NHEBJE - Jeremiah - 50

50:1  The word that Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

50:2  "Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and do not conceal: say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.

50:3  For out of the north there comes 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 animal.

50:4  In those days, and in that time,' says 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.

50:5  They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, "Come, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten."

50:6  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.

50:7  All who 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."

50:8  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.

50:9  For, behold, 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 as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.

50:10  Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied,' says Jehovah.'

50:11  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;

50:12  your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

50:13  Because of the wrath of Jehovah 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.

50:14  "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 Jehovah.

50:15  Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her towers are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.

50:16  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."'

50:17  '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.

50:18  Therefore thus says 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.

50:19  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.

50:20  In those days, and in that time, says 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."'"

50:21  "Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them," says Jehovah, "and do according to all that I have commanded you.

50:22  A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

50:23  How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

50:24  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 Jehovah.

50:25  Jehovah has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

50:26  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.

50:27  Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation."

50:28  The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.

50:29  "Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp 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 Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.

50:30  Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day," says Jehovah.

50:31  "Behold, I am against you, you proud one," says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

50:32  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."

50:33  Thus says Jehovah of hosts: "The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.

50:34  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.

50:35  A sword is on the Chaldeans," says Jehovah, "and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

50:36  A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

50:37  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.

50:38  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.

50:39  Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

50:40  As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it," says Jehovah, "so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein."

50:41  "Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

50:42  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.

50:43  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.

50:44  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 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?"

50:45  Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, 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.

50:46  At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations."