Jeremiah 50
50
Judgment on Babylon and Babylonia
1The word that the Lord spoke #Gen. 10:10; 11:9; 2 Kin. 17:24; Is. 13:1; 47:1; Dan. 1:1; Rev. 14:8against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
2“Declare among the nations,
Proclaim, and set up a standard;
Proclaim—do not conceal it—
Say, ‘Babylon is #Is. 21:9taken, #Is. 46:1; Jer. 51:44Bel is shamed.
Merodach is broken in pieces;
#Jer. 43:12, 13Her idols are humiliated,
Her images are broken in pieces.’
3#Jer. 51:48; Dan. 5:30, 31For out of the north #Is. 13:17, 18, 20a nation comes up against her,
Which shall make her land desolate,
And no one shall dwell therein.
They shall move, they shall depart,
Both man and beast.
4“In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,
“The children of Israel shall come,
#Ezra 2:1; Is. 11:12, 13; Jer. 3:18; 31:31; 33:7; Hos. 1:11They and the children of Judah together;
#Ezra 3:12, 13; (Ps. 126:5); Jer. 31:9; (Zech. 12:10)With continual weeping they shall come,
#Hos. 3:5And seek the Lord their God.
5They shall ask the way to Zion,
With their faces toward it, saying,
‘Come and let us join ourselves to the Lord
In #Jer. 31:31a perpetual covenant
That will not be forgotten.’
6“My people have been #Is. 53:6; (Ezek. 34:15, 16); Matt. 9:36; 10:6; 1 Pet. 2:25lost sheep.
Their shepherds have led them #Jer. 23:1; Ezek. 34:2astray;
They have turned them away on #(Jer. 2:20; 3:6, 23)the mountains.
They have gone from mountain to hill;
They have forgotten their resting place.
7All who found them have #Ps. 79:7devoured them;
And #Jer. 40:2, 3; Zech. 11:5their adversaries said, #Jer. 2:3; Dan. 9:16‘We have not offended,
Because they have sinned against the Lord, #(Ps. 90:1; 91:1)the habitation of justice,
The Lord, #Ps. 22:4; Jer. 14:8; 17:13the hope of their fathers.’
8“Move#Is. 48:20; Jer. 51:6, 45; Zech. 2:6, 7; (Rev. 18:4) from the midst of Babylon,
Go out of the land of the Chaldeans;
And be like the rams before the flocks.
9#Jer. 15:14; 51:27For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
An assembly of great nations from the north country,
And they shall array themselves against her;
From there she shall be captured.
Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior;
#2 Sam. 1:22None shall return in vain.
10And Chaldea shall become plunder;
#(Rev. 17:16)All who plunder her shall be satisfied,” says the Lord.
11“Because#Is. 47:6 you were glad, because you rejoiced,
You destroyers of My heritage,
Because you have grown fat #Hos. 10:11like a heifer threshing grain,
And you bellow like bulls,
12Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;
She who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a #Jer. 51:43wilderness,
A dry land and a desert.
13Because of the wrath of the Lord
She shall not be inhabited,
#Jer. 25:12But she shall be wholly desolate.
#Jer. 49:17Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.
14“Put#Jer. 51:2 yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
All you who bend the bow;
Shoot at her, spare no arrows,
For she has sinned against the Lord.
15Shout against her all around;
She has #1 Chr. 29:24; 2 Chr. 30:8; Lam. 5:6; Ezek. 17:18given her hand,
Her foundations have fallen,
#Jer. 51:58Her walls are thrown down;
For #Jer. 51:6, 11it is the vengeance of the Lord.
Take vengeance on her.
As she has done, so do to her.
16Cut off the sower from Babylon,
And him who handles the sickle at harvest time.
For fear of the oppressing sword
#Is. 13:14; Jer. 51:9Everyone shall turn to his own people,
And everyone shall flee to his own land.
17“Israel is like #2 Kin. 24:10, 14scattered sheep;
#Jer. 2:15The lions have driven him away.
First #2 Kin. 15:29; 17:6; 18:9–13the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this #2 Kin. 24:10–14; 25:1–7Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
18Therefore thus says 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 #Is. 10:12; Ezek. 31:3, 11, 12; Nah. 3:7, 18, 19Assyria.
19#Is. 65:10; Jer. 33:12; Ezek. 34:13But I will bring back Israel to his home,
And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan;
His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,
#Num. 23:21; Is. 43:25; (Jer. 31:34; Mic. 7:19)“The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none;
And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found;
For I will pardon those #Is. 1:9whom I preserve.
21“Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,
And against the inhabitants of #Ezek. 23:23Pekod.
Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,
“And do #2 Sam. 16:11; 2 Kin. 18:25; 2 Chr. 36:23; Is. 10:6; 44:28; 48:14according to all that I have commanded you.
22#Jer. 51:54A sound of battle is in the land,
And of great destruction.
23How #Is. 14:6; Jer. 51:20–24the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
24I have laid a snare for you;
You have indeed been #Jer. 51:8, 31; Dan. 5:30trapped, O Babylon,
And you were not aware;
You have been found and also caught,
Because you have #(Is. 45:9)contended against the Lord.
25The Lord has opened His armory,
And has brought out #Is. 13:5the weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord God of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
26Come against her from the farthest border;
Open her storehouses;
Cast her up as heaps of ruins,
And destroy her utterly;
Let nothing of her be left.
27Slay all her #Ps. 22:12; Is. 34:7; Jer. 46:21bulls,
Let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them!
For their day has come, the time of #Ps. 37:13; Jer. 48:44; Ezek. 7:7their punishment.
28The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon
#Ps. 149:6–9; Jer. 51:10Declares in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
The vengeance of His temple.
29“Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them escape.
#Ps. 137:8; Jer. 51:56; (2 Thess. 1:6); Rev. 18:6Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
#(Is. 47:10)For she has been proud against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
30#Is. 13:18; Jer. 49:26; 51:4Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets,
And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord.
31“Behold, I am against you,
O most haughty one!” says the Lord God of hosts;
“For your day has come,
The time that I will punish you.
32The most #Is. 26:5; Mal. 4:1proud shall stumble and fall,
And no one will raise him up;
#Jer. 21:14I will kindle a fire in his cities,
And it will devour all around him.”
33Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“The children of Israel were oppressed,
Along with the children of Judah;
All who took them captive have held them fast;
They have refused to let them go.
34#Prov. 23:11; Is. 43:14; Jer. 15:21; 31:11; Rev. 18:8Their Redeemer is strong;
#Is. 47:4The Lord of hosts is His name.
He will thoroughly plead their #Jer. 51:36; Mic. 7:9case,
That He may give rest to the land,
And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35“A sword is against the Chaldeans,” says the Lord,
“Against the inhabitants of Babylon,
And #Dan. 5:30against her princes and #Is. 47:13; Jer. 51:57her wise men.
36A sword is #Is. 44:25; Jer. 48:30against the soothsayers, and they will be fools.
A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
37A sword is against their horses,
Against their chariots,
And against all #Jer. 25:20; Ezek. 30:5the mixed peoples who are in her midst;
And #Jer. 51:30; Nah. 3:13they will become like women.
A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.
38#Is. 44:27; Jer. 51:36; Rev. 16:12A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up.
For it is the land of carved images,
And they are insane with their idols.
39“Therefore#Is. 13:21, 22; 34:14; Jer. 51:37; Rev. 18:2 the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals,
And the ostriches shall dwell in it.
#Is. 13:20; Jer. 25:12It shall be inhabited no more forever,
Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40#Gen. 19:24, 25; Is. 13:19; Jer. 49:18; (Luke 17:28–30); 2 Pet. 2:6; Jude 7As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the Lord,
“So no one shall reside there,
Nor son of man #Is. 13:20dwell in it.
41“Behold,#Is. 13:2–5; Jer. 6:22; 25:14; 51:27 a people shall come from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.
42#Jer. 6:23They shall hold the bow and the lance;
#Is. 13:18They are cruel and shall not show mercy.
#Is. 5:30Their voice shall roar like the sea;
They shall ride on horses,
Set in array, like a man for the battle,
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43“The king of Babylon has #Jer. 51:31heard the report about them,
And his hands grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in #Jer. 6:24childbirth.
44“Behold,#Jer. 49:19–21 he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place 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?
Who will arraign Me?
And #Job 41:10; Jer. 49:19who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?”
45Therefore hear #(Ps. 33:11; Is. 14:24); Jer. 51:10, 11the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Babylon,
And His #Jer. 51:29purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
#Jer. 49:19, 20Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
46#Rev. 18:9At the noise of the taking of Babylon
The earth trembles,
And the cry is heard among the nations.
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Jeremiah 50
50
A Message Concerning Babylon
1The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:
2“Declare among the nations and proclaim,
and lift up a banner.
Proclaim, you must not conceal it.
Say, ‘Babylon is captured,
Bel is ashamed,
Merodach is filled with terror,
her idols are ashamed,
her idols are filled with terror.
3For a nation will come up against her from the north.
It will make her land as a horror,
and an inhabitant will not be in her.
From humans#Hebrew “human” to animals#Hebrew “animal” they all will wander off.
They will go away.
4In those days and in that time,’ ” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh,
“the people#Or “sons/children” of Israel will come,
they and the people#Or “sons/children” of Judah together.
Weeping as they go,#Literally “They shall go and weeping” they will go,
and Yahweh their God they will seek.
5They will ask the way to Zion,
turning their faces there.
They will come and join themselves to Yahweh
by an everlasting covenant#Literally “a covenant of eternity” that will not be forgotten.
6My people have become lost sheep,
their shepherds have caused them to go astray.
They led them away to the mountains.
From mountain to hill they have gone,
they have forgotten their resting place.
7All those who found them have devoured them.
And their foes have said, ‘We are not guilty,
because#Literally “under that” they have sinned against Yahweh, the true pasture,#Literally “settlement of righteousness”
even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.’#Or “fathers”
8Flee from the midst of Babylon,
and from the land of the Chaldeans.
Go out and be like he-goats
before#Literally “to the face of” the flock.
9For look, I am going to stir up,
and I am going to bring against Babylon
a contingent of great nations
from the land of the north.
And they will draw up a battle formation against her,
from there she will be captured.
Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success,
he does not return without success.
10And Chaldea will be as booty,
all those who plunder her will be satisfied,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh.
11“Though you rejoice, though you exult,
O plunderers of my inheritance,
though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass,
and you neigh like the powerful stallions,
12your mother will be very ashamed.
She who gave birth to you will be humiliated.#Or “ashamed”
Look, she will be the least of the nations,
a desert,#Or “wilderness” dry land, and wilderness.#Or “Arabah”
13Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited,
but she will be a wasteland, all of her.
Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled
and will hiss because of all her wounds.
14Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around,
all those who bend the bow, shoot at her.
You must not spare arrows,#Hebrew “arrow”
for she has sinned against Yahweh.
15Raise a war cry against her on all sides.
She has surrendered.#Literally “She has given her hand”
Her towers have fallen,
her walls are ruined.
For this is the vengeance of Yahweh.
Take revenge on her.
As she has done to others,
so do to her.
16Cut off the sower from Babylon,
and the one who uses the sickle in the time of harvest.
Because of#Literally “From the face of” the sword of the oppressor
each one will turn to their people,
and each one will flee to their land.
17Israel is a sheep scattered,
lions drove them away.
The first who devoured it was the king of Assyria,
and now at the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones.”
18Therefore#Literally “To thus” thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Look, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land
just as I punished the king of Assyria.
19And I will restore Israel to its pasture,
and it will feed on Carmel, and in Bashan,
and on the hills#Hebrew “hill” of Ephraim, and in Gilead
its hunger will be satisfied.
20In those days and at that time,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh,
“the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there is none,
and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found,
for I will forgive those I left behind.
21To the land of Merathaim,
go up against her,
and against the inhabitants of Pekod,
massacre and destroy them,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh,
“and do according to all that I have commanded you.
22The sound of battle is in the land,
and great destruction.
23How the blacksmith’s hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken!
How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations!
24I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon.
But you yourself did not know.
You were discovered and seized,
because with Yahweh you measured yourself.
25Yahweh has opened his armory,
and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath,
for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts
in the land of the Chaldeans.
26Come against her from the end,
open her granaries.
Pile her up like heaps and destroy her.
Let there be no remnant for her.
27Massacre all her bulls,
let them go down to the slaughtering.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
the time of their punishment.
28There is the sound of fugitives and survivors
from the land of Babylon,
to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God,
the vengeance for his temple.
29Summon archers against Babylon,
all those who bend the bow.
Encamp all around her,
there must not be for her an escape.
Take revenge on her according to her deeds.
According to all that she has done, so do to her.
For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently,
against the Holy One of Israel.
30Therefore#Literally “To thus” her young men will fall in her public squares,
and all her soldiers#Literally “her the men of war” will perish on that day,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh.
31“Look, I am against you, O arrogant one,”
declares#Literally “a declaration of” Lord Yahweh of hosts,
“for your day has come,
the time when I will punish you.
32And the arrogant one will stumble and fall,
and there is no one who raises him up.
And I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it will devour everything around him.”
33Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
“The people#Or “sons/children” of Israel are oppressed,
and the people#Or “sons/children” of Judah likewise,
for#Literally “and” all their captors have seized them,
they refuse to let them go free.
34Their redeemer is strong,
his name is Yahweh of hosts.
Surely he will plead their case,
in order to make peace for the earth,
but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.
35A sword against the Chaldeans,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh,
“and against the inhabitants of Babylon,
and against her officials,
and against her wise men.
36A sword against the oracle priests,
and they will become foolish.
A sword against her warriors,
and they will be filled with terror.
37A sword against his horses,
and against his chariots,#Hebrew “chariot”
and against all the foreign troops who are in the midst of her,
so that they may become as women.
A sword against her treasures,
so that they may be plundered.
38A drought will come against her waters,
and they will dry up,
for it is a land of images,
and because of the frightful objects, they act like madmen.
39Therefore#Literally “To thus” desert creatures will live there#Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation with jackals,
and daughters of ostriches#Hebrew “ostrich” will inhabit her.
And she will not be inhabited again forever,#Literally “to eternity”
and she will not be dwelt in for all generations.#Literally “until generation and generation”
40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
and their neighbors,” declares#Literally “a declaration of” Yahweh,
“no one will live there,
and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her.
41Look, a people is about to come
from the north,
and a great nation and many kings are woken up
from the remotest part of the earth.
42They keep hold of bow and short sword.
They are cruel and they have no mercy.
Their sound is like the sea, it roars,
and upon horses they ride.
Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle,
against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43The king of Babylon heard their report
and his hands grew slack.
Anxiety has seized him,
fear and pain like the woman who gives birth.
44Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets#Hebrew “thicket” of the Jordan
against a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream,#Literally “a pasture of ever-flowing”
so I will chase them away quickly#Literally “I will do in an instant I will cause them to run” from her,
and I will appoint whoever is chosen over her.
For who is like me, and who can summon me,
and who is this shepherd who can stand before me?#Literally “to the face of me”
45Therefore#Literally “To thus” hear the plan of Yahweh
that he has planned against Babylon,
and his plans
that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans.
Surely#Literally “If not” they will drag them away,
the little ones of the flock.
Surely#Literally “If not” he will cause their grazing place
to be desolate over them.
46At the sound, ‘Babylon has been captured,’
the earth will quake,
and a cry for help among the nations
will be heard.”
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