Berean Standard Bible

Jeremiah 50:1-19

1This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:1

2“Announce and declare to the nations;lift up a banner and proclaim it;hold nothing back when you say,‘Babylon is captured;Bel is put to shame;Marduk is shattered,her images are disgraced,her idols are broken in pieces.’

3For a nation from the north will come against her;it will make her land a desolation.No one will live in it;both man and beast will flee.”

4“In those days and at that time,declares the LORD,the children of Israel and the children of Judahwill come together, weeping as they come,and will seek the LORD their God.5They will ask the way to Zionand turn their faces toward it.They will come and join themselves to the LORDin an everlasting covenantthat will never be forgotten.

6My people are lost sheep;their shepherds have led them astray,causing them to roam the mountains.They have wandered from mountain to hill;they have forgotten their resting place.7All who found them devoured them,and their enemies said,‘We are not guilty,for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture,the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’

8Flee from the midst of Babylon;depart from the land of the Chaldeans;be like the he-goats that lead the flock.9For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylonan assembly of great nations from the land of the north.They will line up against her;from the north she will be captured.Their arrows will be like skilled warriorswho do not return empty-handed.10Chaldea2 will be plundered;all who plunder her will have their fill,”declares the LORD.

11“Because you rejoice,because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grainand neigh like stallions,12your mother will be greatly ashamed;she who bore you will be disgraced.Behold, she will be the least of the nations,a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

13Because of the wrath of the LORD,she will not be inhabited;she will become completely desolate.All who pass through Babylon will be horrifiedand will hiss at all her wounds.

14Line up in formation around Babylon,all you who draw the bow!Shoot at her! Spare no arrows!For she has sinned against the LORD.15Raise a war cry against her on every side!She has thrown up her hands in surrender;her towers have fallen;her walls are torn down.

Since this is the vengeance of the LORD,take out your vengeance upon her;as she has done,do the same to her.16Cut off the sower from Babylon,and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time.In the face of the oppressor’s sword,each will turn to his own people,each will flee to his own land.

17Israel is a scattered flock,chased away by lions.The first to devour himwas the king of Assyria;the last to crush his boneswas Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

18Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:

“I will punish the king of Babylon and his landas I punished the king of Assyria.19I will return Israel to his pasture,and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan;his soul will be satisfiedon the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.

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1. Jeremiah 50:1 That is, the Babylonians; also in verses 8, 25, 35, and 45 ↩
2. Jeremiah 50:10 Or Babylonia ↩

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