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1The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:
2“Declare among the nations and proclaim,
Proclaim, you must not conceal it.
Say, ‘Babylon is captured,
her idols are ashamed,
3For a nation will come up against her from the north.
It will make her land as a horror,
From humans to animals they all will wander off.
4In those days and in that time,’ ” declares Yahweh,[#Literally “a declaration of”]
Weeping as they go, they will go,
5They will ask the way to Zion,
They will come and join themselves to Yahweh
6My people have become lost sheep,
They led them away to the mountains.
From mountain to hill they have gone,
7All those who found them have devoured them.
because they have sinned against Yahweh, the true pasture,
8Flee from the midst of Babylon,
Go out and be like he-goats
9For look, I am going to stir up,
a contingent of great nations
And they will draw up a battle formation against her,
Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success,
10And Chaldea will be as booty,
11“Though you rejoice, though you exult,
though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass,
12your mother will be very ashamed.
Look, she will be the least of the nations,
13Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited,
Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled
14Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around,
You must not spare arrows,
15Raise a war cry against her on all sides.
Her towers have fallen,
For this is the vengeance of Yahweh.
As she has done to others,
16Cut off the sower from Babylon,
Because of the sword of the oppressor
17Israel is a sheep scattered,
The first who devoured it was the king of Assyria,
18Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,[#Literally “To thus”]
“Look, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land
19And I will restore Israel to its pasture,
and on the hills of Ephraim, and in Gilead
20In those days and at that time,” declares Yahweh,[#Literally “a declaration of”]
and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found,
21To the land of Merathaim,
and against the inhabitants of Pekod,
“and do according to all that I have commanded you.
22The sound of battle is in the land,
23How the blacksmith’s hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken!
24I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon.
You were discovered and seized,
25Yahweh has opened his armory,
for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts
26Come against her from the end,
Pile her up like heaps and destroy her.
27Massacre all her bulls,
Woe to them, for their day has come,
28There is the sound of fugitives and survivors
to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God,
29Summon archers against Babylon,
Encamp all around her,
Take revenge on her according to her deeds.
For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently,
30Therefore her young men will fall in her public squares,[#Literally “To thus”]
31“Look, I am against you, O arrogant one,”
“for your day has come,
32And the arrogant one will stumble and fall,
And I will kindle a fire in his cities,
33Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
“The people of Israel are oppressed,
for all their captors have seized them,
34Their redeemer is strong,
Surely he will plead their case,
but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.
35A sword against the Chaldeans,” declares Yahweh,[#Literally “a declaration of”]
and against her officials,
36A sword against the oracle priests,
A sword against her warriors,
37A sword against his horses,
and against all the foreign troops who are in the midst of her,
A sword against her treasures,
38A drought will come against her waters,
for it is a land of images,
39Therefore desert creatures will live there with jackals,[#Literally “To thus”; #Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation]
And she will not be inhabited again forever,
40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
“no one will live there,
41Look, a people is about to come
and a great nation and many kings are woken up
42They keep hold of bow and short sword.
Their sound is like the sea, it roars,
Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle,
43The king of Babylon heard their report
Anxiety has seized him,
44Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan[#Hebrew “thicket”]
so I will chase them away quickly from her,
For who is like me, and who can summon me,
45Therefore hear the plan of Yahweh[#Literally “To thus”]
and his plans
Surely they will drag them away,
Surely he will cause their grazing place
46At the sound, ‘Babylon has been captured,’
and a cry for help among the nations