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Indeed, I’m going to stir up
    and bring against Babylon
a great company of nations
    from the land of the north.
They’ll deploy for battle against her,
    and from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like a skilled warrior;
    they won’t miss their targets.[a]
10 The Chaldeans will become plunder,
    and all who plunder them will get more than enough,”
        declares the Lord.

11 “Though you rejoice, though you exult,
    you plunderers of my inheritance,
though you skip around like a heifer in the grass[b]
    and neigh like stallions,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:9 Lit. won’t return empty-handed
  2. Jeremiah 50:11 So LXX; MT reads like a threshing heifer