Jeremiah Chapter 50

• Jeremiah 50:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 50:2
  The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
• Jeremiah 50:3
  “Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal; say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach...
• Jeremiah 50:4
  For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, bot...
• Jeremiah 50:5
  “In those days, and in that time,” says the LORD, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their wa...
• Jeremiah 50:6
  They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that wi...
• Jeremiah 50:7
  My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mounta...
• Jeremiah 50:8
  All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righte...
• Jeremiah 50:9
  “Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
• Jeremiah 50:10
  For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in ar...
• Jeremiah 50:11
  Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 50:12
  “Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as ...
• Jeremiah 50:13
  your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land,...
• Jeremiah 50:14
  Because of the LORD’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all ...
• Jeremiah 50:15
  Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.
• Jeremiah 50:16
  Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the LOR...
• Jeremiah 50:17
  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to thei...
• Jeremiah 50:18
  “Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has...
• Jeremiah 50:19
  Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria...
• Jeremiah 50:20
  I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan. His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
• Jeremiah 50:21
  In those days, and in that time,” says the LORD, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none, also the sins of Judah, and they ...
• Jeremiah 50:22
  “Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says the LORD, “and...
• Jeremiah 50:23
  A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
• Jeremiah 50:24
  How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
• Jeremiah 50:25
  I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against t...
• Jeremiah 50:26
  The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, GOD of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the C...
• Jeremiah 50:27
  Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.
• Jeremiah 50:28
  Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
• Jeremiah 50:29
  Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
• Jeremiah 50:30
  “Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according t...
• Jeremiah 50:31
  Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says the LORD.
• Jeremiah 50:32
  “Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
• Jeremiah 50:33
  The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”
• Jeremiah 50:34
  The LORD of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refu...
• Jeremiah 50:35
  Their Redeemer is strong. The LORD of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the i...
• Jeremiah 50:36
  “A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says the LORD, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men.
• Jeremiah 50:37
  A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
• Jeremiah 50:38
  A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on ...
• Jeremiah 50:39
  A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
• Jeremiah 50:40
  Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein. It will be inhabited no more forever, nei...
• Jeremiah 50:41
  As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says the LORD, “so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therei...
• Jeremiah 50:42
  “Behold, a people comes from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
• Jeremiah 50:43
  They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to...
• Jeremiah 50:44
  The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.
• Jeremiah 50:45
  Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from ...
• Jeremiah 50:46
  Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Sur...
• Jeremiah 50:47
  The earth trembles at the noise of the taking of Babylon. The cry is heard among the nations.