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They will come, and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My people have 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 resting place.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, "We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For, look, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows shall be like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied,' says the LORD.'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"Set 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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her towers are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land."'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>'Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In those days, and in that time, says 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 leave as a remnant."'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them," says the LORD, "and do according to all that I have commanded you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken. How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, the LORD of hosts, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them. for their day has come, the time of their visitation."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The voice of those who 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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>"Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; camp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day," says the LORD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>"Look, I am against you, you proud one," says the Lord, the LORD of hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The children of Israel and the people of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>A sword is on the Chaldeans," says the LORD, "and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her officials, and on her wise men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they glory over idols.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it," says the LORD, "so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live in it."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>"Look, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Look, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? And who will appoint me a time? And who is the shepherd who can stand before me?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: "Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/jeremiah/50-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations."<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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