Jeremiah:50:21-29
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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