rsv Jeremiah:50:33-46
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."