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JEREMIAH
50.22
- And be as the he-goats before the flocks.
- 9For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon
- An assembly of great nations from the north country;
- And they shall set themselves in array against her,
- From thence she shall be taken;
- Their arrows shall be as of a mighty man that maketh childless;
- None shall return in vain.
- 10And Chaldea shall be a spoil;
- All that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.
- 11Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice,
- O ye that plunder My heritage,
- Because ye gambol as a heifer at grass,
- And neigh as strong horses;
- 12Your mother shall be sore ashamed,
- She that bore you shall be confounded;
- Behold, the hindermost of the nations
- Shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- 13Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited,
- But it shall be wholly desolate;
- Every one that goeth by Babylon
- Shall be appalled and hiss at all her plagues.
- 14Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about,
- All ye that bend the bow,
- Shoot at her, spare no arrows;
- For she hath sinned against the Lord.
- 15Shout against her round about, she hath submitted herself;
- Her buttresses are fallen, her walls are thrown down;
- For it is the vengeance of the Lord, take vengeance upon her;
- As she hath done, do unto her.
- 16Cut off the sower from Babylon,
- And him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest;
- For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people,
- And they shall flee every one to his own land.
- 17Israel is a scattered sheep,
- The lions have driven him away;
- First the king of Assyria hath devoured him,
- And last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
- 18Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
- Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,
- As I have punished the king of Assyria.
- 19And I will bring Israel back to his pasture,
- And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,
- And his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
- 20In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord,
- The iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none,
- And the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found;
- For I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
- 21Go up against the land of [1]Merathaim, even against it,
- And against the inhabitants of [2]Pekod;
- Waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord,
- And do according to all that I have commanded thee.
- 22Hark! battle is in the land,
- And great destruction.
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