The Book of Jeremiah (WEB)
50: 1The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by
Jeremiah the prophet. 50:2Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up a standard;
publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her
images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed. 50:3For out of the north there comes up a nation
against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they
are gone, both man and animal. 50:4In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of
Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and
shall seek Yahweh their God. 50:5They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward
it, saying, Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be
forgotten. 50:6My people have 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 resting-place. 50:7All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries
said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness,
even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers. 50:8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the
land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks. 50:9For, behold, I will stir up and
cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they
shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of
an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain. 50:10Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her
shall be satisfied, says Yahweh. 50:11Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder
my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong
horses; 50:12your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she who bore you shall be confounded:
behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 50:13Because of
the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who
goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 50:14Set yourselves in array against
Babylon round about, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned
against Yahweh. 50:15Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are
fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as
she has done, do to her. 50:16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the
time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they
shall flee everyone to his own land. 50:17Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away:
first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has
broken his bones. 50:18Therefore thus says Yahweh 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. 50:19I will bring
Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied
on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. 50:20In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, 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 leave as a remnant. 50:21Go up against the land of Merathaim,
even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says
Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you. 50:22A sound of battle is in the land,
and of great destruction. 50:23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is
Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 50:24I have laid a snare for you, and you are also
taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven
against Yahweh. 50:25Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his
indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
50:26Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and
destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left. 50:27Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the
slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. 50:28The voice of those
who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our
God, the vengeance of his temple. 50:29Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who
bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to
her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh,
against the Holy One of Israel. 50:30Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her
men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh. 50:31Behold, I am against you, you
proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
50:32The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his
cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him. 50:33Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The
children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive
hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. 50:34Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Hosts is his
name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the
inhabitants of Babylon. 50:35A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of
Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men. 50:36A sword is on the boasters, and they shall
become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. 50:37A sword is on their
horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they
shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed. 50:38A drought is on
her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over
idols. 50:39Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the
ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in
from generation to generation. 50:40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn
therein. 50:41Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be
stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 50:42They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel,
and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as
a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. 50:43The king of Babylon has heard the news
of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in
travail. 50:44Behold, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the
strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him
will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the
shepherd who can stand before me? 50:45Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely
they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation
desolate over them. 50:46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is
heard among the nations.
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