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

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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

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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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

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