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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 50 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/50.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/50-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Jeremiah 50</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/49.htm" title="Jeremiah 49">◄</a> Jeremiah 50 <a href="../jeremiah/51.htm" title="Jeremiah 51">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/50-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Prophecy against Babylon<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word that Jehovah spake against Babel, against the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Announce ye in the nations, and cause to be heard, and lift up a signal; cause to be heard, ye shall not hide: say, Babel was taken, Bel was ashamed, Merodach was broken; her images were ashamed, her blocks were broken.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For a nation came up from the north against her; it shall set her land for a desolation, and none shall be dwelling in her: from man and even to beast they moved, and they went.<p> <A name="5"></a><p class="hdg">Hope for Israel and Judah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall come, they and the sons of Judah together, going, and they wept: they shall go and shall seek Jehovah their God. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>To Zion shall they ask the way, thither their faces: Come ye, and we will join ourselves to Jehovah an eternal covenant; it shall not be forgotten.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All finding them consumed them: and their adversaries said, We shall not transgress, for they sinned against Jehovah the habitation of justice, and the hope of their fathers, Jehovah.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Move from the midst of Babel, and from the land of the Chaldeans; come forth and be ye as the he goats before the flock.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For behold I raise up and bring up against Babel a convocation of great nations from the land of the north: and they arranged against her; from thence she shall be taken: his arrow as of a strong destroyer shall not turn back in vain.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Chaldea was for a spoil: all spoiling her shall be satisfied, says Jehovah.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">Babylon’s Fall Is Certain<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Because thou wilt be glad, because thou wilt exult, ye plundering mine inheritance, because thou wilt show off proudly as a heifer at grass, and thou wilt neigh as the strong ones;<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, and it was wholly a desolation: every one passing over Babel shall be astonished and shall hiss at all her blows.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Arrange yourselves against Babel round about: all ye bending the bow, cast at her, ye shall not spare to the arrow, for she sinned against Jehovah.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Shout against her round about: she gave her hand: her supports fell, her walls were pulled down: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: avenge ye upon her; as she did, do ye to her.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Cut off him sowing from Babel, and him holding the sickle in time of harvest: from the face of the Grecian sword they shall turn a man to his people, and they shall flee a man to his land.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Redemption for God’s People<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Behold me reviewing for the king of Babel, and for his land, as I reviewed to the king of Assur. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I turned back Israel to his habitation, and he fed in Carmel and Bashan; and upon mount Ephraim and Gilead shall his soul be satisfied. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In those days and in that time, says Jehovah, he will seek the iniquity of Israel, and not any; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I shall forgive to whom I shall leave.<p> <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">The Destruction of Babylon<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Go up against the land of double rebellion, against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, laying waste and destroying after them, says Jehovah; and do according to all which I commanded thee.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The voice of war in the land, and a great breaking.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>How was the hammer of all the earth cut off, and it will be broken! How was Babel for a desolation among the nations!<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I laid snares for thee and also thou wert taken, O Babel, and thou knewest not: thou wert found and thou wert also taken, for thou didst contend against Jehovah.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jehovah opened his treasure, and he will bring forth the vessels of his anger: for this the work to the Lord Jehovah of armies in the land of the Chaldeans.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Come ye against her from the extremity; open her store-houses: cast her up as heaps and exterminate her: there shall be no remnant to her.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Lay waste all her bullocks; come down to the slaughter: wo to them! for their day came, the time of their reviewing.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>The voice of those fleeing and escaping out of the land of Babel, to announce in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Cause ye many to be heard against Babel: all ye bending the bow encamp against her round about; there shall be no escaping: requite her according to her work; according to all she did, do to her: for she acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For this her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of her war shall be destroyed in that day, says Jehovah.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Behold me against thee, O pride, says the Lord Jehovah of armies: for thy day came, the time I reviewed thee.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And pride stumbled and fell, and none lifting up to it: and I kindled a fire in his cities and it shall consume all round about him.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thus said Jehovah of armies: the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah being oppressed together: and all taking them captive held upon them; they refused to send them away.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He redeeming them is strong; Jehovah of armies, his name: pleading, he will plead their cause, so that he caused the land to rest, and caused disquiet to the inhabitants of Babel.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>A sword upon the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, and to the inhabitants of Babel and to her chiefs, and to her wise.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>A sword against the liars; and they were foolish: a sword against her strong ones, and they were broken.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>A sword against his horses and against his chariots, and against all the mixture which is in her midst; and they were for women: a sword against her treasures, and they were plundered.<p> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>A sword upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: for it is a land of carved images, and in their terrors they will be foolish.<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>For this the inhabitans of the deserts shall dwell with the islands, and the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; and she shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation.<p> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighbors, says Jehovah; a man shall not dwell there, and the son of man shall not sojourn in her.<p> <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Behold, a people coming from the north and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the thighs of the earth.<p> <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They shall hold the bow and the javelin: they are fierce, and they will not pity: their voice shall sound as the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, being arranged as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Babel.<p> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>The king of Babel heard their report, and his hands were relaxed: anguish seized him as the pain of her bringing forth.<p> <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Behold, as a lion he will come up from the excellency of Jordan to the habitation of strength: for I will wink; I will cause them to run away from her: and who the chosen I shall appoint to her? for who like me? and who shall arraign me? and who that shepherd who shall stand before me? <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>For this, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah which he counseled against Babel; and his purposes which he purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: if the last of the flock shall not drag them out: if he shall not lay waste the habitation upon them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>From the voice of the taking of Babel the earth was shaken, and the cry was heard among the nations.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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