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Get Out of Babylon as Fast as You Can

50The Message of GOD through the prophet Jeremiah on Babylon, land of the Chaldeans:H1697H3068H1696H894H776H3778H3027H3414H5030 2"Get the word out to the nations! Preach it! Go public with this, broadcast it far and wide: Babylon taken, god-Bel hanging his head in shame, god-Marduk exposed as a fraud. All her god-idols shuffling in shame, all her play-gods exposed as cheap frauds.H5046H1471H8085H5375H5251H8085H3582H559H894H3920H1078H3001H4781H2865H6091H3001H1544H2865 3For a nation will come out of the north to attack her, reduce her cities to rubble. Empty of life—no animals, no people— not a sound, not a movement, not a breath.H6828H5927H1471H7896H776H8047H3427H5110H1980H120H929 4"In those days, at that time"—GOD's Decree— "the people of Israel will come, And the people of Judah with them. Walking and weeping, they'll seek me, their GOD.H3117H6256H5002H3068H1121H3478H935H1121H3063H3162H1980H1058H3212H1245H3068H430 5They'll ask directions to Zion and set their faces toward Zion. They'll come and hold tight to GOD, bound in a covenant eternal they'll never forget.H7592H1870H6726H6440H2008H935H3867H3068H5769H1285H7911 6"My people were lost sheep. Their shepherds led them astray. They abandoned them in the mountains where they wandered aimless through the hills. They lost track of home, couldn't remember where they came from.H5971H6H6629H7462H8582H7725H7726H2022H1980H2022H1389H7911H7258 7Everyone who met them took advantage of them. Their enemies had no qualms: 'Fair game' they said. 'They walked out on GOD. They abandoned the True Pasture, the hope of their parents.'H4672H398H6862H559H816H2398H3068H5116H6664H3068H4723H1 8"But now, get out of Babylon as fast as you can. Be rid of that Babylonian country. On your way. Good sheepdogs lead, but don't you be led. Lead the way home!H5110H8432H894H3318H3318H776H3778H6260H6440H6629 9Do you see what I'm doing? I'm rallying a host of nations against Babylon. They'll come out of the north, attack and take her. Oh, they know how to fight, these armies. They never come home empty-handed.H5782H5927H894H6951H1419H1471H6828H776H6186H3920H2671H1368H7919H7921H7725H7387 10Babylon is ripe for picking! All her plunderers will fill their bellies!" GOD's Decree.H3778H7998H7997H7646H5002H3068 11"You Babylonians had a good time while it lasted, didn't you? You lived it up, exploiting and using my people, Frisky calves romping in lush pastures, wild stallions out having a good time!H8055H5937H8154H5159H6335H5697H1877H1758H6670H47 12Well, your mother would hardly be proud of you. The woman who bore you wouldn't be pleased. Look at what's come of you! A nothing nation! Rubble and garbage and weeds!H517H3966H954H3205H2659H319H1471H4057H6723H6160 13Emptied of life by my holy anger, a desert of death and emptiness. Travelers who pass by Babylon will gasp, appalled, shaking their heads at such a comedown.H7110H3068H3427H8077H5674H894H8074H8319H4347 14Gang up on Babylon! Pin her down! Throw everything you have against her. Hold nothing back. Knock her flat. She's sinned—oh, how she's sinned, against me!H6186H894H5439H1869H7198H3034H2550H2671H2398H3068 15Shout battle cries from every direction. All the fight has gone out of her. Her defenses have been flattened, her walls smashed. 'Operation GOD's Vengeance.' Pile on the vengeance! Do to her as she has done. Give her a good dose of her own medicine!H7321H5439H5414H3027H803H5307H2346H2040H5360H3068H5358H6213H6213 16Destroy her farms and farmers, ravage her fields, empty her barns. And you captives, while the destruction rages, get out while the getting's good, get out fast and run for home.H3772H2232H894H8610H4038H6256H7105H6440H3238H2719H6437H376H5971H5127H376H776 17"Israel is a scattered flock, hunted down by lions. The king of Assyria started the carnage. The king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, Has completed the job, gnawing the bones clean."H3478H6340H7716H738H5080H7223H4428H804H398H314H5019H4428H894H6105 18And now this is what GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, has to say: "Just watch! I'm bringing doom on the king of Babylon and his land, the same doom I brought on the king of Assyria.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H6485H4428H894H776H6485H4428H804 19But Israel I'll bring home to good pastures. He'll graze on the hills of Carmel and Bashan, On the slopes of Ephraim and Gilead. He will eat to his heart's content.H7725H3478H7725H5116H7462H3760H1316H5315H7646H2022H669H1568 20In those days and at that time"—GOD's Decree— "they'll look high and low for a sign of Israel's guilt—nothing; Search nook and cranny for a trace of Judah's sin—nothing. These people that I've saved will start out with a clean slate.H3117H6256H5002H3068H5771H3478H1245H2403H3063H4672H5545H7604 21"Attack Merathaim, land of rebels! Go after Pekod, country of doom! Hunt them down. Make a clean sweep." GOD's Decree. "These are my orders. Do what I tell you.H5927H776H4850H3427H6489H2717H2763H310H5002H3068H6213H6680 22"The thunderclap of battle shakes the foundations!H6963H4421H776H1419H7667 23The Hammer has been hammered, smashed and splintered, Babylon pummeled beyond recognition.H6360H776H1438H7665H894H8047H1471 24I set out a trap and you were caught in it. O Babylon, you never knew what hit you, Caught and held in the steel grip of that trap! That's what you get for taking on GOD.H3369H3920H894H3045H4672H8610H1624H3068 25"I, GOD, opened my arsenal. I brought out my weapons of wrath. The Master, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, has a job to do in Babylon.H3068H6605H214H3318H3627H2195H4399H136H3069H6635H776H3778 26Come at her from all sides! Break into her granaries! Shovel her into piles and burn her up. Leave nothing! Leave no one!H935H7093H6605H3965H5549H6194H2763H7611 27Kill all her young turks. Send them to their doom! Doom to them! Yes, Doomsday! The clock has finally run out on them.H2717H6499H3381H2874H1945H3117H935H6256H6486 28And here's a surprise: Runaways and escapees from Babylon Show up in Zion reporting the news of GOD's vengeance, taking vengeance for my own Temple.H6963H5127H6405H776H894H5046H6726H5360H3068H430H5360H1964 29"Call in the troops against Babylon, anyone who can shoot straight! Tighten the noose! Leave no loopholes! Give her back as good as she gave, a dose of her own medicine! Her brazen insolence is an outrage against GOD, The Holy of Israel.H8085H7228H894H1869H7198H2583H5439H6413H7999H6467H6213H6213H2102H3068H6918H3478 30And now she pays: her young strewn dead in the streets, her soldiers dead, silent forever." GOD's Decree.H970H5307H7339H582H4421H1826H3117H5002H3068 31"Do you get it, Mister Pride? I'm your enemy!" Decree of the Master, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies. "Time's run out on you: That's right: It's Doomsday.H2087H5002H136H3069H6635H3117H935H6256H6485 32Mister Pride will fall flat on his face. No one will offer him a hand. I'll set his towns on fire. The fire will spread wild through the country."H2087H3782H5307H6965H3341H784H5892H398H5439 33And here's more from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies: "The people of Israel are beaten down, the people of Judah along with them. Their oppressors have them in a grip of steel. They won't let go.H559H3068H6635H1121H3478H1121H3063H6231H3162H7617H2388H3985H7971 34But the Rescuer is strong: GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies. Yes, I will take their side, I'll come to their rescue. I'll soothe their land, but rough up the people of Babylon.H1350H2389H3068H6635H8034H7378H7378H7379H7280H776H7264H3427H894 35"It's all-out war in Babylon"—GOD's Decree— "total war against people, leaders, and the wise!H2719H3778H5002H3068H3427H894H8269H2450 36War to the death on her boasting pretenders, fools one and all! War to the death on her soldiers, cowards to a man!H2719H907H2973H2719H1368H2865 37War to the death on her hired killers, gutless wonders! War to the death on her banks—looted!H2719H5483H7393H6153H8432H802H2719H214H962 38War to the death on her water supply—drained dry! A land of make-believe gods gone crazy—hobgoblins!H2721H4325H3001H776H6456H1984H367 39The place will be haunted with jackals and scorpions, night-owls and vampire bats. No one will ever live there again. The land will reek with the stench of death.H6728H338H3427H1323H3284H3427H3427H5331H7931H1755H1755 40It will join Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, the cities I did away with." GOD's Decree. "No one will live there again. No one will again draw breath in that land, ever.H430H4114H5467H6017H7934H5002H3068H376H3427H1121H120H1481 41"And now, watch this! People pouring out of the north, hordes of people, A mob of kings stirred up from far-off places.H5971H935H6828H1419H1471H7227H4428H5782H3411H776 42Flourishing deadly weapons, barbarians they are, cruel and pitiless. Roaring and relentless, like ocean breakers, they come riding fierce stallions, In battle formation, ready to fight you, Daughter Babylon!H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H894 43Babylon's king hears them coming. He goes white as a ghost, limp as a dishrag. Terror-stricken, he doubles up in pain, helpless to fight, like a woman giving birth to a baby.H4428H894H8085H8088H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H3205 44"And now watch this: Like a lion coming up from the thick jungle of the Jordan, Looking for prey in the mountain pastures, I'll take over and pounce. I'll take my pick of the flock—and who's to stop me? All the so-called shepherds are helpless before me."H5927H738H1347H3383H5116H386H7323H7280H7323H7323H977H6485H3259H7462H5975H6440 45So, listen to this plan that GOD has worked out against Babylon, the blueprint of what he's prepared for dealing with Chaldea: Believe it or not, the young, the vulnerable—mere lambs and kids—will be dragged off. Believe it or not, the flock in shock, helpless to help, watches it happen.H8085H6098H3068H3289H894H4284H2803H776H3778H6810H6629H5498H5116H8074 46When the shout goes up, "Babylon's down!" the very earth will shudder at the sound. The news will be heard all over the world.H6963H8610H894H776H7493H2201H8085H1471


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