Jeremiah:50

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* The word that the Lord spake , concerning Babel , and cocerning the land of the Caldeans by the ministerie of Ieremiah the Prophet . * Declare ye among the nations , and proclaim , and set up a standard ; proclaim , [and ] conceal not : say , (note :)After God had used the Babylonian 's service to punish other nations , this shows that their turn will come to be punished .(:note ) Babylon is taken , Bel is confounded , These were two of their chief idols . Merodach is broken in pieces ; her idols are confounded , her images are broken in pieces . * For out of the north (note :)That is , the Medes and the Persians .(:note ) there cometh a nation against her , which shall make her land desolate , and none shall dwell in it : they shall remove , they shall depart , both man and beast . * In those days , and in that time , saith the LORD , the children of Israel shall (note :)When Cyrus will take Babel .(:note ) come , they and the children of Judah together , going and Read ( Jer_31:9 ). weeping : they shall go , and seek the LORD their God . * They shal aske the way to Zion , with their faces thitherward , saying , Come , and let vs cleaue to the Lorde in a perpetuall couenant that shall not be forgotten . * My people have been lost sheep : their (note :)Their governors and ministers by their examples have provoked them to idolatry .(:note ) shepherds have caused them to go astray , they have turned them away [on ] the mountains : they have gone from They have committed idolatry in every place . mountain to hill , they have forgotten their restingplace . * All that found them have devoured them : and their adversaries said , We offend not , because they have sinned against the LORD , (note :)For the Lord dwelt among them in his temple and would have maintained them by his justice against their enemies .(:note ) the habitation of justice , even the LORD , the hope of their fathers . * * For loe , I will raise , and cause to come vp against Babel a multitude of mightie natios from the North countrey , and they shall set themselues in aray against her , whereby shee shall be taken : their arrowes shall be as of a strong man , which is expert , for none shall returne in vaine . * And Chaldea shall be a prey : all that spoil her (note :)Shall be made rich by it .(:note ) shall be satisfied , saith the LORD . * Because ye were glad , because ye rejoiced , O ye destroyers of my heritage , because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass , (note :)For joy of the victory that you had against my people .(:note ) and bellow as bulls ; * Therefore your mother shall bee sore confounded , and she that bare you , shall be ashamed : beholde , the vttermost of the nations shalbe a desert , a drie land , and a wildernes . * 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 , (note :)In sign of contempt and disdain .(:note ) and hiss at all her plagues . * * Crie against her round about : she hath giuen her hand : her foundations are fallen , and her walles are destroyed : for it is the vengeance of the Lord : take vengeance vpon her : as she hath done , doe vnto her . * Cut off the (note :)Destroy her so that no one is left to work the ground or to take the fruit of it .(:note ) 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 . * Israel [is ] a scattered sheep ; the lions have driven [him ] away : first the king of (note :)Meaning Tiglath-pilesar who carried away the ten tribes .(:note ) Assyria hath devoured him ; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his He carried away the rest , that is Judah and Benjamin . bones . * Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel , Behold , I wil visit ye King of Babel , and his land , as I haue visited the King of Asshur . * And I will bring Israel againe to his habitation : hee shall feede on Carmel and Bashan , and his soule shall be satisfied vpon the mount Ephraim and Gilead . * In those daies , and at that time , sayeth the Lorde , the iniquitie of Israel shall be sought for , and there shall be none : and the sinnes of Iudah , and they shall not be founde : for I will be mercifull vnto them , whome I reserue . * Go up against the land of (note :)That is , Babylon : thus the Lord raised up Cyrus .(:note ) 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 . * A crie of battell is in the land , and of great destruction . * How is the (note :)Nebuchadnezzar , who had smitten down all the princes and people of the world .(:note ) hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken ! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations ! * I haue snared thee , and thou art taken , O Babel , and thou wast not aware : thou art found , and also caught , because thou hast striuen against the Lorde . * The Lord hath opened his treasure , &amp ; hath brought foorth the weapons of his wrath : for this is the woorke of the Lorde God of hostes in the lande of the Caldeans . * Come against her from the vtmost border : open her store houses : treade on her as on sheaues , and destroy her vtterly : let nothing of her be left . * Slay all her (note :)Her princes and mighty men .(:note ) bulls ; let them go down to the slaughter : woe to them ! for their day is come , the time of their judgment . * The voice of them that (note :)Of the Jews who would be delivered by Cyrus .(:note ) flee and escape from the land of Babylon , to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God , the vengeance of his temple . * Call vp the archers against Babel : al ye that bend the bow , besiege it rounde about : let none thereof escape : recompence her according to her worke , &amp ; according to all that she hath done , doe vnto her : for she hath bene proud against the Lord , euen against the holy one of Israel . * Therefore shall her yong men fall in the streetes , and al her men of warre shalbe destroied in that day , sayeth the Lord . * Beholde , I come vnto thee , O proude man , saith the Lord God of hostes : for thy day is come , euen the time that I will visite thee . * And the proude shall stumble and fall , and none shall raise him vp : and I will kindle a fire in his cities , &amp ; it shall deuoure all round about him . * Thus saieth the Lord of hosts , The children of Israel , and the children of Iudah were oppressed together : and all that tooke them captiues , held them , and would not let them goe . * 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 , (note :)He shows that when God executes his judgments against his enemies , that his Church will then have rest .(:note ) and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon . * A sworde is vpon the Caldeans , sayeth the Lord , and vpon the inhabitants of Babel , and vpon her princes , and vpon her wise men . * A sworde is vpon the soothsaiers , and they shall dote : a sword is vpon her strong men , &amp ; they shalbe afraide . * A sworde is vpon their horses &amp ; vpon their charets , and vpon all the multitude that are in the middes of her , and they shall be like women : a sworde is vpon her treasures , and they shall be spoyled . * A (note :)For Cyrus cut the river Euphrates and divided the course of it into many streams , so that it might be passed over as though there had been no water : which he did by the counsel of two of Belshazzar 's captains , who conspired against their king , because he had gelded one of them in spite and slain the son of the other .(:note ) drought [is ] upon her waters ; and they shall be dried up : for it [is ] the land of graven images , and they are mad over [their ] idols . * Therefore the (note :)Read ( Isa_13:21 ).(:note ) wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the isles shall dwell [there ], and the owls shall dwell in it : and it shall be no more inhabited for ever ; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation . * As God destroied Sodom and Gomorah with the places thereof neere about , sayeth the Lord : so shal no man dwell theere , neither shal the sonne of man remaine therein . * Behold , a people shall come from the north , and a great nation , and many kings shall be raised up from (note :)Meaning , that the Persians would gather their army from many nations .(:note ) the ends of the earth . * They shall holde the bowe and the buckeler : they are cruell and vnmercifull : their voyce shall roare like the sea , and they shall ride vpon horses , and be put in aray like men to the battell against thee , O daughter of Babel . * The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them , and his hands (note :)Which is meant of Belshazzar , ( Dan_5:6 ).(:note ) became feeble : anguish took hold of him , [and ] pangs as of a woman in travail . * Behold , he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to 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 (note :){{See Jer_49:19 }}(:note ) shepherd that will stand before me ? * Therefore heare the counsell of the Lorde that hee hath deuised against Babel , and his purpose that hee hath conceiued against the lande of the Caldeans : surely the least of the flocke shall drawe them out : surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them . * At the noyse of the winning of Babel the earth is moued , and the crye is heard among the nations .

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