24 Therefore I will (A)scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert (B)wind.

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24 “I will scatter you like chaff(A)
    driven by the desert wind.(B)

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Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

51 This is what the Lord says:

“Behold, I am going to stir up
[a]The (A)spirit of a destroyer against Babylon
And against the inhabitants of [b]Leb-kamai.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:1 Or a destroying wind
  2. Jeremiah 51:1 Cryptic name for Chaldea; or the heart of those who rise up against Me

51 This is what the Lord says:

“See, I will stir(A) up the spirit of a destroyer
    against Babylon(B) and the people of Leb Kamai.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:1 Leb Kamai is a cryptogram for Chaldea, that is, Babylonia.

10 Behold, though it is planted, will it thrive? Will it not (A)completely wither as soon as the east wind strikes it—wither on the beds where it grew?”’”

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10 It has been planted,(A) but will it thrive? Will it not wither completely when the east wind strikes it—wither away in the plot where it grew?(B)’”

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15 Though he (A)flourishes among the [a]reeds,
An (B)east wind will come,
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will (C)become dry
And his spring will dry up;
It will (D)plunder his treasury of every precious article.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:15 Another reading is brothers

15     even though he thrives(A) among his brothers.
An east wind(B) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.(C)
His storehouse will be plundered(D)
    of all its treasures.

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