Jeremiah 50

1The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.Cross-references: Gen 10:10 · Gen 11:31 · 2Sam 23:2 · Job 1:17 · Ps 137:8 · Isa 13:1 · +11 more

2“Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal; say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’Cross-references: Ps 64:9 · Ps 96:3 · Isa 12:4 · Isa 13:2 · Isa 21:9 · Isa 37:19 · +19 more

3For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal.Cross-references: Gen 6:7 · Ex 12:12 · Isa 13:5 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 14:22 · Jer 7:20 · +12 more

4“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.Cross-references: Ezra 3:12 · Ps 105:4 · Ps 126:4 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 14:1 · Isa 45:19 · +21 more

5They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · 2Sam 23:5 · 1Ki 19:10 · 1Ki 19:14 · Ps 25:8 · Ps 84:7 · +12 more

6My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.Cross-references: Ps 23:2 · Ps 32:7 · Ps 90:1 · Ps 91:1 · Ps 116:7 · Ps 119:176 · +23 more

7All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’Cross-references: Ps 22:4 · Ps 79:7 · Ps 90:1 · Ps 91:1 · Isa 9:12 · Isa 47:6 · +13 more

8“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.Cross-references: Num 16:26 · Prov 30:31 · Isa 48:20 · Isa 52:1 · Jer 51:6 · Jer 51:45 · +3 more

9For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain.Cross-references: 2Sam 1:22 · Ezra 1:1 · Isa 13:2 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 21:2 · Isa 41:25 · +11 more

10Chaldea will be a prey. All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 33:4 · Isa 33:23 · Isa 45:3 · Jer 25:12 · Jer 27:7 · Rev 17:16

11“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses,Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Ps 22:12 · Ps 74:2 · Ps 79:1 · Ps 83:1 · Prov 17:5 · +20 more

12your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.Cross-references: Isa 13:20 · Isa 14:22 · Isa 23:13 · Jer 25:12 · Jer 25:26 · Jer 49:2 · +7 more

13Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.Cross-references: Job 27:23 · Isa 14:4 · Jer 18:16 · Jer 19:8 · Jer 25:12 · Jer 49:17 · +5 more

14Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:20 · 2Sam 10:9 · Ps 51:4 · Isa 5:28 · Isa 13:4 · Isa 13:17 · +13 more

15Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Deut 32:41 · Deut 32:43 · Josh 6:5 · Josh 6:20 · Judg 1:6 · +33 more

16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest. For fear of the oppressing sword, they will each return to their own people, and they will each flee to their own land.Cross-references: Isa 13:14 · Jer 25:38 · Jer 46:16 · Jer 51:9 · Jer 51:23 · Joel 1:11 · +1 more

17“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”Cross-references: 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 18:9 · 2Ki 24:1 · 2Chr 28:20 · 2Chr 32:1 · +25 more

18Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.Cross-references: Isa 10:12 · Isa 37:36 · Ezek 31:3 · Nah 1:1 · Zeph 2:13

19I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan. His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.Cross-references: Num 32:1 · Josh 17:15 · Song 6:5 · Isa 33:9 · Isa 35:2 · Isa 65:9 · +23 more

20In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none, also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.Cross-references: Num 23:21 · Ps 103:12 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 11:1 · Isa 43:25 · Isa 44:22 · +15 more

21“Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says Yahweh, “and do according to all that I have commanded you.Cross-references: Num 31:14 · 1Sam 15:3 · 1Sam 15:11 · 2Sam 16:11 · 2Ki 18:25 · 2Chr 36:23 · +9 more

22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.Cross-references: Isa 21:2 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 51:54

23How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!Cross-references: Isa 14:4 · Isa 14:12 · Jer 51:20 · Rev 18:16

24I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · Job 9:4 · Job 40:2 · Job 40:9 · Eccl 9:12 · Isa 13:11 · +8 more

25Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.Cross-references: Ps 45:3 · Ps 45:5 · Isa 13:2 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 14:22 · Isa 21:7 · +10 more

26Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.Cross-references: Isa 5:26 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 14:23 · Isa 25:10 · Isa 45:3 · Isa 63:3 · +12 more

27Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.Cross-references: Ps 22:12 · Ps 37:13 · Isa 34:7 · Jer 27:7 · Jer 46:21 · Jer 48:44 · +8 more

28Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.Cross-references: Ps 149:6 · Isa 48:20 · Jer 50:15 · Jer 51:10 · Jer 51:50 · Lam 1:10 · +4 more

29“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · Ps 137:8 · Isa 14:13 · Isa 37:23 · Isa 47:10 · Jer 50:9 · +12 more

30Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 13:15 · Jer 9:21 · Jer 18:21 · Jer 48:15 · Jer 49:26 · Jer 50:36 · +4 more

31“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.Cross-references: Job 40:11 · Jer 21:13 · Jer 48:29 · Jer 49:16 · Jer 50:29 · Jer 50:32 · +12 more

32The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · Prov 16:18 · Prov 18:12 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 14:13 · Jer 21:14 · +14 more

33Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · Ex 8:2 · Ex 9:2 · Ex 9:17 · Isa 14:17 · Isa 47:6 · +9 more

34Their Redeemer is strong. Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.Cross-references: Ex 6:6 · Ps 35:1 · Ps 43:1 · Prov 22:23 · Prov 23:11 · Isa 14:3 · +15 more

35“A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men.Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · Isa 19:11 · Isa 29:14 · Isa 41:25 · Isa 44:25 · Isa 47:13 · +14 more

36A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:14 · 2Chr 25:16 · Isa 43:14 · Isa 44:25 · Isa 47:10 · +16 more

37A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed.Cross-references: Ps 20:7 · Ps 46:9 · Ps 76:6 · Isa 19:16 · Isa 45:3 · Jer 25:20 · +11 more

38A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.Cross-references: Isa 44:25 · Isa 44:27 · Isa 46:1 · Jer 50:2 · Jer 50:12 · Jer 51:7 · +11 more

39Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves will dwell there. The ostriches will dwell therein. It will be inhabited no more forever, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.Cross-references: Isa 13:20 · Isa 14:23 · Isa 34:11 · Jer 25:12 · Jer 50:12 · Jer 51:26 · +5 more

40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 13:19 · Jer 49:18 · Jer 51:26 · +8 more

41“Behold, a people comes from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.Cross-references: Isa 13:2 · Isa 13:17 · Jer 6:22 · Jer 25:14 · Jer 50:2 · Jer 50:9 · +4 more

42They take up bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.Cross-references: Ps 46:2 · Ps 46:6 · Ps 74:20 · Ps 137:8 · Isa 5:28 · Isa 5:30 · +11 more

43The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.Cross-references: Isa 13:6 · Isa 21:3 · Jer 49:22 · Jer 49:24 · Jer 51:31 · Dan 5:5

44Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it, for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · Num 16:5 · Job 41:10 · Ps 89:6 · Ps 89:8 · Isa 40:18 · +7 more

45Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they will drag them away, even the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.Cross-references: Ps 33:10 · Isa 14:24 · Isa 46:10 · Jer 37:10 · Jer 49:20 · Jer 51:10 · +3 more

46The earth trembles at the noise of the taking of Babylon. The cry is heard among the nations.Cross-references: Isa 14:9 · Jer 49:21 · Ezek 26:18 · Ezek 31:16 · Ezek 32:10 · Rev 18:9