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publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.</p> <p class="hdg">Hope for Israel and Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward,'saying , Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 he-goats before the flocks.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For, lo, 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 thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.</p> <p class="hdg">Babylon's Fall is Certain</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain , and neigh as strong horses;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Shout against her round about: she hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Redemption for God's People</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, 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> <p class="hdg">The Destruction of Babylon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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 Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jehovah hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her 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 Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And 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 that are round about him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all that took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah 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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Behold, 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 whoso 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 that can stand before me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath 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="/jeremiah/50-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">American Standard Version, 1901<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/49.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 49"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 49" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/51.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 51"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 51" /></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="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/jeremiah/50-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><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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