JER-50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and]
against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
JER-50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel
is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are
confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
JER-50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against
her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell
therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and
beast.
JER-50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the
children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah
together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD
their God.
JER-50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces
thitherward, [saying], Come, and let us join ourselves to the
LORD in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.
JER-50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have
caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the
mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have
forgotten their restingplace.
JER-50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their
adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned
against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the
hope of their fathers.
JER-50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of
the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the
flocks.
JER-50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against
Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and
they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she
shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert
man; none shall return in vain.
JER-50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall
be satisfied, saith the LORD.
JER-50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye
destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the
heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
JER-50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare
you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations
[shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
JER-50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be
inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth
by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
JER-50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about:
all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she
hath sinned against the LORD.
JER-50:15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand:
her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it
[is] the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she
hath done, do unto her.
JER-50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth
the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing
sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall
flee every one to his own land.
JER-50:17 Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven
[him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and
last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
JER-50:18 Therefore thus saith 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.
JER-50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and
he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be
satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
JER-50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the
iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and [there shall be]
none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I
will pardon them whom I reserve.
JER-50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it,
and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy
after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have
commanded thee.
JER-50:22 A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great
destruction.
JER-50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and
broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
JER-50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken,
O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also
caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.
JER-50:25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought
forth the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of
the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
JER-50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her
storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let
nothing of her be left.
JER-50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the
slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of
their visitation.
JER-50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land
of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,
the vengeance of his temple.
JER-50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that
bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof
escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all
that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against
the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
JER-50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and
all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
JER-50:31 Behold, I [am] against thee, [O thou] most proud,
saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time
[that] I will visit thee.
JER-50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none
shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and
it shall devour all round about him.
JER-50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel
and the children of Judah [were] oppressed together: and all
that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them
go.
JER-50:34 Their Redeemer [is] strong; the LORD of hosts [is] his
name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give
rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
JER-50:35 A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and
upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon
her wise [men].
JER-50:36 A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a
sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
JER-50:37 A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their
chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the
midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon
her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
JER-50:38 A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be
dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are
mad upon [their] idols.
JER-50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild
beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall
dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever;
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
JER-50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
[cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there,
neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
JER-50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a
great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts
of the earth.
JER-50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are]
cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the
sea, and they shall ride upon horses, [every one] put in array,
like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
JER-50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and
his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs as
of a woman in travail.
JER-50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling
of Jordan unto the habitation 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? and who will
appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand
before me?
JER-50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he
hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath
purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of
the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their]
habitation desolate with them.
JER-50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is
moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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