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| Jeremiah 50:1 |
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The word that the LORD spake against Babylon
and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. |
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| Jeremiah 50:2 |
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Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and
set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,
Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken
in pieces. |
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| Jeremiah 50:3 |
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For out of the north there cometh up a nation
against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein:
they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. |
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| Jeremiah 50:4 |
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In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD,
the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going
and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. |
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| Jeremiah 50:5 |
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They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces
thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual
covenant that shall not be forgotten. |
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| Jeremiah 50:6 |
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My people hath 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 restingplace. |
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| Jeremiah 50:7 |
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All that found them have devoured them: and
their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD,
the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. |
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| Jeremiah 50:8 |
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Remove 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. |
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| Jeremiah 50:9 |
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For, lo, I will raise 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 expert man; none shall return in vain. |
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| Jeremiah 50:10 |
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And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil
her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 50:11 |
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Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O
ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass,
and bellow as bulls; |
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| Jeremiah 50:12 |
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Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that
bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness,
a dry land, and a desert. |
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| Jeremiah 50:13 |
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Because 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 astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. |
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| Jeremiah 50:14 |
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Put 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. |
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| Jeremiah 50:15 |
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Shout against her round about: she hath given
her hand: her foundations 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. |
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| Jeremiah 50:16 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 50:17 |
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Israel 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. |
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| Jeremiah 50:18 |
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Therefore 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. |
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| Jeremiah 50:19 |
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And I will bring Israel again to his habitation,
and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount
Ephraim and Gilead. |
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| Jeremiah 50:20 |
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In 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
reserve. |
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| Jeremiah 50:21 |
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Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against
it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them,
saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. |
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| Jeremiah 50:22 |
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A sound of battle is in the land, and of great
destruction. |
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| Jeremiah 50:23 |
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder
and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! |
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| Jeremiah 50:24 |
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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 the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 50:25 |
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The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought
forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of
hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. |
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| Jeremiah 50:26 |
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Come against her from the utmost border, open
her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of
her be left. |
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| Jeremiah 50:27 |
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Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to
the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. |
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| Jeremiah 50:28 |
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The voice of them that flee and escape out of
the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the
vengeance of his temple. |
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| Jeremiah 50:29 |
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Call together the archers against Babylon: all
ye that bend the bow, camp against it 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 the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. |
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| Jeremiah 50:30 |
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Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets,
and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 50:31 |
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Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud,
saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. |
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| Jeremiah 50:32 |
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And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and
none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall
devour all round about him. |
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| Jeremiah 50:33 |
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of
Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them
captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. |
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| Jeremiah 50:34 |
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Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts
is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the
land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. |
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| Jeremiah 50:35 |
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A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD,
and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. |
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| Jeremiah 50:36 |
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A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote:
a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. |
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| Jeremiah 50:37 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 50:38 |
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A drought is upon her waters; and they shall
be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their
idols. |
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| Jeremiah 50:39 |
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Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with
the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein:
and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation to generation. |
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| Jeremiah 50:40 |
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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the
neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither
shall any son of man dwell therein. |
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| Jeremiah 50:41 |
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Behold, a people shall come from the north,
and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. |
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| Jeremiah 50:42 |
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They shall hold the bow and the lance: they
are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they
shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against
thee, O daughter of Babylon. |
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| Jeremiah 50:43 |
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The king of Babylon hath heard the report of
them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a
woman in travail. |
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| Jeremiah 50:44 |
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Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the
swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly
run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who
is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will
stand before me? |
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| Jeremiah 50:45 |
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Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that
he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against
the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:
surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. |
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| Jeremiah 50:46 |
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At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth
is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. |
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