10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her, [a]shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.

11 Because you were glad and rejoiced in destroying mine heritage, and because ye are grown fat, as the calves in the grass, [b]and neighed like strong horses,

12 Therefore your mother shall be sore confounded, and she that bare you shall be ashamed, behold, the uttermost of the nations shall be a desert, a dry land, and a wilderness.

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  1. Jeremiah 50:10 Shall be made rich thereby.
  2. Jeremiah 50:11 For joy of the victory, that ye had against my people.

10 So Babylonia[a] will be plundered;(A)
    all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.

11 “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,(B)
because you frolic like a heifer(C) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,
12 your mother will be greatly ashamed;
    she who gave you birth will be disgraced.(D)
She will be the least of the nations—
    a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.(E)

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  1. Jeremiah 50:10 Or Chaldea