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they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Jehovah their God." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JER-50:5", "verseRef": "Jer.50.5", "text": "They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JER-50:6", "verseRef": "Jer.50.6", "text": "My 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." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JER-50:7", "verseRef": "Jer.50.7", "text": "All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JER-50:8", "verseRef": "Jer.50.8", "text": "Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JER-50:9", "verseRef": "Jer.50.9", "text": "For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company 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 an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JER-50:10", "verseRef": "Jer.50.10", "text": "And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JER-50:11", "verseRef": "Jer.50.11", "text": "Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JER-50:12", "verseRef": "Jer.50.12", "text": "your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JER-50:13", "verseRef": "Jer.50.13", "text": "Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JER-50:14", "verseRef": "Jer.50.14", "text": "Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against Jehovah." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JER-50:15", "verseRef": "Jer.50.15", "text": "Shout against her round about: she hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JER-50:16", "verseRef": "Jer.50.16", "text": "Cut 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." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JER-50:17", "verseRef": "Jer.50.17", "text": "Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JER-50:18", "verseRef": "Jer.50.18", "text": "Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JER-50:19", "verseRef": "Jer.50.19", "text": "And I will bring Israel again 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." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JER-50:20", "verseRef": "Jer.50.20", "text": "In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, 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." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JER-50:21", "verseRef": "Jer.50.21", "text": "Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JER-50:22", "verseRef": "Jer.50.22", "text": "A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JER-50:23", "verseRef": "Jer.50.23", "text": "How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JER-50:24", "verseRef": "Jer.50.24", "text": "I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JER-50:25", "verseRef": "Jer.50.25", "text": "Jehovah hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JER-50:26", "verseRef": "Jer.50.26", "text": "Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JER-50:27", "verseRef": "Jer.50.27", "text": "Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JER-50:28", "verseRef": "Jer.50.28", "text": "The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JER-50:29", "verseRef": "Jer.50.29", "text": "Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JER-50:30", "verseRef": "Jer.50.30", "text": "Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "JER-50:31", "verseRef": "Jer.50.31", "text": "Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "JER-50:32", "verseRef": "Jer.50.32", "text": "And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "JER-50:33", "verseRef": "Jer.50.33", "text": "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all that took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "JER-50:34", "verseRef": "Jer.50.34", "text": "Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "JER-50:35", "verseRef": "Jer.50.35", "text": "A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "JER-50:36", "verseRef": "Jer.50.36", "text": "A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed." },{ "n": 37, "refId": "JER-50:37", "verseRef": "Jer.50.37", "text": "A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed." },{ "n": 38, "refId": "JER-50:38", "verseRef": "Jer.50.38", "text": "A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols." },{ "n": 39, "refId": "JER-50:39", "verseRef": "Jer.50.39", "text": "Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation." },{ "n": 40, "refId": "JER-50:40", "verseRef": "Jer.50.40", "text": "As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein." },{ "n": 41, "refId": "JER-50:41", "verseRef": "Jer.50.41", "text": "Behold, a people cometh from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth." },{ "n": 42, "refId": "JER-50:42", "verseRef": "Jer.50.42", "text": "They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon." },{ "n": 43, "refId": "JER-50:43", "verseRef": "Jer.50.43", "text": "The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail." },{ "n": 44, "refId": "JER-50:44", "verseRef": "Jer.50.44", "text": "Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?" },{ "n": 45, "refId": "JER-50:45", "verseRef": "Jer.50.45", "text": "Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them." },{ "n": 46, "refId": "JER-50:46", "verseRef": "Jer.50.46", "text": "At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/chapters/50", "book": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/jeremiah/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }