Declare among the nations, and publish it, and set up a standard, proclaim it and conceal it not: say, [a]Babel is taken, Bel is confounded, [b]Merodach is broken down: her idols are confounded, and their images are burst in pieces.

For out of the North [c]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.

In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall [d]come, they, and the children of Judah together, going, and [e]weeping shall they go, and seek the Lord their God.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Jeremiah 50:2 These were two of their chief idols.
  3. Jeremiah 50:3 To wit, the Medes and the Persians.
  4. Jeremiah 50:4 When Cyrus shall take Babel.
  5. Jeremiah 50:4 Read Jer. 31:9.

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