Jeremiah 50:1-10
1599 Geneva Bible
50 He prophesieth the destruction of Babylon, and the deliverance of Israel which was in captivity.
1 The word that the Lord spake concerning Babel, and concerning the land of the Chaldeans by the [a]ministry of Jeremiah the Prophet.
2 Declare among the nations, and publish it, and set up a standard, proclaim it and conceal it not: say, [b]Babel is taken, Bel is confounded, [c]Merodach is broken down: her idols are confounded, and their images are burst in pieces.
3 For out of the North [d]there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land waste, and none shall dwell therein: they shall flee, and depart, both man and beast.
4 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall [e]come, they, and the children of Judah together, going, and [f]weeping shall they go, and seek the Lord their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us cleave to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
6 ¶ My people hath been as lost sheep: their [g]shepherds have caused them to go astray, and have turned them away to the mountains: they have gone from [h]mountain to hill, and forgotten their resting place.
7 All that found them have devoured them, and their enemies said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the Lord, [i]the habitation of justice, even the Lord the hope of their fathers.
8 [j]Flee from the midst of Babel, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be ye as the he goats [k]before the flock.
9 For lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babel a multitude of mighty nations from the North country, and they shall set themselves in array against her, whereby she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a strong man, which is expert, for none shall return in vain.
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her, [l]shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 50:1 Hebrew, hands.
- Jeremiah 50:2 After that God had used the Babylonians’ service to punish other nations, he showeth that their turn shall come to be punished.
- Jeremiah 50:2 These were two of their chief idols.
- Jeremiah 50:3 To wit, the Medes and the Persians.
- Jeremiah 50:4 When Cyrus shall take Babel.
- Jeremiah 50:4 Read Jer. 31:9.
- Jeremiah 50:6 Their governors and ministers by their examples have provoked them to idolatry.
- Jeremiah 50:6 They have committed idolatry in every place.
- Jeremiah 50:7 For the Lord dwelt among them in his Temple, and would have maintained them by his justice against their enemies.
- Jeremiah 50:8 When God shall deliver you by Cyrus.
- Jeremiah 50:8 That is, most forward and without fear.
- Jeremiah 50:10 Shall be made rich thereby.
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