Jeremiah:50:1-51
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The word that Jehovah spoke against Babylon ,
against the land of the Chaldeans by the prophet :
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Declare among the nations ,
and make them hear ,
and lift up a banner .
Make them hear ,
do not hide it ;
say ,
Babylon is captured ,
Bel is put to shame ,
Merodach is broken in pieces ,
her images are put to shame ,
her idols are broken in pieces .
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For a nation comes up against her from the north ,
which shall make her land a desert .
Yea ,
no one shall dwell in it .
They shall flee ,
they shall depart ,
both man and animal .
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In these days ,
and at that time ,
the sons of Israel shall come ,
declares Jehovah ,
they and the sons of Judah together ,
going and weeping ;
they shall go and seek Jehovah their God .
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They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces pointing there ,
saying ,
Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant never to be forgotten .
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My people are lost sheep ,
their shepherds have caused them to go astray ;
they turned them away on the mountains ,
they have gone from mountain to hill ;
they have forgotten their resting place .
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All who have found them have devoured them .
And their enemies said ,
We are not guilty ,
because they have sinned against Jehovah ,
the habitation of righteousness ,
and Jehovah ,
their fathers '
hope .
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Flee from the midst of Babylon ,
and go out of the land of the Chaldeans ,
and be as the he goats before the flocks .
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For ,
behold ,
I am stirring up and bringing up a company of great nations from a northern land against Babylon .
And they shall array themselves against her .
She shall be captured there ;
their arrows shall be as those of a mighty ,
skillful man ;
they shall not return empty .
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And Chaldea shall be a prize ;
all who plunder her shall be satisfied ,
declares Jehovah .
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Because you rejoice ,
because you exult ,
O destroyers of My inheritance ,
because you are fat like the heifer in grass ,
and neigh like strong ones ,
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your mother shall be deeply ashamed ,
she who bore you shall turn pale .
Behold ,
the last of the nations shall be a wilderness ,
a dry land ,
and a desert .
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Because of the wrath of Jehovah ,
it shall not be inhabited ,
but all of it shall be a waste .
Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be amazed and hiss at all her plagues .
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Put yourselves in order against Babylon all around .
All you who tread a bow ,
shoot at her .
Do not spare arrows ,
for she has sinned against Jehovah .
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Shout against her all around .
She has given her hand ,
her foundations have fallen ,
her walls have been thrown down ,
for it is Jehovah '
s vengeance .
Take vengeance on her .
As she has done ,
do to her .
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Cut off the sower from Babylon ,
and the one handling the sickle in the time of harvest .
They shall turn from a sword of the oppressor ,
each one to his people .
And they shall flee ,
each one to his own land .
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Israel is a scattered sheep ,
driven away by lions .
First ,
the king of Assyria devoured him .
And last ,
this king Nebu-chadnezzar of Babylon crunched him .
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So Jehovah of hosts ,
the God of Israel ,
says this :
Behold ,
I am punishing the king of Babylon and his land as I have punished the king of Assyria .
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And I will again bring Israel to his home ,
and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan ,
and his soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead .
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In those days ,
and at that time ,
states Jehovah ,
the iniquity of Israel shall not be sought for ,
and it is not ;
and the sins of Judah ,
and they will not be found ;
for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant .
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Go up against the land of Merathaim ,
against it and against the dwellers of Pekod .
Waste and destroy after them ,
says Jehovah ,
and do according to all that I have commanded you .
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A sound of battle is in the land and of great ruin .
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How the hammer of all the earth is cut off and broken !
How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations !
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I have laid a trap for you ,
and you also are captured ,
Babylon ,
and you did not know .
You were found and also caught ,
because you stirred up yourself against Jehovah .
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Jehovah has opened His armory and has brought out the weapons of His fury .
For this is a work of Jehovah ,
God of hosts ,
in the land of the Chaldeans .
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Come against her from the end ,
open her granaries ,
pile her up as heaps and utterly destroy her .
Do not let a remnant be left .
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Put the sword to all her bulls ,
let them go down to the slaughter .
Woe to them !
For their day has come ,
the time of their punishment .
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The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God ,
the vengeance of His temple .
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Make the archers hear against Babylon .
All you who tread a bow camp against it all around .
Let none of them escape .
Repay her according to her work ,
according to all that she has done ,
do to her .
For she has been proud against Jehovah ,
against the Holy One of Israel .
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So her young men shall fall in the streets ,
and all her men of war shall be silenced in that day ,
declares Jehovah .
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Behold ,
I am against you ,
O proud one ,
says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts ,
for your day has come ,
the time I will punish you .
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And the proud one shall stumble and fall ,
and none shall raise him up .
And I will kindle a fire in his cities ,
and it shall burn up everything all around him .
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So says Jehovah of hosts ,
The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah are oppressed together .
Yea ,
all who captured them held them fast ,
they refused to let them go .
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Their Redeemer is strong ,
Jehovah of Hosts is His name .
He shall surely plead their cause ,
so that He may give rest to the land ,
and make to tremble the dwellers of Babylon .
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A sword is on the Chaldeans ,
states Jehovah ,
and on the dwellers of Babylon ,
and on her rulers ,
and on her wise men .
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A sword is on the liars ,
and they shall become fools ;
a sword is on her mighty men ,
and they shall be broken .
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A sword is on his horses and his chariots ,
and to all the mixed people in her midst .
And they shall become as women .
A sword is to her treasuries ,
and they shall be robbed .
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A drought is on her waters ,
and they shall be dried up .
For it is the land of idols ,
and they boast themselves in idols .
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So the beasts of the desert shall dwell there with jackals .
And the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her again .
And it shall not again have anyone in it forever ;
it shall not be lived in until generation and generation .
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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors ,
states Jehovah ,
so no man shall live there ,
nor shall a son of man stay in it .
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Behold ,
a people shall come from the north ,
and a great nation ,
and many kings shall be stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth .
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They lay hold of a bow and a javelin ,
they shall be cruel and will show no mercy .
Their voice shall roar like the sea ,
and arrayed like a man for the battle ,
they shall ride on horses against you ,
O daughter of Babylon .
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The king of Babylon has heard their report ,
and his hands became feeble ;
anguish seized him ,
pangs like those of a woman in labor .
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Behold ,
he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the home of the strong .
But I will make them suddenly run away from it .
And who is a chosen one I will appoint over it ?
For who is like Me ?
And who will summon Me ?
And who is a shepherd who will stand before Me ?
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So hear the counsel of Jehovah that He has planned against Babylon ,
and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans :
Surely they shall drag them ,
the least of the flock .
Surely He will make their dwelling desolate over them .
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At the sound of Babylon '
s capture ,
the earth shall tremble ,
and a cry is heard among the nations .
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