Jeremiah 50

The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

Her idols are dismayed.’

both man and animal.

and will seek Yahweh their God.

that will not be forgotten.’

They have forgotten their resting place.

even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

and be as the male goats before the flocks.

None of them will return in vain.

All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says Yahweh.

and neigh as strong horses;

a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

and hiss at all her plagues.

for she has sinned against Yahweh.

As she has done, do to her.

and they will each flee to their own land.

and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

as I have punished the king of Assyria.

His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

“and do according to all that I have commanded you.

and of great destruction.

How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

because you have fought against Yahweh.

for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

Let nothing of her be left.

the time of their visitation.

the vengeance of his temple.

against the Holy One of Israel.

All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.

the time that I will visit you.

and it will devour all who are around him.”

They refuse to let them go.

and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

and on her wise men.

and they will be dismayed.

and they will be robbed.

and they are mad over idols.

neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.

neither will any son of man live therein.

and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

against you, daughter of Babylon.

pains as of a woman in labor.

Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”

Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

and the cry is heard among the nations.