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Jeremiah 50 
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The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the
Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
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Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted
up give the word and keep nothing back say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach
is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.
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For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make
her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.
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In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel
will come, they and the children of Judah together they will go on their way weeping and
making prayer to the Lord their God.
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They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned
in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will
be kept in mind for ever.
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My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out
of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill,
having no memory of their resting-place.
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They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their
attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom
is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
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Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be
like he-goats before the flocks.
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For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great
nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her and
from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war not
one will come back without getting its mark.
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And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all
those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.
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Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters
of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a
noise like strong horses
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Your mother will be put to shame she who gave you birth will be looked
down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.
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Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will
be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make
sounds of fear at all her punishments.
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Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen
let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.
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Give a loud cry against her on every side she has given herself up, her
supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord
give her payment as she has done, so do to her.
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Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the
curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be
turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
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Israel is a wandering sheep the lions have been driving him away: first
he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
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So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I
will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to
the king of Assyria.
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And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get
his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim
and in Gilead.
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In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of
Israel is looked for, there will be nothing and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will
have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.
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Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the
people of Pekod put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do
everything I have given you orders to do.
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There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.
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How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon
become a waste among the nations!
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I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without
your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the
Lord.
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From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for
the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.
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Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open:
make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be
seen.
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Put all her oxen to the sword let them go down to death: sorrow is
theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
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The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the
land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for
his Temple.
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Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen put
up your tents against her on every side let no one get away: give her the reward of her work
as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against
the Holy One of Israel.
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For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her
men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.
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See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for
your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.
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And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be
no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round
about him.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the
children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a
tight grip they will not let them go.
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Their saviour is strong the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly
take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of
Babylon.
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A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of
Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.
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A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is
on her men of war, and they will be broken.
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A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like
women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.
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A sword is on her waters, drying them up for it is a land of images, and
their minds are fixed on false gods.
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For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make
their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living
there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.
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As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned
by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a
resting-place there.
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See, a people is coming from the north a great nation and a number of
kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
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Bows and spears are in their hands they are cruel and have no mercy their
voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses everyone in his place like men
going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
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The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become
feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
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See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against
the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her and I will
put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause
against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me?
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So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against
Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans Truly, they will be
pulled away by the smallest of the flock truly, he will make waste their fields with them.
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At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to
the ears of the nations.
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