Jeremiah:50

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ylt @Jeremiah:50:1 @The word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning Babylon , concerning the land of the Chaldeans , by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet : ylt @Jeremiah:50:2 @'Declare ye among nations , and sound , And lift up an ensign , sound , do not hide , Say ye : Captured hath been Babylon , Put to shame hath been Bel , Broken hath been Merodach , Put to shame have been her grievous things , Broken have been her idols . ylt @Jeremiah:50:3 @For come up against her hath a nation from the north , It maketh her land become a desolation , And there is not an inhabitant in it . From man even unto beast , They have moved , they have gone . ylt @Jeremiah:50:4 @In those days , and at that time , An affirmation of Jehovah , Come in do sons of Israel , They and sons of Judah together , Going on and weeping they go , And Jehovah their God they seek . ylt @Jeremiah:50:5 @[To ] Zion they ask the way , Thitherward [are ] their faces : Come in , and we are joined unto Jehovah , A covenant age-during -- not forgotten . ylt @Jeremiah:50:6 @A perishing flock hath My people been , Their shepherds have caused them to err , [To ] the mountains causing them to go back , From mountain unto hill they have gone , They have forgotten their crouching-place . ylt @Jeremiah:50:7 @All finding them have devoured them , And their adversaries have said : We are not guilty , Because that they sinned against Jehovah , The habitation of righteousness , And the hope of their fathers -- Jehovah . ylt @Jeremiah:50:8 @Move ye from the midst of Babylon , And from the land of the Chaldeans go out . And be as he-goats before a flock . ylt @Jeremiah:50:9 @For , lo , I am stirring up , And am causing to come up against Babylon , An assembly of great nations from a land of the north , And they have set in array against her , From thence she is captured , Its arrow -- as a skilful hero -- returneth not empty , ylt @Jeremiah:50:10 @And Chaldea hath been for a spoil , All her spoilers are satisfied , An affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Jeremiah:50:11 @Because thou rejoicest , because thou exultest , O spoilers of Mine inheritance , Because thou increasest as a heifer [at ] the tender grass , And dost cry aloud as bulls , ylt @Jeremiah:50:12 @Ashamed hath been your mother greatly , Confounded hath she been that bare you , Lo , the hindermost of nations [is ] a wilderness , A dry land , and a desert . ylt @Jeremiah:50:13 @Because of the wrath of Jehovah it is not inhabited , And it hath been a desolation -- all of it . Every passer by at Babylon is astonished , And doth hiss because of all her plagues . ylt @Jeremiah:50:14 @Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about , All ye treading a bow , Shoot at her , have no pity on the arrow , For against Jehovah she hath sinned . ylt @Jeremiah:50:15 @Shout against her round about , She hath given forth her hand , Fallen have her foundations , Thrown down have been her walls , For it [is ] the vengeance of Jehovah , Be avenged of her , as she did -- do ye to her . ylt @Jeremiah:50:16 @Cut off the sower from Babylon , And him handling the sickle in the time of harvest , Because of the oppressing sword , Each unto his people -- they turn , And each to his land -- they flee . ylt @Jeremiah:50:17 @A scattered sheep is Israel , lions have driven away , At first , devour him did the king of Asshur , And now , at last , broken his bone Hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon . ylt @Jeremiah:50:18 @Therefore thus said Jehovah of Hosts , God of Israel : Lo , I am seeing after the king of Babylon , And after his land , As I have seen after the king of Asshur ; ylt @Jeremiah:50:19 @And I have brought back Israel unto his habitation , And he hath fed on Carmel , and on Bashan . And in mount Ephraim , and on Gilead is his soul satisfied . ylt @Jeremiah:50:20 @In those days , and at that time , An affirmation of Jehovah , Sought is the iniquity of Israel , and it is not , And the sin of Judah , and it is not found , For I am propitious to those whom I leave ! ylt @Jeremiah:50:21 @Against the land of Merathaim : Go up against it , and unto the inhabitants of Pekod , Waste and devote their posterity , An affirmation of Jehovah , And do according to all that I have commanded thee . ylt @Jeremiah:50:22 @A noise of battle [is ] in the land , and of great destruction . ylt @Jeremiah:50:23 @How hath it been cut and broken , The hammer of the whole earth ! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations ! ylt @Jeremiah:50:24 @I have laid a snare for thee , And also -- thou art captured , O Babylon , And thou -- thou hast known , Thou hast been found , and also art caught , For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up . ylt @Jeremiah:50:25 @Jehovah hath opened His treasury , And He bringeth out the weapons of His indignation , For a work [is ] to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts , In the land of the Chaldeans . ylt @Jeremiah:50:26 @Come ye in to her from the extremity , Open ye her storehouses , Raise her up as heaps , and devote her , Let her have no remnant . ylt @Jeremiah:50:27 @Slay all her kine , they go down to slaughter , Wo [is ] on them , for come hath their day , The time of their inspection . ylt @Jeremiah:50:28 @A voice of fugitives and escaped ones [Is ] from the land of Babylon , To declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God , The vengeance of His temple . ylt @Jeremiah:50:29 @Summon unto Babylon archers , all treading the bow , Encamp against her round about , Let [her ] have no escape ; Recompense to her according to her work , According to all that she did -- do to her , For unto Jehovah she hath been proud , Unto the Holy One of Israel . ylt @Jeremiah:50:30 @Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places , And all her men of war are cut off in that day , An affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Jeremiah:50:31 @Lo , I [am ] against thee , O pride , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts , For thy day hath come , the time of thy inspection . ylt @Jeremiah:50:32 @And stumbled hath pride , And he hath fallen , and hath no raiser up , And I have kindled a fire in his cities , And it hath devoured all round about him . ylt @Jeremiah:50:33 @Thus said Jehovah of Hosts : Oppressed are the sons of Israel , And the sons of Judah together , And all their captors have kept hold on them , They have refused to send them away . ylt @Jeremiah:50:34 @Their Redeemer [is ] strong , Jehovah of Hosts [is ] His name , He doth thoroughly plead their cause , So as to cause the land to rest , And He hath given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon . ylt @Jeremiah:50:35 @A sword [is ] for the Chaldeans , An affirmation of Jehovah , And it [is ] on the inhabitants of Babylon , And on her heads , and on her wise men ; ylt @Jeremiah:50:36 @A sword [is ] on the princes , And they have become foolish ; A sword [is ] on her mighty ones , And they have been broken down ; ylt @Jeremiah:50:37 @A sword [is ] on his horses and on his chariot , And on all the rabble who [are ] in her midst , And they have become women ; A sword [is ] on her treasuries , And they have been spoiled ; ylt @Jeremiah:50:38 @A sword [is ] on her waters , and they have been dried up , For it [is ] a land of graven images , And in idols they do boast themselves . ylt @Jeremiah:50:39 @Therefore dwell do Ziim with Iim , Yea , dwelt in her have daughters of the ostrich , And it is not inhabited any more for ever , Nor dwelt in unto all generations . ylt @Jeremiah:50:40 @As overthrown by God with Sodom , And with Gomorrah , and with its neighbours , An affirmation of Jehovah , none doth dwell there , Nor sojourn in her doth a son of man . ylt @Jeremiah:50:41 @Lo , a people hath come from the north , Even a great nation , And many kings are stirred up from the sides of the earth . ylt @Jeremiah:50:42 @Bow and halbert they seize , Cruel [are ] they , and they have no mercy , Their voice as a sea soundeth , and on horses they ride , Set in array as a man for battle , Against thee , O daughter of Babylon . ylt @Jeremiah:50:43 @Heard hath the king of Babylon their report , And feeble have been his hands , Distress hath seized him ; pain as a travailing woman . ylt @Jeremiah:50:44 @Lo , as a lion he cometh up , Because of the rising of the Jordan , Unto the enduring habitation , But I cause to rest , I cause them to run from off her . And who is chosen ? on her I lay a charge , For who [is ] like Me ? And who doth convene Me ? And who [is ] this shepherd who standeth before Me ? ylt @Jeremiah:50:45 @Therefore , hear ye the counsel of Jehovah , That He counselled concerning Babylon , And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the land of the Chaldeans ; Drag them out do not little ones of the flock , Doth He not make desolate over them the habitation ? ylt @Jeremiah:50:46 @From the voice : Captured was Babylon , Hath the earth been shaken , And a cry among nations hath been heard !

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