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Jeremiah 50
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Babylon’s Capture

50This is the message that the LORD gave me about the city of Babylon and its people:H1697H3068H1696H894H776H3778H3027H3414H5030
2"Tell the news to the nations! Proclaim it! Give the signal and announce the news! Do not keep it a secret! Babylon has fallen! Her god Marduk has been shattered! Babylon's idols are put to shame; her disgusting images are crushed!H5046H1471H8085H5375H5251H8085H3582H559H894H3920H1078H3001H4781H2865H6091H3001H1544H2865
3"A nation from the north has come to attack Babylonia and will make it a desert. People and animals will run away, and no one will live there."H6828H5927H1471H7896H776H8047H3427H5110H1980H120H929

Israel’s Return

4The LORD says, "When that time comes, the people of both Israel and Judah will come weeping, looking for me, their God.H3117H6256H5002H3068H1121H3478H935H1121H3063H3162H1980H1058H3212H1245H3068H430
5They will ask the way to Zion and then go in that direction. They will make an eternal covenant with me and never break it.H7592H1870H6726H6440H2008H935H3867H3068H5769H1285H7911
6"My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.H5971H6H6629H7462H8582H7725H7726H2022H1980H2022H1389H7911H7258
7They are attacked by all who find them. Their enemies say, 'They sinned against the LORD, and so what we have done is not wrong. Their ancestors trusted in the LORD, and they themselves should have remained faithful to him.'H4672H398H6862H559H816H2398H3068H5116H6664H3068H4723H1
8"People of Israel, run away from Babylonia! Leave the country! Be the first to leave!H5110H8432H894H3318H3318H776H3778H6260H6440H6629
9I am going to stir up a group of strong nations in the north and make them attack Babylonia. They will line up in battle against the country and conquer it. They are skillful hunters, shooting arrows that never miss the mark.H5782H5927H894H6951H1419H1471H6828H776H6186H3920H2671H1368H7919H7921H7725H7387
10Babylonia will be looted, and those who loot it will take everything they want. I, the LORD, have spoken."H3778H7998H7997H7646H5002H3068

Babylon’s Fall

11The LORD says, "People of Babylonia, you plundered my nation. You are happy and glad, going about like a cow threshing grain or like a neighing horse,H8055H5937H8154H5159H6335H5697H1877H1758H6670H47
12but your own great city will be humiliated and disgraced. Babylonia will be the least important nation of all; it will become a dry and waterless desert.H517H3966H954H3205H2659H319H1471H4057H6723H6160
13Because of my anger no one will live in Babylon; it will be left in ruins, and all who pass by will be shocked and amazed.H7110H3068H3427H8077H5674H894H8074H8319H4347
14"Archers, line up for battle against Babylon and surround it. Shoot all your arrows at Babylon, because it has sinned against me, the LORD.H6186H894H5439H1869H7198H3034H2550H2671H2398H3068
15Raise the war cry all around the city! Now Babylon has surrendered. Its walls have been broken through and torn down. I am taking my revenge on the Babylonians. So take your revenge on them, and treat them as they have treated others.H7321H5439H5414H3027H803H5307H2346H2040H5360H3068H5358H6213H6213
16Do not let seeds be planted in that country nor let a harvest be gathered. Every foreigner living there will be afraid of the attacking army and will go back home."H3772H2232H894H8610H4038H6256H7105H6440H3238H2719H6437H376H5971H5127H376H776

Israel’s Return

17The LORD says, "The people of Israel are like sheep, chased and scattered by lions. First, they were attacked by the emperor of Assyria, and then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia gnawed on their bones.H3478H6340H7716H738H5080H7223H4428H804H398H314H5019H4428H894H6105
18Because of this, I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, will punish King Nebuchadnezzar and his country, just as I punished the emperor of Assyria.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H6485H4428H894H776H6485H4428H804
19I will restore the people of Israel to their land. They will eat the food that grows on Mount Carmel and in the region of Bashan, and they will eat all they want of the crops that grow in the territories of Ephraim and Gilead.H7725H3478H7725H5116H7462H3760H1316H5315H7646H2022H669H1568
20When that time comes, no sin will be found in Israel and no wickedness in Judah, because I will forgive those people whose lives I have spared. I, the LORD, have spoken."H3117H6256H5002H3068H5771H3478H1245H2403H3063H4672H5545H7604

God’s Judgment on Babylonia

21The LORD says, "Attack the people of Merathaim and of Pekod. Kill and destroy them. Do everything I command you. I, the LORD, have spoken.H5927H776H4850H3427H6489H2717H2763H310H5002H3068H6213H6680
22The noise of battle is heard in the land, and there is great destruction.H6963H4421H776H1419H7667
23Babylonia hammered the whole world to pieces, and now that hammer is shattered! All the nations are shocked at what has happened to that country.H6360H776H1438H7665H894H8047H1471
24Babylonia, you fought against me, and you have been caught in the trap I set for you, even though you did not know it.H3369H3920H894H3045H4672H8610H1624H3068
25I have opened the place where my weapons are stored, and in my anger I have taken them out, because I, the Sovereign LORD Almighty, have work to do in Babylonia.H3068H6605H214H3318H3627H2195H4399H136H3069H6635H776H3778
26Attack it from every side and break open the places where its grain is stored! Pile up the loot like piles of grain! Destroy the country! Leave nothing at all!H935H7093H6605H3965H5549H6194H2763H7611
27Kill all their soldiers! Slaughter them! The people of Babylonia are doomed! The time has come for them to be punished!"H2717H6499H3381H2874H1945H3117H935H6256H6486
28(Refugees escape from Babylonia and come to Jerusalem, and they tell how the LORD our God took revenge for what the Babylonians had done to his Temple.)H6963H5127H6405H776H894H5046H6726H5360H3068H430H5360H1964
29"Tell the archers to attack Babylon. Send out everyone who knows how to use the bow and arrow. Surround the city and don't let anyone escape. Pay it back for all it has done, and treat it as it has treated others, because it acted with pride against me, the Holy One of Israel.H8085H7228H894H1869H7198H2583H5439H6413H7999H6467H6213H6213H2102H3068H6918H3478
30So its young men will be killed in the city streets, and all its soldiers will be destroyed on that day. I, the LORD, have spoken.H970H5307H7339H582H4421H1826H3117H5002H3068
31"Babylonia, you are filled with pride, so I, the Sovereign LORD Almighty, am against you! The time has come for me to punish you.H2087H5002H136H3069H6635H3117H935H6256H6485
32Your proud nation will stumble and fall, and no one will help you up. I will set your cities on fire, and everything around will be destroyed."H2087H3782H5307H6965H3341H784H5892H398H5439
33The LORD Almighty says, "The people of Israel and of Judah are oppressed. All who captured them are guarding them closely and will not let them go.H559H3068H6635H1121H3478H1121H3063H6231H3162H7617H2388H3985H7971
34But the one who will rescue them is strong - his name is the LORD Almighty. He himself will take up their cause and will bring peace to the earth, but trouble to the people of Babylonia."H1350H2389H3068H6635H8034H7378H7378H7379H7280H776H7264H3427H894
35The LORD says, "Death to Babylonia! Death to its people, to its rulers, to its people of wisdom.H2719H3778H5002H3068H3427H894H8269H2450
36Death to its lying prophets - what fools they are! Death to its soldiers - how terrified they are!H2719H907H2973H2719H1368H2865
37Destroy its horses and chariots! Death to its hired soldiers - how weak they are! Destroy its treasures; plunder and loot.H2719H5483H7393H6153H8432H802H2719H214H962
38Bring a drought on its land and dry up its rivers. Babylonia is a land of terrifying idols that have made fools of the people.H2721H4325H3001H776H6456H1984H367
39"And so Babylon will be haunted by demons and evil spirits, and by unclean birds. Never again will people live there, not for all time to come.H6728H338H3427H1323H3284H3427H3427H5331H7931H1755H1755
40The same thing will happen to Babylon that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when I destroyed them and the nearby towns. No one will ever live there again. I, the LORD, have spoken.H430H4114H5467H6017H7934H5002H3068H376H3427H1121H120H1481
41"People are coming from a country in the north, a mighty nation far away; many kings are preparing for war.H5971H935H6828H1419H1471H7227H4428H5782H3411H776
42They have taken their bows and swords; they are cruel and merciless. They sound like the roaring sea, as they ride their horses. They are ready for battle against Babylonia.H2388H7198H3591H394H7355H6963H1993H3220H7392H5483H6186H376H4421H1323H894
43The king of Babylonia hears the news, and his hands hang limp. He is seized by anguish, by pain like a woman in labor.H4428H894H8085H8088H3027H7503H6869H2388H2427H3205
44"Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan up to the green pasture land, I, the LORD, will come and make the Babylonians run away suddenly from their city. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?H5927H738H1347H3383H5116H386H7323H7280H7323H7323H977H6485H3259H7462H5975H6440
45So listen to the plan that I have made against the city of Babylon and to what I intend to do to its people. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.H8085H6098H3068H3289H894H4284H2803H776H3778H6810H6629H5498H5116H8074
46When Babylon falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake, and the cries of alarm will be heard by the other nations."H6963H8610H894H776H7493H2201H8085H1471


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