110H8432H894H3318H3318H776H3778H6260H6440H66299For I am going to stir up and bring against Babylon a company of great nations from the land of the north; and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like the arrows of a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.H5782H5927H894H6951H1419H1471H6828H776H6186H3920H2671H1368H7919H7921H7725H738710Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, says the LORD.H3778H7998H7997H7646H5002H306811Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and neigh like stallions,H8055H5937H8154H5159H6335H5697H1877H1758H6670H4712your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Lo, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, dry land, and a desert.H517H3966H954H3205H2659H319H1471H4057H6723H616013Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled and hiss because of all her wounds.H7110H3068H3427H8077H5674H894H8074H8319H434714Take up your positions around Babylon, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.H6186H894H5439H1869H7198H3034H2550H2671H2398H306815Raise a shout against her from all sides, "She has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are thrown down." For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her, do to her as she has done.H7321H5439H5414H3027H803H5307H2346H2040H5360H3068H5358H6213H621316Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the wielder of the sickle in time of harvest; because of the destroying sword all of them shall return to their own people, and all of them shall flee to their own land.H3772H2232H894H8610H4038H6256H7105H6440H3238H2719H6437H376H5971H5127H376H77617Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.H3478H6340H7716H738H5080H7223H4428H804H398H314H5019H4428H894H610518Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H6485H4428H894H776H6485H4428H80419I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead its hunger shall be satisfied.H7725H3478H7725H5116H7462H3760H1316H5315H7646H2022H669H156820In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and none shall be found; for I will pardon the remnant that I have spared.H3117H6256H5002H3068H5771H3478H1245H2403H3063H4672H5545H760421Go up to the land of Merathaim; go up against her, and attack the inhabitants of Pekod and utterly destroy the last of them, says the LORD; do all that I have commanded you.H5927H776H4850H3427H6489H2717H2763H310H5002H3068H6213H668022The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!H6963H4421H776H1419H766723How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!H6360H776H1438H7665H894H8047H147124You set a snare for yourself and you were caught, O Babylon, but you did not know it; you were discovered and seized, because you challenged the LORD.H3369H3920H894H3045H4672H8610H1624H306825The LORD has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a task to do in the land of the Chaldeans.H3068H6605H214H3318H3627H2195H4399H136H3069H6635H776H377826Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.H935H7093H6605H3965H5549H6194H2763H761127Kill all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Alas for them, their day has come, the time of their punishment!H2717H6499H3381H2874H1945H3117H935H6256H648628Listen! Fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon are coming to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.H6963H5127H6405H776H894H5046H6726H5360H3068H430H5360H196429Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her—for she has arrogantly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.H8085H7228H894H1869H7198H2583H5439H6413H7999H6467H6213H6213H2102H3068H6918H347830Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, says the LORD.H970H5307H7339H582H4421H1826H3117H5002H306831I am against you, O arrogant one, says the Lord GOD of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.H2087H5002H136H3069H6635H3117H935H6256H648532The arrogant one shall stumble and fall, with no one to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him.H2087H3782H5307H6965H3341H784H5892H398H543933Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and so too are the people of Judah; all their captors have held them fast and refuse to let them go.H559H3068H6635H1121H3478H1121H3063H6231H3162H7617H2388H3985H797134Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.H1350H2389H3068H6635H8034H7378H7378H7379H7280H776H7264H3427H89435A sword against the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials and her sages!H2719H3778H5002H3068H3427H894H8269H245036A sword against the diviners, so that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, so that they may be destroyed!H2719H907H2973H2719H1368H286537A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, so that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!H2719H5483H7393H6153H8432H802H2719H214H96238A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they go mad over idols.H2721H4325H3001H776H6456H1984H36739Therefore wild animals shall live with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall inhabit her; she shall never again be peopled, or inhabited for all generations.H6728H338H3427H1323H3284H3427H3427H5331H7931H1755H175540As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says the LORD, so no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in her.H430H4114H5467H6017H7934H5002H3068H376H3427H1121H120H148141Look, a people is coming from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.H5971H935H6828H1419H1471H7227H4428H5782H3411H77642They wield bow and spear, they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride upon horses, set in array as a warrior for battle, against you, O daughter Babylon!H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H89443The king of Babylon heard news of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain like that of a woman in labor.H4428H894H8085H8088H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H320544Like a lion coming up from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly chase them away from her; and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who can summon me? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?H5927H738H1347H3383H5116H386H7323H7280H7323H7323H977H6485H3259H7462H5975H644045Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.H8085H6098H3068H3289H894H4284H2803H776H3778H6810H6629H5498H5116H807446At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations.H6963H8610H894H776H7493H2201H8085H1471
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