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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 50
50:1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land
of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
50:2 Declare all of you 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.
50:3 For out of the north there comes 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.
50:4 In those days, and in that time, says 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.
50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces in that direction,
saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant
that shall not be forgotten.
50:6 My people has 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.
50:7 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.
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.
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.
50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied,
says the LORD.
50:11 Because all of you were glad, because all of you rejoiced, O
all of you destroyers of mine heritage, because all of you are grown fat
as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
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.
50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but
it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goes by Babylon shall be astonished,
and hiss at all her plagues.
50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all you
that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against
the LORD.
50:15 Shout against her round about: she has 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 has done, do unto her.
50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles 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.
50:17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away:
first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon has broken his bones.
50:18 Therefore 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.
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.
50:20 In those days, and in that time, says 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.
50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against
the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, says the
LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
50:24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon,
and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have
striven against the LORD.
50:25 The LORD has opened his armoury, and has brought forth the weapons
of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the
land of the Chaldeans.
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.
50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe
unto them! for their day has come, the time of their visitation.
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.
50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend
the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense
her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto
her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her
men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
50:31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the Lord GOD
of hosts: for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
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.
50:33 Thus says 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.
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 trouble
the inhabitants of Babylon.
50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants
of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
50:36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall be foolish: a sword
is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
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.
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.
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.
50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any
son of man dwell therein.
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.
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
you, O daughter of Babylon.
50:43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands
waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
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?
50:45 Therefore hear all of you the counsel of the LORD, that he has
taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has 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.
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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