rsv Jeremiah:50:11-29
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.
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