51 耶和华说:

“看啊,我要使毁灭的暴风袭击巴比伦和住在立加米的人。
毁灭巴比伦人的日子一到,
我要差遣外族人从四面八方攻击、消灭他们,
如同狂风卷走碎秸。
不要让他们的弓箭手有机会射箭,
不要让他们的战士有机会穿铠甲,
不要放过他们的青年,
要使他们全军覆没。

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51 This is what the Lord says:

“See, I will stir(A) up the spirit of a destroyer
    against Babylon(B) and the people of Leb Kamai.[a]
I will send foreigners(C) to Babylon
    to winnow(D) her and to devastate her land;
they will oppose her on every side
    in the day(E) of her disaster.
Let not the archer string his bow,(F)
    nor let him put on his armor.(G)
Do not spare her young men;
    completely destroy[b] her army.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:1 Leb Kamai is a cryptogram for Chaldea, that is, Babylonia.
  2. Jeremiah 51:3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.