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She will be the least of the nations— a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/50.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />But your homeland will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace. You will become the least of nations— a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/50.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/50.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/50.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations <i>shall be</i> a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/50.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Your mother shall be deeply ashamed; She who bore you shall be ashamed. Behold, the least of the nations <i>shall be</i> a wilderness, A dry land and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/50.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Your mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, <i>she will be</i> the least of the nations, A wilderness, a dry land and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/50.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Your mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/50.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Your mother will be greatly ashamed, She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, <i>she will be</i> the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parched land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/50.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Your mother will be greatly ashamed; She who gave you birth will be humiliated. Behold, <i>she will be</i> the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parched land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/50.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Your mother [Babylon] shall be greatly shamed; She who gave you birth will be ashamed. Behold, <i>she will be</i> the least of the nations, A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/50.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />your mother will be utterly humiliated; she who bore you will be put to shame. Look! She will lag behind all the nations — an arid wilderness, a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/50.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />your mother will be utterly humiliated; she who bore you will be put to shame. Look! She will lag behind all the nations— a dry land, a wilderness, an Arabah. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/50.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/50.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The city of Babylon was like a mother to you. But it will be disgraced and become nothing but a barren desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/50.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />your mother shall be sore ashamed; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/50.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />But your mother will be greatly ashamed. The woman who gave birth to you will be disgraced. Babylon, you will be the least important nation. You will become a parched desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/50.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />but your own great city will be humiliated and disgraced. Babylonia will be the least important nation of all; it will become a dry and waterless desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/50.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />your mother will be greatly devastated, she who gave birth to you will be ashamed. She will become the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/50.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/50.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />But Babylonia will be put to great shame. The land where you were born will be disgraced. Indeed, Babylonia will become the least important of all nations. It will become a dry and barren desert. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/50.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: look, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/50.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Your mother shall be greatly confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/50.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/50.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Your mother has been greatly ashamed, "" She who bore you has been confounded, "" Behold, the last of nations [is] a wilderness, "" A dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/50.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Ashamed hath been your mother greatly, Confounded hath she been that bare you, Lo, the hindermost of nations is a wilderness, A dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/50.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Your mother was greatly ashamed; she bearing you was put to shame: behold the last of the nations a desert, dryness and a sterile region.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/50.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/50.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Your mother has been exceedingly shamed, and she who bore you has become equal to the dust. Behold, she will be the last among the nations, a desert, impassable and dry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/50.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Your mother will indeed be put to shame, she that bore you shall be abashed; See, the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry wasteland. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/50.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Lo, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, dry land, and a desert.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/50.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Your mother is exceedingly ashamed; she who bore you is confounded: behold, the last of the nations shall become wilderness, waste, and desolation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/50.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Your mother is very ashamed and she blushed, she who gave you birth. Behold, the last of the nations is as a wilderness, a waste and a desolation<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/50.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Your mother shall be sore ashamed, She that bore you shall be confounded; Behold, the hindermost of the nations Shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/50.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: <i>she is</i> the last of the nations, desolate,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=15354" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/50.htm">Babylon's Fall is Certain</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11</span>“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions, <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mə·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">your mother</a> <a href="/hebrew/3966.htm" title="3966: mə·’ōḏ (Adv) -- Muchness, force, abundance. From the same as 'uwd; properly, vehemence, i.e. vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc.">will be greatly</a> <a href="/hebrew/954.htm" title="954: bō·wō·šāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To be ashamed. A primitive root; properly, to pale, i.e. By implication to be ashamed; also to be disappointed or delayed.">ashamed;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3205.htm" title="3205: yō·w·laḏ·tə·ḵem (V-Qal-Prtcpl-fsc:: 2mp) -- A primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage.">she who bore you</a> <a href="/hebrew/2659.htm" title="2659: ḥā·p̄ə·rāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- A primitive root: to blush; figuratively, to be ashamed, disappointed; causatively, to shame, reproach.">will be disgraced.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2009.htm" title="2009: hin·nêh (Interjection) -- Lo! behold! Prolongation for hen; lo!">Behold,</a> <a href="/hebrew/319.htm" title="319: ’a·ḥă·rîṯ (N-fsc) -- The after-part, end. From 'achar; the last or end, hence, the future; also posterity.">she will be the least</a> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm" title="1471: gō·w·yim (N-mp) -- Rarely goy; apparently from the same root as gevah; a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts.">of the nations,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: miḏ·bār (N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">a wilderness,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6723.htm" title="6723: ṣî·yāh (N-fs) -- Dryness, drought. From an unused root meaning to parch; aridity; concretely, a desert.">a dry land,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6160.htm" title="6160: wa·‘ă·rā·ḇāh (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- From arab; a desert; especially the sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea.">and a desert.</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a></span><br />And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1-5</a></span><br />“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Revelation 18:2</a></span><br />And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-5.htm">Revelation 17:5</a></span><br />And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/14-4.htm">Isaiah 14:4-6</a></span><br />you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! / The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. / It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-10.htm">Revelation 18:10</a></span><br />In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm">Isaiah 21:9</a></span><br />Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/14-8.htm">Revelation 14:8</a></span><br />Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-1.htm">Isaiah 13:1-22</a></span><br />This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received: / Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. / I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-21.htm">Revelation 18:21</a></span><br />Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-7.htm">Isaiah 47:7-9</a></span><br />You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome. / So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’ / These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-7.htm">Revelation 18:7</a></span><br />As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-11.htm">Isaiah 47:11</a></span><br />But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-8.htm">Revelation 18:8</a></span><br />Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-10.htm">Isaiah 47:10</a></span><br />You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: behold, the last of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.</p><p class="hdg">mother</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/49-2.htm">Jeremiah 49:2</a></b></br> Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/galatians/4-26.htm">Galatians 4:26</a></b></br> But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/revelation/17-5.htm">Revelation 17:5</a></b></br> And upon her forehead <i>was</i> a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.</p><p class="hdg">the hindermost</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/25-26.htm">Jeremiah 25:26</a></b></br> And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which <i>are</i> upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm">Isaiah 23:13</a></b></br> Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, <i>till</i> the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; <i>and</i> he brought it to ruin.</p><p class="hdg">a wilderness</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/50-35.htm">Jeremiah 50:35-40</a></b></br> A sword <i>is</i> upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise <i>men</i>… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12</a></b></br> And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, <i>that</i> I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Jeremiah 51:25,26,43,62-64</a></b></br> Behold, I <i>am</i> against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/49-23.htm">Ashamed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-10.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/jeremiah/46-16.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-19.htm">Bore</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-2.htm">Confounded</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-10.htm">Covered</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-6.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-2.htm">Disappointed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-20.htm">Disgraced</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-28.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-23.htm">Greatly</a> <a href="/genesis/33-2.htm">Hindermost</a> <a href="/joshua/10-19.htm">Hindmost</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-19.htm">Humiliated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/44-12.htm">Least</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-2.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-9.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-18.htm">Parched</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-13.htm">Reproach</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-13.htm">Shamed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-13.htm">Sore</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-12.htm">Sorely</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-13.htm">Unwatered</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-9.htm">Utterly</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-3.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-6.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/51-47.htm">Ashamed</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-21.htm">Bare</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-3.htm">Birth</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-22.htm">Bore</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-17.htm">Confounded</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-42.htm">Covered</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-39.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-17.htm">Disappointed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-47.htm">Disgraced</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-38.htm">Dry</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-8.htm">Greatly</a> <a href="/genesis/33-2.htm">Hindermost</a> <a href="/genesis/33-2.htm">Hindmost</a> <a href="/malachi/2-9.htm">Humiliated</a> <a href="/amos/9-9.htm">Least</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-1.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-23.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-43.htm">Parched</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-51.htm">Reproach</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-17.htm">Shamed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-6.htm">Sore</a> <a href="/ezekiel/31-11.htm">Sorely</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-43.htm">Unwatered</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-21.htm">Utterly</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-21.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-43.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 50</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-1.htm">The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The shame comes from the impending judgment and downfall of Babylon, a once-proud empire. In biblical context, shame is a common consequence of sin and rebellion against God. Babylon's pride and idolatry are key reasons for this shame, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/47.htm">Isaiah 47:1-3</a>, where Babylon is also depicted as a humiliated woman.<p><b>she who bore you will be disgraced.</b><br>The disgrace of Babylon is emphasized here, highlighting the complete reversal of its fortunes. Historically, Babylon was a dominant power, but its fall was prophesied as a divine act of judgment. This disgrace is not just a loss of power but a moral and spiritual downfall, aligning with the biblical theme that God opposes the proud (<a href="/james/4-6.htm">James 4:6</a>).<p><b>Behold, she will be the least of the nations,</b><br>This prophecy foretells Babylon's reduction from a world superpower to insignificance. Historically, after its conquest by the Medes and Persians, Babylon never regained its former glory. This fulfills the prophetic word and serves as a warning to all nations about the consequences of pride and defiance against God.<p><b>a wilderness,</b><br>The imagery of a wilderness suggests desolation and abandonment. Geographically, the area around Babylon did become less inhabited over time. This desolation is symbolic of God's judgment, as seen in other prophetic texts like <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19-22</a>, where Babylon's fall is likened to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.<p><b>a dry land,</b><br>A dry land signifies barrenness and lack of life, contrasting with Babylon's former prosperity. This imagery is consistent with the biblical theme of judgment leading to desolation, as seen in the curses for disobedience in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-23.htm">Deuteronomy 28:23-24</a>. It underscores the totality of Babylon's downfall.<p><b>and a desert.</b><br>The desert represents a place of emptiness and lifelessness. Archaeologically, the ruins of Babylon today reflect this prophecy, as the once-great city lies in ruins. This serves as a powerful reminder of the transient nature of human achievements and the enduring sovereignty of God over the nations.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a></b><br>The primary subject of this prophecy, Babylon was a powerful empire known for its wealth and influence. In this context, it is personified as a mother who will be shamed and disgraced.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivered this message. He was called by God to speak to the nations, including pronouncing judgment on Babylon.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel_and_judah.htm">Israel and Judah</a></b><br>The people of God who were in exile in Babylon at the time of this prophecy. Their eventual deliverance is implied in the broader context of <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/50.htm">Jeremiah 50</a>.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a></b><br>Symbolic of desolation and judgment, representing the future state of Babylon as prophesied by Jeremiah.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_nations.htm">The Nations</a></b><br>Refers to the surrounding nations that would witness Babylon's downfall and the fulfillment of God's judgment.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_nations.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Nations</a></b><br>God is in control of all nations, and His plans will prevail despite human power and pride.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_pride.htm">The Consequences of Pride</a></b><br>Babylon's downfall serves as a warning against pride and self-reliance. Nations and individuals alike must humble themselves before God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_for_the_oppressed.htm">Hope for the Oppressed</a></b><br>The prophecy offers hope to those suffering under oppression, reminding them that God sees their plight and will act in His timing.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_certainty_of_god's_judgment.htm">The Certainty of God's Judgment</a></b><br>Just as Babylon faced judgment, all will be held accountable before God. This calls for repentance and faithfulness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_desolation.htm">Spiritual Desolation</a></b><br>The imagery of wilderness and desert can also apply to spiritual dryness, urging believers to seek renewal in God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_50.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 50</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_bible's_stance_on_classism.htm">What defines a nomad?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_reconcile_jer_2_6_with_no_migration_proof.htm">In Jeremiah 2:6, how can we reconcile the claim of God leading Israel through the wilderness with the lack of definitive archaeological evidence supporting such a mass migration?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_supports_babylon's_desertification.htm">Jeremiah 50:39 mentions desert creatures taking over Babylon's ruins; what scientific or historical data supports such an extreme transformation of the land?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_nomads_craft_gold_cherubim.htm">Exodus 37:1-9: How could ancient desert nomads craft such detailed cherubim from pure gold with the tools and resources supposedly available?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/50.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">Your mother shall be sore confounded . . .</span>--The prophet speaks to the people of Babylon, and the city is therefore described as their mother.<p><span class= "bld">The hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness . . .</span>--The interpolated words mar the force of the sentence. Better, <span class= "ital">behold the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a waste, and a desert. </span>This was to be the state to which Babylon should be reduced.<p><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">your mother</span><br /><span class="heb">אִמְּכֶם֙</span> <span class="translit">(’im·mə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> </span><span class="str2">A mother, )</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be greatly</span><br /><span class="heb">מְאֹ֔ד</span> <span class="translit">(mə·’ōḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3966.htm">Strong's 3966: </a> </span><span class="str2">Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ashamed;</span><br /><span class="heb">בּ֤וֹשָׁה</span> <span class="translit">(bō·wō·šāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_954.htm">Strong's 954: </a> </span><span class="str2">To pale, to be ashamed, to be disappointed, delayed</span><br /><br /><span class="word">she who bore you</span><br /><span class="heb">יֽוֹלַדְתְּכֶ֑ם</span> <span class="translit">(yō·w·laḏ·tə·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3205.htm">Strong's 3205: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be disgraced.</span><br /><span class="heb">חָפְרָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(ḥā·p̄ə·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2659.htm">Strong's 2659: </a> </span><span class="str2">To blush, to be ashamed, disappointed, to shame, reproach</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Behold,</span><br /><span class="heb">הִנֵּה֙</span> <span class="translit">(hin·nêh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interjection<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2009.htm">Strong's 2009: </a> </span><span class="str2">Lo! behold!</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[she will be] the least</span><br /><span class="heb">אַחֲרִ֣ית</span> <span class="translit">(’a·ḥă·rîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_319.htm">Strong's 319: </a> </span><span class="str2">The last, end, the future, posterity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the nations,</span><br /><span class="heb">גּוֹיִ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(gō·w·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm">Strong's 1471: </a> </span><span class="str2">A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִדְבָּ֖ר</span> <span class="translit">(miḏ·bār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> </span><span class="str2">A pasture, a desert, speech</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a dry land,</span><br /><span class="heb">צִיָּ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(ṣî·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6723.htm">Strong's 6723: </a> </span><span class="str2">Aridity, a desert</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and a desert.</span><br /><span class="heb">וַעֲרָבָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(wa·‘ă·rā·ḇāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6160.htm">Strong's 6160: </a> </span><span class="str2">Arabah -- a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley running south from the Sea of Galilee</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/50-12.htm">Jeremiah 50:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/50-12.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 50:12 Your mother shall be utterly disappointed (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 50:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 50:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/50-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 50:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 50:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>