Jeremiah:50:1-51
rsv@Jeremiah:50:1 @ The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chalde'ans, by Jeremiah the prophet:
rsv@Jeremiah:50:2 @ "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: `Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Mer'odach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
rsv@Jeremiah:50:3 @ "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:4 @ "In those days and in that time, says the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come; and they shall seek the LORD their God.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:5 @ They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, `Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant which will never be forgotten.'
rsv@Jeremiah:50:6 @ "My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their fold.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:7 @ All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, `We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true habitation, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'
rsv@Jeremiah:50:8 @ "Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chalde'ans, and be as he-goats before the flock.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:9 @ For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a company of great nations, from the north country; and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:10 @ Chalde'a shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:11 @ "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you are wanton as a heifer at grass, and neigh like stallions,
rsv@Jeremiah:50:12 @ your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Lo, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness dry and desert.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but shall be an utter desolation; every one who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:14 @ Set 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:15 @ Raise a shout against her round about, she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen, her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her, do to her as she has done.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:16 @ Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:17 @ "Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:18 @ Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:19 @ I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of E'phraim and in Gilead.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:20 @ In those days and in that time, says the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none; and sin in Judah, and none shall be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:21 @ "Go up against the land of Meratha'im, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Slay, and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:22 @ The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!
rsv@Jeremiah:50:23 @ How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
rsv@Jeremiah:50:24 @ I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you strove against the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:25 @ The LORD has opened his armory, and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chalde'ans.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:26 @ Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:27 @ Slay all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:28 @ "Hark! they flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:29 @ "Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp round about her; let no one escape. Requite her according to her deeds, do to her according to all that she has done; for she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:30 @ Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:31 @ "Behold, I am against you, O proud one, says the Lord GOD of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:32 @ The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is round about him.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:33 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them; all who took them captive have held them fast, they refuse to let them go.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:35 @ "A sword upon the Chalde'ans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes and her wise men!
rsv@Jeremiah:50:36 @ A sword upon the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword upon her warriors, that they may be destroyed!
rsv@Jeremiah:50:37 @ A sword upon her horses and upon her chariots, and upon all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword upon all her treasures, that they may be plundered!
rsv@Jeremiah:50:38 @ A drought upon her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:39 @ "Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her; she shall be peopled no more for ever, nor inhabited for all generations.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:40 @ As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor'rah and their neighbor cities, says the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:41 @ "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:42 @ They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride upon horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!
rsv@Jeremiah:50:43 @ "The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in travail.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:44 @ "Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a strong sheepfold, I will suddenly make them run away from her; and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
rsv@Jeremiah:50:45 @ Therefore hear the plan which the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes which he has formed against the land of the Chalde'ans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
rsv@Jeremiah:50:46 @ At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."
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