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\v 1 This is the word that Yahweh declared about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet,
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\v 2 “Report to the nations and cause them to listen. Lift up a signal and cause them to listen. Do not conceal it.
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\q Say, ‘Babylon is taken. Bel is made ashamed. Merodach is dismayed. Its idols are put to shame; its images are dismayed.’
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\v 3 A nation from the north will arise against it, in order to make her land a desolation.
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\q No one, neither man or beast, will live in it. They will flee away.
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\v 4 In those days and at that time—this is Yahweh’s declaration—the people of Israel and the people of Judah
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\q will come together to go with weeping and seek Yahweh their God.
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\v 5 They will ask the way to Zion and will set off toward it.
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\q They will go and join themselves to Yahweh in an eternal covenant that will not be broken.
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\v 6 My people have been a lost flock. Their shepherds have led them astray in the mountains;
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\q they have turned them around from hill to hill. They went, they forgot the place where they had lived.
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\v 7 Everyone who went out to them devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty,
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\q because they sinned against Yahweh, their true home—Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.’
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\v 8 Leave from the midst of Babylon; go out from the land of the Chaldeans;
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\q be like male goats that leave before the rest of the flock does.
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\v 9 For see, I am about to set in motion and raise up an group of great nations from the north against Babylon.
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\q They will arrange themselves against her. Babylon will be captured from there.
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\q Their arrows are like a skilled soldier warrior; they do not return in vain.
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\v 10 Chaldea will become plunder. All those who plunder it will be satisfied—this is Yahweh’s declaration.
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\v 11 You rejoice, you celebrate the plundering of my inheritance;
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\q you jump around like a calf stamping in its pasture;
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\q you neigh like a powerful horse.
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\v 12 So your mother will be greatly ashamed; the one who bore you will be embarrassed.
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\q See, she will be the least of nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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\v 13 Because of Yahweh's anger, Babylon will not be inhabited, but will be a complete devastation.
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\q Everyone who passes by will shudder because of Babylon and will hiss because all of its wounds.
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\v 14 Arrange yourselves against Babylon all around her. Everyone who bends a bow must shoot at her.
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\q Do not keep back any of your arrows, for she has sinned against Yahweh.
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\v 15 Shout in victory against her all around her. She has surrendered her power; her towers have fallen.
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\q Her walls are torn down, for this is Yahweh's vengeance. Take vengeance on her!
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\q Do to her just as she had done to other nations!
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\v 16 Destroy both the sower and the one who uses a sickle at the time of harvest in Babylon.
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\q Let each person turn back to his own people from the oppressor's sword; let them flee to their own land.
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\v 17 Israel is a sheep scattered and driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him;
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\q then after this, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon broke his bones.
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\v 18 Therefore Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says this: See, I am about to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
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\v 19 I will restore Israel to his homeland; he will graze on Carmel and Bashan.
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\q Then he will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
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\v 20 In those days and at that time, says Yahweh, iniquity will be looked for in Israel,
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\q but none will be found. I will inquire about the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant that I spare."
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\v 21 "Arise against the land of Merathaim, against it and the ones inhabiting Pekod.
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\q Put them to the sword and set them apart for destruction—this is Yahweh’s declaration—do everything
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\q that I am commanding you.
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\v 22 The sounds of battle and enormous destruction are in the land.
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\v 23 How the hammer of all the lands has been cut apart and destroyed.
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\q How Babylon has become a horror among the nations.
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\v 24 I have set a trap for you. You were captured, Babylon, and you did not know it!
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\q You were found and seized, since you challenged me, Yahweh.
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\v 25 Yahweh has opened his armory and is bringing out the weapons for carrying out his anger.
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\q There is work for the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
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\v 26 Attack her from far away. Open her granaries and pile her up like heaps of grain.
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\q set her apart for destruction. Leave no remnant of her.
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\v 27 Kill all her bulls. Send them down to the place of slaughter.
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\q Woe to them, for their day has come—the time for their punishment.
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\v 28 There is the sound of those fleeing, of those who are survivors, from the land of Babylon.
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\q These will report the vengeance of Yahweh our God for Zion, and vengeance for his temple."
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\v 29 "Summon the archers against Babylon—all those who bend their bows.
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\q Camp against her, and let no one escape.
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\q Repay her for what she has done.
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\q Do to her by the measure she has used.
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\q For she had defied Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel.
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\v 30 So her young men will fall in the city squares, and all her fighting men will be destroyed on that day—this is Yahweh's declaration."
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\v 31 "See, I am against you, proud one—this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts—
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\q for your day has come, proud one, the time when I will punish you.
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\v 32 So the proud ones will stumble and fall. No one will raise them up.
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\q I will light a fire in their cities; it will devour everything around him.
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\v 33 Yahweh of hosts says this: The people of Israel are oppressed, together with the people of Judah.
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\q All the ones who captured them still hold them; they refuse to let them go.
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\v 34 The one who rescues them is strong. Yahweh of hosts is his name. He will truly plead their case,
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\q in order to bring rest to the land, and to bring strife to the ones inhabiting Babylon.
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\v 35 A sword is against the Chaldeans—this is Yahweh’s declaration—
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\q and against the inhabitants of Babylon, her leaders, and her wise men.
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\v 36 A sword is coming against those who say words for divination, so that they reveal themselves as fools.
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\q A sword is coming against her soldiers, so they will be filled with terror.
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\v 37 A sword is coming against their horses, their chariots and all of the people who are in the midst of Babylon,
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\q so they will become like women. A sword is coming against her storerooms, and they will be plundered.
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\v 38 A sword is coming against her waters, so they will become dry.
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\q For she is a land of worthless idols, and they act like people made insane by their dreadful idols.
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\v 39 So desert beasts with the jackals will inhabit there, and the young of ostriches will live in her.
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\q For all time, she will no longer be inhabited. From generation to generation, she will not be lived in.
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\v 40 Just as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors—this is Yahweh’s declaration—
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\q no one will live there; no person will stay in her."
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\v 41 "See, a people is coming from the north, for a great nation and many kings
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\q have been stirred up from a distant land.
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\v 42 They will pick up bows and spears. They are cruel and have no compassion.
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\q Their sound is like the sea roar, and they are riding on horses in formation as fighting men,
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\q against you, daughter of Babylon.
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\v 43 The king of Babylon has heard their report and his hands have fallen limp in distress.
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\q Anguish seizes him like a woman in labor.
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\v 44 Behold! He goes up like a lion from the heights of the Jordan to the enduring grazing place
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\q For I will quickly cause them to run from it, and I will put someone who will be chosen in charge of it.
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\q For who is like me, and who will summon me? What shepherd is able to resist me?
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\v 45 So listen to the plans that Yahweh has decided against Babylon,
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\q the plans that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. They will certainly be dragged away,
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\q even the smallest flock. Their pasturelands will be turned into ruined places.
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\v 46 At the sound of conquered Babylon the earth shakes, and their shout of distress is heard among the nations."
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