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Jeremiah 22:19
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19 He will be buried like a donkey,(A)
dragged off and thrown
outside the gates of Jerusalem.

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19 He will have the burial(A) of a donkey—
    dragged away and thrown(B)
    outside the gates of Jerusalem.”

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Jeremiah 49:20-50:45
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20 Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman:(A) The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away,(B) and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them. 21 At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.(C) 22 Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.(D)

Prophecies against Damascus

23 About Damascus:(E)

Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,(F)
for they have heard a bad report and are agitated;
in the sea there is anxiety that cannot be calmed.
24 Damascus has become weak;
she has turned to run;
panic has gripped her.
Distress and labor pains have seized her
like a woman in labor.
25 How can the city of praise not be abandoned,(G)
the town that brings Me joy?
26 Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;
all the warriors will perish in that day.
This is the declaration of
the Lord of Hosts.(H)
27 I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;
it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.(I)

Prophecies against Kedar and Hazor

28 About Kedar(J) and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar,(K) Babylon’s king, defeated, this is what the Lord says:

Rise up, go against Kedar,
and destroy the people of the east!
29 They will take their tents and their flocks
along with their tent curtains and all their equipment.
They will take their camels for themselves.
They will call out to them:
Terror is on every side!(L)
30 Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,
residents of Hazor—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has drawn up a plan against you;
he has devised a strategy against you.

31 Rise up, go up against a nation at ease,
one living in security.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
They have no doors, not even a gate bar;
they live alone.(M)
32 Their camels will become plunder,
and their massive herds of cattle will become spoil.(N)
I will scatter them to the wind in every direction,
those who shave their temples;
I will bring calamity on them across all their borders.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
33 Hazor will become a jackals’ den,(O)
a desolation forever.
No one will live there;
no human being will even stay in it as a temporary resident.(P)

Prophecies against Elam

34 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam[a] at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.(Q) 35 This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

I am about to shatter Elam’s bow,(R)
the source[b] of their might.
36 I will bring the four winds against Elam
from the four corners of the heavens,
and I will scatter them to all these winds.
There will not be a nation
to which Elam’s banished ones will not go.
37 I will devastate Elam before their enemies,
before those who want to take their lives.
I will bring disaster on them,
My burning anger.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will send the sword after them(S)
until I finish them off.
38 I will set My throne in Elam,
and I will destroy the king and officials from there.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

39 In the last days,
I will restore the fortunes[c] of Elam.(T)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Prophecies against Babylon

50 The word the Lord spoke about Babylon,(U) the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:

2 Announce to the nations;
proclaim and raise up a signal flag;(V)
proclaim, and hide nothing.
Say: Babylon is captured;
Bel(W) is put to shame;
Marduk is devastated;
her idols are put to shame;
her false gods, devastated.
3 For a nation from the north will come against her;(X)
it will make her land desolate.
No one will be living in it—
both man and beast will escape.[d]
4 In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
the Israelites and Judeans will come together,
weeping as they come,
and will seek the Lord their God.(Y)
5 They will ask about Zion,
turning their faces to this road.
They will come and join themselves[e] to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant(Z) that will never be forgotten.

6 My people are lost sheep;(AA)
their shepherds have led them astray,
guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.(AB)
They have wandered from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place.
7 All who found them devoured them.
Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;
instead, they have sinned against the Lord,
their righteous grazing land,(AC)
the hope of their ancestors,(AD) the Lord.”

8 Escape from Babylon;(AE)
depart from the Chaldeans’ land.
Be like the rams that lead the flock.
9 For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the north country.
They will line up in battle formation against her;
from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like those of a skilled[f] warrior
who does not return empty-handed.
10 The Chaldeans will become plunder;
all Babylon’s plunderers will be fully satisfied.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
11 Because you rejoice,
because you sing in triumph—
you who plundered My inheritance—
because you frolic like a young cow treading grain
and neigh like stallions,(AF)
12 your mother will be utterly humiliated;
she who bore you will be put to shame.
Look! She will lag behind all[g] the nations—
a dry land, a wilderness,(AG) an Arabah.
13 Because of the Lord’s wrath,
she will not be inhabited;
she will become a desolation, every bit of her.
Everyone who passes through Babylon
will be horrified
and scoff because of all her wounds.(AH)
14 Line up in battle formation around Babylon,
all you archers!
Shoot at her! Do not spare an arrow,
for she has sinned against the Lord.
15 Raise a war cry against her on every side!
She has thrown up her hands in surrender;
her defense towers have fallen;
her walls are demolished.(AI)
Since this is the Lord’s vengeance,(AJ)
take out your vengeance on her;
as she has done, do the same to her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon
as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time.
Because of the oppressor’s sword,(AK)
each will turn to his own people,(AL)
each will flee to his own land.

The Return of God’s People

17 Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions.(AM)
The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria;
the last one who crushed his bones
was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.(AN)

18 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to punish the king of Babylon(AO) and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.

19 I will return Israel to his grazing land,
and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan;
he will be satisfied
in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.(AP)
20 In those days and at that time—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
one will search for Israel’s guilt,
but there will be none,
and for Judah’s sins,
but they will not be found,
for I will forgive(AQ) those I leave as a remnant.(AR)

The Invasion of Babylon

21 “Go against the land of Merathaim,
and against those living in Pekod.
Put them to the sword;
completely destroy them—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
do everything I have commanded you.(AS)
22 The sound of war is in the land(AT)—
a great destruction.
23 How the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and smashed!
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!(AU)
24 Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught,(AV)
but you did not even know it.
You were found and captured
because you fought against the Lord.
25 The Lord opened His armory
and brought out His weapons of wrath,(AW)
because it is a task of the Lord God of Hosts
in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the most distant places.[h]
Open her granaries;
pile her up like mounds of grain
and completely destroy her.
Leave her no survivors.
27 Put all her young bulls to the sword;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, because their day has come,
the time of their punishment.(AX)

The Humiliation of Babylon

28 “There is a voice of fugitives and those who escape
from the land of Babylon
announcing in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
the vengeance for His temple.(AY)
29 Summon the archers to Babylon,
all who string the bow;
camp all around her; let none escape.
Repay her according to her deeds;(AZ)
just as she has done, do the same to her,
for she has acted arrogantly against the Lord,
against the Holy One of Israel.(BA)
30 Therefore, her young men will fall
in her public squares;
all the warriors will perish in that day.
This is the Lord’s declaration.(BB)
31 Look, I am against you, you arrogant one—
this is the declaration of
the Lord God of Hosts—
because your day has come,
the time when I will punish you.
32 The arrogant will stumble and fall
with no one to pick him up.
I will set fire to his cities,
and it will consume everything around him.”(BC)

The Desolation of Babylon

33 This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed.
All their captors hold them fast;(BD)
they refuse to release them.
34 Their Redeemer is strong;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
He will fervently plead their case(BE)
so that He might bring rest to the earth
but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.(BF)
35 A sword is over the Chaldeans—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
against those who live in Babylon,
against her officials, and against her sages.
36 A sword is against the diviners,
and they will act foolishly.
A sword is against her heroic warriors,
and they will be terrified.
37 A sword is against his horses and chariots
and against all the foreigners among them,(BG)
and they will be like women.(BH)
A sword is against her treasuries,
and they will be plundered.
38 A drought will come on her waters,
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.[i](BI)

39 Therefore, desert creatures[j] will live with hyenas,
and ostriches will also live in her.
It will never again be inhabited
or lived in through all generations.(BJ)
40 Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah
and their neighboring towns(BK)—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
so no one will live there;
no human being will even stay in it
as a temporary resident.(BL)

The Conquest of Babylon

41 Look! A people comes from the north.
A great nation and many kings will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.(BM)
42 They grasp bow and javelin.
They are cruel and show no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea,(BN)
and they ride on horses,
lined up like men in battle formation
against you, Daughter Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard reports about them,
and his hands fall helpless.
Distress has seized him—
pain, like a woman in labor.(BO)

44 “Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets[k](BP) of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. Indeed, I will chase Babylon[l] away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like Me? Who will summon Me? Who is the shepherd who can stand against Me?”

45 Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Certainly the flock’s little lambs will be dragged away; certainly the grazing land will be made desolate because of them.

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:34 = modern Iran
  2. Jeremiah 49:35 Lit first
  3. Jeremiah 49:39 Or will end the captivity
  4. Jeremiah 50:3 Lit escape; they will walk
  5. Jeremiah 50:5 LXX; MT reads Come and join yourselves
  6. Jeremiah 50:9 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read bereaving
  7. Jeremiah 50:12 Lit Look! The last of
  8. Jeremiah 50:26 Lit from the end
  9. Jeremiah 50:38 Or of dreaded gods
  10. Jeremiah 50:39 Or desert demons
  11. Jeremiah 50:44 Lit pride
  12. Jeremiah 50:44 Lit them
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20 Therefore, hear what the Lord has planned against Edom,(A)
    what he has purposed(B) against those who live in Teman:(C)
The young of the flock(D) will be dragged away;
    their pasture will be appalled at their fate.(E)
21 At the sound of their fall the earth will tremble;(F)
    their cry(G) will resound to the Red Sea.[a]
22 Look! An eagle will soar and swoop(H) down,
    spreading its wings over Bozrah.(I)
In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors(J)
    will be like the heart of a woman in labor.(K)

A Message About Damascus

23 Concerning Damascus:(L)

“Hamath(M) and Arpad(N) are dismayed,
    for they have heard bad news.
They are disheartened,
    troubled like[b] the restless sea.(O)
24 Damascus has become feeble,
    she has turned to flee
    and panic has gripped her;
anguish and pain have seized her,
    pain like that of a woman in labor.(P)
25 Why has the city of renown not been abandoned,
    the town in which I delight?
26 Surely, her young men(Q) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced(R) in that day,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
27 “I will set fire(S) to the walls of Damascus;(T)
    it will consume(U) the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.(V)”

A Message About Kedar and Hazor

28 Concerning Kedar(W) and the kingdoms of Hazor,(X) which Nebuchadnezzar(Y) king of Babylon attacked:

This is what the Lord says:

“Arise, and attack Kedar
    and destroy the people of the East.(Z)
29 Their tents and their flocks(AA) will be taken;
    their shelters will be carried off
    with all their goods and camels.
People will shout to them,
    ‘Terror(AB) on every side!’

30 “Flee quickly away!
    Stay in deep caves,(AC) you who live in Hazor,(AD)”
declares the Lord.
“Nebuchadnezzar(AE) king of Babylon has plotted against you;
    he has devised a plan against you.

31 “Arise and attack a nation at ease,
    which lives in confidence,”
declares the Lord,
“a nation that has neither gates nor bars;(AF)
    its people live far from danger.
32 Their camels(AG) will become plunder,
    and their large herds(AH) will be spoils of war.
I will scatter to the winds(AI) those who are in distant places[c](AJ)
    and will bring disaster on them from every side,”
declares the Lord.
33 “Hazor(AK) will become a haunt of jackals,(AL)
    a desolate(AM) place forever.
No one will live there;
    no people will dwell(AN) in it.”

A Message About Elam

34 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam,(AO) early in the reign of Zedekiah(AP) king of Judah:

35 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“See, I will break the bow(AQ) of Elam,
    the mainstay of their might.
36 I will bring against Elam the four winds(AR)
    from the four quarters of heaven;(AS)
I will scatter them to the four winds,
    and there will not be a nation
    where Elam’s exiles do not go.
37 I will shatter Elam before their foes,
    before those who want to kill them;
I will bring disaster on them,
    even my fierce anger,”(AT)
declares the Lord.
“I will pursue them with the sword(AU)
    until I have made an end of them.
38 I will set my throne in Elam
    and destroy her king and officials,”
declares the Lord.

39 “Yet I will restore(AV) the fortunes of Elam
    in days to come,”
declares the Lord.

A Message About Babylon(AW)

50 This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon(AX) and the land of the Babylonians[d]:

2 “Announce and proclaim(AY) among the nations,
    lift up a banner(AZ) and proclaim it;
    keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;(BA)
    Bel(BB) will be put to shame,(BC)
    Marduk(BD) filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
    and her idols(BE) filled with terror.’
3 A nation from the north(BF) will attack her
    and lay waste her land.
No one will live(BG) in it;
    both people and animals(BH) will flee away.

4 “In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together(BI)
    will go in tears(BJ) to seek(BK) the Lord their God.
5 They will ask the way(BL) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come(BM) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant(BN)
    that will not be forgotten.

6 “My people have been lost sheep;(BO)
    their shepherds(BP) have led them astray(BQ)
    and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill(BR)
    and forgot their own resting place.(BS)
7 Whoever found them devoured(BT) them;
    their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,(BU)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
    the Lord, the hope(BV) of their ancestors.’

8 “Flee(BW) out of Babylon;(BX)
    leave the land of the Babylonians,
    and be like the goats that lead the flock.
9 For I will stir(BY) up and bring against Babylon
    an alliance of great nations(BZ) from the land of the north.(CA)
They will take up their positions against her,
    and from the north she will be captured.(CB)
Their arrows(CC) will be like skilled warriors
    who do not return empty-handed.
10 So Babylonia[e] will be plundered;(CD)
    all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.

11 “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,(CE)
because you frolic like a heifer(CF) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,
12 your mother will be greatly ashamed;
    she who gave you birth will be disgraced.(CG)
She will be the least of the nations—
    a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.(CH)
13 Because of the Lord’s anger she will not be inhabited
    but will be completely desolate.(CI)
All who pass Babylon will be appalled;(CJ)
    they will scoff(CK) because of all her wounds.(CL)

14 “Take up your positions around Babylon,
    all you who draw the bow.(CM)
Shoot at her! Spare no arrows,(CN)
    for she has sinned against the Lord.
15 Shout(CO) against her on every side!
    She surrenders, her towers fall,
    her walls(CP) are torn down.
Since this is the vengeance(CQ) of the Lord,
    take vengeance on her;
    do to her(CR) as she has done to others.(CS)
16 Cut off from Babylon the sower,
    and the reaper with his sickle at harvest.
Because of the sword(CT) of the oppressor
    let everyone return to their own people,(CU)
    let everyone flee to their own land.(CV)

17 “Israel is a scattered flock(CW)
    that lions(CX) have chased away.
The first to devour(CY) them
    was the king(CZ) of Assyria;
the last to crush their bones(DA)
    was Nebuchadnezzar(DB) king(DC) of Babylon.”

18 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:

“I will punish the king of Babylon and his land
    as I punished the king(DD) of Assyria.(DE)
19 But I will bring(DF) Israel back to their own pasture,
    and they will graze on Carmel and Bashan;
their appetite will be satisfied(DG)
    on the hills(DH) of Ephraim and Gilead.(DI)
20 In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“search will be made for Israel’s guilt,
    but there will be none,(DJ)
and for the sins(DK) of Judah,
    but none will be found,
    for I will forgive(DL) the remnant(DM) I spare.

21 “Attack the land of Merathaim
    and those who live in Pekod.(DN)
Pursue, kill and completely destroy[f] them,”
declares the Lord.
    “Do everything I have commanded you.
22 The noise(DO) of battle is in the land,
    the noise of great destruction!
23 How broken and shattered
    is the hammer(DP) of the whole earth!(DQ)
How desolate(DR) is Babylon
    among the nations!
24 I set a trap(DS) for you, Babylon,
    and you were caught before you knew it;
you were found and captured(DT)
    because you opposed(DU) the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his arsenal
    and brought out the weapons(DV) of his wrath,
for the Sovereign Lord Almighty has work to do
    in the land of the Babylonians.(DW)
26 Come against her from afar.(DX)
    Break open her granaries;
    pile her up like heaps of grain.(DY)
Completely destroy(DZ) her
    and leave her no remnant.
27 Kill all her young bulls;(EA)
    let them go down to the slaughter!(EB)
Woe to them! For their day(EC) has come,
    the time(ED) for them to be punished.
28 Listen to the fugitives(EE) and refugees from Babylon
    declaring in Zion(EF)
how the Lord our God has taken vengeance,(EG)
    vengeance for his temple.(EH)

29 “Summon archers against Babylon,
    all those who draw the bow.(EI)
Encamp all around her;
    let no one escape.(EJ)
Repay(EK) her for her deeds;(EL)
    do to her as she has done.
For she has defied(EM) the Lord,
    the Holy One(EN) of Israel.
30 Therefore, her young men(EO) will fall in the streets;
    all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”
declares the Lord.
31 “See, I am against(EP) you, you arrogant one,”
    declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
“for your day(EQ) has come,
    the time for you to be punished.
32 The arrogant(ER) one will stumble and fall(ES)
    and no one will help her up;(ET)
I will kindle a fire(EU) in her towns
    that will consume all who are around her.”

33 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“The people of Israel are oppressed,(EV)
    and the people of Judah as well.
All their captors hold them fast,
    refusing to let them go.(EW)
34 Yet their Redeemer(EX) is strong;
    the Lord Almighty(EY) is his name.
He will vigorously defend their cause(EZ)
    so that he may bring rest(FA) to their land,
    but unrest to those who live in Babylon.

35 “A sword(FB) against the Babylonians!”(FC)
    declares the Lord—
“against those who live in Babylon
    and against her officials and wise(FD) men!
36 A sword against her false prophets!
    They will become fools.
A sword against her warriors!(FE)
    They will be filled with terror.(FF)
37 A sword against her horses and chariots(FG)
    and all the foreigners in her ranks!
    They will become weaklings.(FH)
A sword against her treasures!(FI)
    They will be plundered.
38 A drought on[g] her waters!(FJ)
    They will dry(FK) up.
For it is a land of idols,(FL)
    idols that will go mad with terror.

39 “So desert creatures(FM) and hyenas will live there,
    and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited
    or lived in from generation to generation.(FN)
40 As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah(FO)
    along with their neighboring towns,”
declares the Lord,
“so no one will live there;
    no people will dwell in it.(FP)

41 “Look! An army is coming from the north;(FQ)
    a great nation and many kings
    are being stirred(FR) up from the ends of the earth.(FS)
42 They are armed with bows(FT) and spears;
    they are cruel(FU) and without mercy.(FV)
They sound like the roaring sea(FW)
    as they ride on their horses;
they come like men in battle formation
    to attack you, Daughter Babylon.(FX)
43 The king of Babylon has heard reports about them,
    and his hands hang limp.(FY)
Anguish has gripped him,
    pain like that of a woman in labor.(FZ)
44 Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets(GA)
    to a rich pastureland,
I will chase Babylon from its land in an instant.
    Who is the chosen(GB) one I will appoint for this?
Who is like me and who can challenge me?(GC)
    And what shepherd can stand against me?”

45 Therefore, hear what the Lord has planned against Babylon,
    what he has purposed(GD) against the land of the Babylonians:(GE)
The young of the flock will be dragged away;
    their pasture will be appalled at their fate.

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:21 Or the Sea of Reeds
  2. Jeremiah 49:23 Hebrew on or by
  3. Jeremiah 49:32 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads
  4. Jeremiah 50:1 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 8, 25, 35 and 45
  5. Jeremiah 50:10 Or Chaldea
  6. Jeremiah 50:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.
  7. Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against
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