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Jeremiah 50
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Judgment on Babylon and Babylonia

50The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.H1697H3068H1696H894H776H3778H3027H3414H5030 2"Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim—do not conceal it—Say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.'H5046H1471H8085H5375H5251H8085H3582H559H894H3920H1078H3001H4781H2865H6091H3001H1544H2865 3For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast.H6828H5927H1471H7896H776H8047H3427H5110H1980H120H929 4"In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their God.H3117H6256H5002H3068H1121H3478H935H1121H3063H3162H1980H1058H3212H1245H3068H430 5They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, saying, 'Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD In a perpetual covenant That will not be forgotten.'H7592H1870H6726H6440H2008H935H3867H3068H5769H1285H7911 6"My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray; They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their resting place.H5971H6H6629H7462H8582H7725H7726H2022H1980H2022H1389H7911H7258 7All who found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said, 'We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, The LORD, the hope of their fathers.'H4672H398H6862H559H816H2398H3068H5116H6664H3068H4723H1 8"Move from the midst of Babylon, Go out of the land of the Chaldeans; And be like the rams before the flocks.H5110H8432H894H3318H3318H776H3778H6260H6440H6629 9For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country, And they shall array themselves against her; From there she shall be captured. Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior; None shall return in vain.H5782H5927H894H6951H1419H1471H6828H776H6186H3920H2671H1368H7919H7921H7725H7387 10And Chaldea shall become plunder; All who plunder her shall be satisfied," says the LORD.H3778H7998H7997H7646H5002H3068 11"Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, You destroyers of My heritage, Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, And you bellow like bulls,H8055H5937H8154H5159H6335H5697H1877H1758H6670H47 12Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; She who bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the nations shall be a wilderness, A dry land and a desert.H517H3966H954H3205H2659H319H1471H4057H6723H6160 13Because of the wrath of the LORD She shall not be inhabited, But she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified And hiss at all her plagues.H7110H3068H3427H8077H5674H894H8074H8319H4347 14"Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around, All you who bend the bow; Shoot at her, spare no arrows, For she has sinned against the LORD.H6186H894H5439H1869H7198H3034H2550H2671H2398H3068 15Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.H7321H5439H5414H3027H803H5307H2346H2040H5360H3068H5358H6213H6213 16Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him who handles the sickle at harvest time. For fear of the oppressing sword Everyone shall turn to his own people, And everyone shall flee to his own land.H3772H2232H894H8610H4038H6256H7105H6440H3238H2719H6437H376H5971H5127H376H776 17"Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones."H3478H6340H7716H738H5080H7223H4428H804H398H314H5019H4428H894H6105 18Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, As I have punished the king of Assyria.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H6485H4428H894H776H6485H4428H804 19But I will bring back Israel to his home, And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan; His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.H7725H3478H7725H5116H7462H3760H1316H5315H7646H2022H669H1568 20In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none; And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found; For I will pardon those whom I preserve.H3117H6256H5002H3068H5771H3478H1245H2403H3063H4672H5545H7604 21"Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod. Waste and utterly destroy them," says the LORD, "And do according to all that I have commanded you.H5927H776H4850H3427H6489H2717H2763H310H5002H3068H6213H6680 22A sound of battle is in the land, And of great destruction.H6963H4421H776H1419H7667 23How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! I have laid a snare for you;H6360H776H1438H7665H894H8047H1471 24You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you were not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the Lord.H3369H3920H894H3045H4672H8610H1624H3068 25The LORD has opened His armory, And has brought out the weapons of His indignation; For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans.H3068H6605H214H3318H3627H2195H4399H136H3069H6635H776H3778 26Come against her from the farthest border; Open her storehouses; Cast her up as heaps of ruins, And destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left.H935H7093H6605H3965H5549H6194H2763H7611 27Slay all her bulls, Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.H2717H6499H3381H2874H1945H3117H935H6256H6486 28The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, The vengeance of His temple.H6963H5127H6405H776H894H5046H6726H5360H3068H430H5360H1964 29"Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all she has done, do to her; For she has been proud against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.H8085H7228H894H1869H7198H2583H5439H6413H7999H6467H6213H6213H2102H3068H6918H3478 30Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD.H970H5307H7339H582H4421H1826H3117H5002H3068 31"Behold, I am against you, O most haughty one!" says the Lord GOD of hosts; "For your day has come, The time that I will punish you.H2087H5002H136H3069H6635H3117H935H6256H6485 32The most proud shall stumble and fall, And no one will raise him up; I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it will devour all around him."H2087H3782H5307H6965H3341H784H5892H398H5439 33Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The children of Israel were oppressed, Along with the children of Judah; All who took them captive have held them fast; They have refused to let them go.H559H3068H6635H1121H3478H1121H3063H6231H3162H7617H2388H3985H7971 34Their Redeemer is strong; The LORD of hosts is His name. He will thoroughly plead their case, That He may give rest to the land, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.H1350H2389H3068H6635H8034H7378H7378H7379H7280H776H7264H3427H894 35"A sword is against the Chaldeans," says the LORD, "Against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against her princes and her wise men.H2719H3778H5002H3068H3427H894H8269H2450 36A sword is against the soothsayers, and they will be fools. A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.H2719H907H2973H2719H1368H2865 37A sword is against their horses, Against their chariots, And against all the mixed peoples who are in her midst; And they will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.H2719H5483H7393H6153H8432H802H2719H214H962 38A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is the land of carved images, And they are insane with their idols.H2721H4325H3001H776H6456H1984H367 39"Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals, And the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forever, Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.H6728H338H3427H1323H3284H3427H3427H5331H7931H1755H1755 40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the LORD, "So no one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it.H430H4114H5467H6017H7934H5002H3068H376H3427H1121H120H1481 41"Behold, a people shall come from the north, And a great nation and many kings Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.H5971H935H6828H1419H1471H7227H4428H5782H3411H776 42They shall hold the bow and the lance; They are cruel and shall not show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea; They shall ride on horses, Set in array, like a man for the battle, Against you, O daughter of Babylon.H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H894 43"The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands grow feeble; Anguish has taken hold of him, Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.H4428H894H8085H8088H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H3205 44"Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?"H5927H738H1347H3383H5116H386H7323H7280H7323H7323H977H6485H3259H7462H5975H6440 45Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon, And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.H8085H6098H3068H3289H894H4284H2803H776H3778H6810H6629H5498H5116H8074 46At the noise of the taking of Babylon The earth trembles, And the cry is heard among the nations.H6963H8610H894H776H7493H2201H8085H1471


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