Jeremiah 50
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Jeremiah 50:21-29

21"Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the Lord, and do all that I have commanded you.

22The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!

23How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

24I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the Lord.

25The Lord has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

26Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her.

27Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

28"A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.

29"Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

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