en-v0.1→en-v0.2-dev·#0202ef6ec845Contribute to en-v0.2

Jeremiah 50:1-46 — Message About Babylon

Jer.50.1-46

¹The message that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet . ²Declare among the nations and proclaim it; lift up a banner and proclaim it; do not hide it. Say, 'Babylon is captured! Bel is put to shame; Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame; her idols are dismayed.' ³For a nation has come up against her from the north; it will make her land a desolation, and no one will live in it. Both man and beast have fled away. ⁴In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel will come, they and the people of Judah together. They will come weeping as they go, and they will seek the LORD their God. ⁵They will ask the way to Zion, with their faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.' ⁶My people were lost sheep. Their shepherds led them astray and made them wander on the mountains; they went from mountain to hill and forgot their resting place. ⁷All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, 'We are not guilty, because they sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, the hope of their fathers, the LORD.' ⁸Flee from the midst of Babylon; go out from the land of the Chaldeans, and be like male goats leading the flock. ⁹For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will array themselves against her; from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like those of a skillful warrior who does not return empty-handed. ¹⁰Chaldea will become plunder; all who plunder her will have their fill, declares the LORD. ¹¹Because you rejoice, because you exult, you who plunder my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions, ¹²your mother will be utterly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. ¹³Because of the wrath of the LORD she will not be inhabited, but will be utterly desolate. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will whistle at all her wounds. ¹⁴Array yourselves against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow. Shoot at her; spare no arrow, for she has sinned against the LORD. ¹⁵Raise a shout against her all around! She has yielded; her buttresses have fallen, her walls are torn down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD; take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her. ¹⁶Cut off from Babylon the sower and the one who grasps the sickle at harvest time. Before the oppressor's sword each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land. ¹⁷Israel is a scattered sheep; lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones. ¹⁸Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria. ¹⁹I will bring Israel back to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; on the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead his appetite will be satisfied. ²⁰In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there will be none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I will forgive those whom I leave as a remnant. ²¹Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Put them to the sword and devote them to destruction after them, declares the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you. ²²The sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction. ²³How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! ²⁴I laid a trap for you, and you were captured, Babylon, before you knew it. You were found and also were seized, because you challenged the LORD. ²⁵The LORD has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for this is a work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. ²⁶Come against her from the farthest border; open her storehouses. Heap her up like mounds and devote her to destruction; let no remnant be left to her. ²⁷Put all her bulls to the sword; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. ²⁸Listen—the fugitives and escapees from the land of Babylon are declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple. ²⁹Summon many against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around; let there be no escape for her. Repay her according to her deeds; according to all that she has done, do to her, for she has acted proudly against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be silenced in that day, declares the LORD. ³¹Behold, I am against you, O Arrogance, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. ³²Arrogance will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him. ³³Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah as well. All who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. ³⁴Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their case, so that he may give rest to the earth but bring turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon. ³⁵A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, against her officials, and against her wise men. ³⁶A sword is against the boasters, and they will become fools; a sword is against her warriors, and they will be dismayed. ³⁷A sword is against her horses and her chariots, and against all the mixed peoples in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be plundered. ³⁸A drought is upon her waters, and they will dry up, for it is a land of carved images, and they rave over their idols. ³⁹Therefore desert creatures will dwell there with jackals, and ostriches will live in it. It will never again be inhabited, nor will it be lived in from generation to generation. ⁴⁰As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, declares the LORD, no one will dwell there, and no human being will sojourn in her. ⁴¹Behold, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are being stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth. ⁴²They grasp bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, arrayed like a man for battle against you, daughter Babylon. ⁴³The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands have grown weak. Distress has taken hold of him, pains like those of a woman in labor. ⁴⁴Behold, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to a secure pasture; for in an instant I will make them run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who can summon me? What shepherd can stand before me? ⁴⁵Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that he has taken against Babylon, and the plans that he has made against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flock will drag them away; surely he will make their pasture desolate because of them. ⁴⁶At the sound of Babylon's capture the earth shakes, and an outcry is heard among the nations.

Translation Notes

4/11/2026

💡 Read the current translation below. If you have suggestions, comment by verse.

📚 Reference Translations

🔬 Exegesis Resources