Jeremiah 50:21-46 - Heartlight

²¹Go up against the land of Merathaim,

and against the residents of Pekod.

Kill them and devote them to destruction.

Do all that I have commanded you,”

²²“The noise of battle is in the land—

the noise of great destruction.

²³How the hammer of the whole earth

lies broken and shattered!

What a horror Babylon has become

among the nations!

²⁴I laid a snare for you, O Babylon,

and you were caught before you knew it.

You were found and captured

because you challenged the LORD.

²⁵The LORD has opened His armory

and brought out His weapons of wrath,

for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts

in the land of the Chaldeans.

²⁶Come against her

from the farthest border.

Break open her granaries;

pile her up like mounds of grain.

Devote her to destruction;

leave her no survivors.

²⁷Kill all her young bulls;

let them go down to the slaughter.

Woe to them, for their day has come —

the time of their punishment.

²⁸Listen to the fugitives and refugees

from the land of Babylon,

declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,

the vengeance for His temple.

²⁹Summon the archers against Babylon,

all who string the bow.

Encamp all around her;

let no one escape.

Repay her according to her deeds;

do to her as she has done.

For she has defied the LORD,

the Holy One of Israel.

³⁰Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets,

and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,”

³¹“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,”

declares the Lord GOD of Hosts,

“for your day has come,

the time when I will punish you.

³²The arrogant one will stumble and fall

with no one to pick him up.

And I will kindle a fire in his cities

to consume all those around him.”

³³This is what the LORD of Hosts says:

“The sons of Israel are oppressed,

and the sons of Judah as well.

All their captors hold them fast,

refusing to release them.

³⁴Their Redeemer is strong;

the LORD of Hosts is His name.

He will fervently plead their case

so that He may bring rest to the earth,

but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

³⁵A sword is against the Chaldeans,

declares the LORD,

against those who live in Babylon,

and against her officials and wise men.

³⁶A sword is against her false prophets,

and they will become fools.

A sword is against her warriors,

and they will be filled with terror.

³⁷A sword is against her horses and chariots

and against all the foreigners in her midst,

and they will become like women.

A sword is against her treasuries,

and they will be plundered.

³⁸A drought is upon her waters,

and they will be dried up.

For it is a land of graven images,

and the people go mad over idols.

³⁹So the desert creatures and hyenas will live there

and ostriches will dwell there.

It will never again be inhabited

or lived in from generation to generation.

⁴⁰As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah

along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD,

“no one will dwell there;

no man will abide there.

⁴¹Behold, an army is coming from the north;

a great nation and many kings are stirred up

from the ends of the earth.

⁴²They grasp the bow and spear;

they are cruel and merciless.

Their voice roars like the sea,

and they ride upon horses,

lined up like men in formation

against you, O Daughter of Babylon.

⁴³The king of Babylon has heard the report,

and his hands hang limp.

Anguish has gripped him,

pain like that of a woman in labor.

⁴⁴Behold, one will come up like a lion

from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture.

For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land.

Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this?

For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me?

What shepherd can stand against Me?”

⁴⁵Therefore hear the plans

that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon

and the strategies He has devised

against the land of the Chaldeans:

Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away;

certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

⁴⁶At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake;

a cry will be heard among the nations.

— Jeremiah 50:21-46

(BSB)

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