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Jeremiah 50
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The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the
Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. |
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Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish,
and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is
broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. |
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For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall
make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove,
they shall depart, both man and beast. |
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In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel
shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they
shall go, and seek the LORD their God. |
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They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come,
and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not
be forgotten. |
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My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go
astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from
mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. |
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All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We
offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of
justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. |
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Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the
Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. |
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For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of
great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array
against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a
mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. |
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And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith
the LORD. |
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Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine
heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as
bulls; |
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Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:
behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and
a desert. |
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Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall
be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and
hiss at all her plagues. |
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the
bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD. |
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Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations
are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD:
take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her. |
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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the
time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one
to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land. |
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Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the
king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon hath broken his bones. |
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of
Assyria. |
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And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on
Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and
Gilead. |
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In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel
shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. |
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Go up against the land of
Merathaim, even against it, and against the
inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD,
and do according to all that I have commanded thee. |
God says to do the usual thing to the inhabitants of "the land of Merathaim":
kill them all.
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A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. |
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is
Babylon become a desolation among the nations! |
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I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven
against the LORD. |
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The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of
his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land
of the Chaldeans. |
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Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up
as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. |
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Slay all her bullocks;
let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come,
the time of their visitation. |
(50:27-30)
God commands that all Babylonian bullocks be slaughtered, that archers shoot all
Babylonians, and that all their men be killed in war.
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The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to
declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his
temple.
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Call together the
archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round
about; let none thereof
escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she
hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against
the Holy One of Israel. |
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Therefore shall her
young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in
that day, saith the LORD. |
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Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts:
for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. |
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And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up:
and I will kindle a fire
in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. |
God, the pyromaniac, will personally set the fires that will burn to death the inhabitants of
entire cities.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of
Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them
fast; they refused to let them go. |
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Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall
throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet
the inhabitants of Babylon. |
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A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of
Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. |
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A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty
men; and they shall be dismayed. |
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A sword is upon their
horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that
are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and
they shall be robbed. |
God plans to kill all the Babylonian horses,
and to make the Babylonian men "become like women." (A fate worse than
death to a misogynous god.).
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A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the
land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. |
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Therefore the wild
beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there,
and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for
ever; neither shall
it be dwelt in from generation to generation. |
God prophesies that Babylon will never again
be inhabited. But it has been inhabited constantly since the prophecy was
supposedly made, and is inhabited still today.
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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof,
saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man
dwell therein. |
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Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many
kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. |
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They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew
mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses,
every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter
of Babylon. |
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The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed
feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. |
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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the
habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her:
and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me?
and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand
before me? |
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Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against
Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the
Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he
shall make their habitation desolate with them. |
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At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is
heard among the nations.
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