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Judgment on Babylon and Its Final Fall (part 1)

Jeremiah 50:1-44

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Chapter 50
1 The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet. 2 Declare among the nations and make it heard; lift up a banner, make it heard. Do not conceal it. Say: "Babel is captured, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her idols are broken." 3 For a nation from the north has come up against her. It will make her land a desolation, and there will be no inhabitant in it, neither man nor beast—they are fled, they are gone. 4 In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah will come together. They will go, weeping as they go, and they will seek the LORD their God. 5 They will ask the way to Zion; let them come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that he will not forget. 6 My people were lost sheep; their shepherds led them astray; mountains turned them back; from hill to hill they went; they forgot their resting place. 7 All who found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, "Not guilty," because they sinned against the LORD, the pasture of righteousness and hope of their fathers, the LORD. 8 Flee from the midst of Babel and go out from the land of the Chaldeans, and be like he-goats before the flock. 9 For behold, I am rousing and bringing up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north, and they will array against her from there; it will capture her half like a mighty one discerning; it will not return empty. 10 And she will be plunder for the Chaldeans; they will be satisfied with all her plunder, says the LORD. 11 Because you rejoice, because you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, because you frolic like a heifer at grass and neigh like stallions. 12 Shame—your mother has been greatly shamed, the one who bore you. Behold, the end of the nations: a wilderness, a wasteland, and a plain. 13 From the burning anger of the LORD she will not be inhabited, and she will be a desolation; every passerby over Babel will desolate her and whistle over all her strokes. 14 Set yourselves in order against Babel all around, all you bowmen of his hand. Shoot at her—do not spare! Shoot, because she has sinned against the LORD. 15 Shout against her all around; she has given her hand, her foundations have fallen, her walls have been destroyed. For it is the vengeance of the LORD; avenge yourselves on her as she has done—do to her! 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon and the one grasping the sickle at the time of harvest because of the sword of the oppressor—each man to his people they will turn, and each man to his land they will flee. 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; lions drove it away. The first one devoured it—the king of Assyria—and this last one crushed it—Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 18 Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am visiting upon the king of Babylon and upon his land just as I visited upon the king of Assyria. 19 And I will return Israel to his pasture, and she will pasture on Carmel and Bashan, and on Mount Ephraim and Gilead his soul will be satisfied. 20 In those days and at that time, says the LORD: He will seek the iniquity of Israel, and it will not be found; and the sins of Judah, and they will not be found; for I will forgive those whom I leave. 21 Against the land of Merathaim, go up against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: sword and devotion after them—oracle of the LORD—and do according to all that I have commanded you. 22 A sound of warfare in the land, and great breakage. 23 How the hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 24 I laid a snare for you, and you were captured, Babel, and you did not know; you were found, and you were seized, for you provoked the LORD. 25 The LORD opened his treasury and brought out the vessels of his indignation, for it is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. 26 Come to her from the end, open her storehouses, pile her up like heaps, and devote her to destruction—let there not be for her a remnant. 27 Cut off every heifer! They have gone down to the slaughterer. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of your oversight of them. 28 A voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. 29 Proclaim to Babylon, among many: all who bend the bow, encamp on her all around. Let there not be for her an escape. Confirm to her according to her deed; as all that she has done, do to her. For she has acted presumptuously against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. 30 Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all her men of war will be silenced on that day, says the LORD. 31 Behold, presumptuous one—oracle of the Lord GOD of hosts—for your day has come, the time when I will visit you. 32 And the presumptuous rebellion stumbled and fell, and no one raises him up. I kindled fire in his cities, and it devoured all his surroundings. 33 Thus says the LORD of hosts: The oppressed sons of Israel and sons of Judah together, and all their captors have held fast to them; they have refused to send them away. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts—his name—will contend; he will contend for their legal dispute, in order to give rest to the land and make the inhabitants of Babylon tremble. 35 Sword against the Chaldeans—oracle of the LORD—and against those dwelling in Babel and against its chiefs and against its wise ones. 36 Cut off to the babblers and they will be deceived; cut off to her mighty ones and they will be dismayed. 37 A sword against his horses and against his chariot and against all the mixed multitude in her midst, and they will become women. A sword against her treasuries, and they will be plundered. 38 A sword against its waters, and they dry up, for it is a land of cultic idols, and they boast in terrors. 39 Therefore wildcats will dwell with island demons, and daughters of ostriches will dwell in her, but you will not dwell there again forever, nor will you dwell until generation and generation. 40 As the overthrow by God of Sodom and of Gomorrah and of its neighbors, utterance of the LORD, no man will dwell there and no son of man will sojourn in it. 41 Look, a people comes from the north, and a great nation and many kings—they rouse from the ends of the earth. 42 They will hold bow and javelin; they are cruel, and they will have no compassion. Their voice will roar like the sea, and they will ride on horses, arrayed like a man for warfare against you, daughter of Babel. 43 The king of Babel heard their report, and his hands grew slack; distress gripped him, might like a woman giving birth. 44 Behold, like a lion he will go up from the pride of the Jordan to the enduring pasture. For I will suddenly make them run from her. Who is the chosen one whom I will appoint over her? For who is like me, and who will appoint me, and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?