Jeremiah 50:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹But I will bring Israel
    back to its own land.
The people will be like sheep
    eating their fill
on Mount Carmel
    and in Bashan,
in the hill country of Ephraim
    and in Gilead.
²⁰I will rescue a few people
    from Israel and Judah.
I will forgive them so completely
that their sin and guilt
    will disappear,
    never to be found.

The Lord's Commands to the Enemies of Babylonia

²¹The Lord said:

I have told
    the enemies of Babylonia,
“Attack the people of Merathaim
    and Pekod.^[a]
Kill them all!
    Destroy their possessions!”

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Footnotes

50.21 Merathaim … Pekod: Hebrew forms of two Babylonian names that refer to the land of Babylonia. Merathaim probably referred to lagoons near the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers or to the Persian Gulf, but in Hebrew it means “Twice as Rebellious.” Pekod referred to a tribe of southeastern Babylonia, but in Hebrew it means “Punishment.”