38 A [a](A)drought on her waters, and they will be dried up!
For it is a land of (B)idols,
And they go insane at frightful images.

39 “Therefore the (C)desert creatures will live there with the jackals;
The ostriches also will live in it.
It will (D)never again be inhabited
Nor lived in from generation to generation.
40 As when God overthrew (E)Sodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the Lord,
“No one will live there,
Nor will [b]anyone of mankind reside in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:38 Another reading is sword
  2. Jeremiah 50:40 Lit a son of man

38 A drought on[a] her waters!(A)
    They will dry(B) up.
For it is a land of idols,(C)
    idols that will go mad with terror.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against