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Jeremiah 51:1-2
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Jeremiah 51:1-2
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51 The Lord says,
“I will cause a powerful, destructive
wind to blow against Babylon and the Babylonians.[a]
2 I will send foreigners to winnow[b] Babylon,
and they will take everything from the city.
Armies will surround the city,
and there will be terrible destruction.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:1 Babylonians Literally, “Leb Kammai.” In Hebrew this was a secret way of writing “Chaldeans.”
- Jeremiah 51:2 winnow To separate grain from the hulls around it. Farmers threw the grain with the hulls into the air. The wind blew the hulls away and left the good grain.
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