Jeremiah 50

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1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet:
2 Declare and divulged among the nations, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken, ashamed of his idols, idols of his broken'.
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein, from man to beast, and all will move to leave.
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, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion, turning to face him, [to be] [say]: 'Go and join the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. "
6 My people hath been lost sheep; their shepherds have misled them from the path, driven them away on the mountains; We wandered they have forgotten their resting mountain to hill.
7 All who found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said: 'We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. "
8 Flee 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.

9 For, behold, I will raise and cause to Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country, and in array against him, and he will be taken; arrows at them, like a skilled warrior who does not return in vain.
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil; spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
eleven For you have fun, you triumph, plunderers of my heritage; They jumped for joy as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls.
12 The big shame to your mother, who gave birth to you blush; Now the future of the nations - a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it will be empty; Just passing by Babylon astonished, and shall hiss, looking at all the plagues thereof.
14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about; all that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.
15 Shout against her on every side; He gave his hand; fallen, collapsed walls, because it is - the wages of the Lord; he pleads the cause; as it did, so do ye to them.
16 Cut off in Babylon [and] sowing and the sickle in the time of harvest; fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and shall flee every one to his own land.
17 Israel - a scattered sheep; driven away by lions [it]; before it devoured the king of Assyria, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as the king of Assyria.
19 And Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20 In those days and in that time, saith the Lord, I will seek the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, and will not find them; For I will forgive those who leave [alive].

21 Go to her outrageous on the ground, and punish the inhabitants thereof; waste and utterly destroy all behind them, saith the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.
22 The noise of battle in the land, and great destruction!
23 How broken and crushed by the hammer of the whole earth! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
24 I have laid a snare for you and you will be caught, Babylon, not aware: thou art found and caught, because you rebelled against the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his storehouse, and took [thereof] vessels of his anger, because the Lord God of hosts has a case to the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from all edges, its storehouses, trample her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter; woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
28 [Heard] 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.
29 Summon archers against Babylon; all that bend the bow, camp around it so no one could escape from it; to give him according to his works; as it did, so deal with him, for he magnified himself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
thirty For the young men shall fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
31 Here, I - you, proud, saith the Lord God of hosts; for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation.
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 around him.

33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, oppressed the sons of Israel and the children of Judah, and all them captives, hold them tightly, and do not want to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is his name; He will vigorously plead their cause, to appease the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and her wise men;
36 A sword is upon the magicians, and they are mad; sword upon her warriors, and they orobeyut;
37 A sword against her horses and chariots, and upon all the foreign troops in her midst, and they will be like women; the sword is upon her treasures, and they shall become as women;
38 A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be robbed; for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
39 Shall dwell there with jackals steppe animals, and dwell therein for ostriches, and will not be inhabited for ever and inhabited by many generations.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith the LORD, [and] then no man will live, and the son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth;
42 hold on bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea; they ride on horses, lined up as one man for war against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon heard news of them, and his hands dropped; sorrow seized him, pangs as a woman in travail.
44 Here, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the strong habitation; but I will make them suddenly run away from it, and who elected to entrust him. For who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? And what shepherd can stand before me?
45 Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has on the land of the Chaldeans, Truly, the smallest of the flock they entail; Verily, he shall spoil their houses with them.
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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