16 “‘But all who devour(A) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.(B)
Those who plunder(C) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.

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25 Pour out your wrath on the nations(A)
    that do not acknowledge you,
    on the peoples who do not call on your name.(B)
For they have devoured(C) Jacob;
    they have devoured him completely
    and destroyed his homeland.(D)

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Distress and Help

33 Woe(A) to you, destroyer,
    you who have not been destroyed!
Woe to you, betrayer,
    you who have not been betrayed!
When you stop destroying,
    you will be destroyed;(B)
when you stop betraying,
    you will be betrayed.(C)

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22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do(A) all that I say, I will be an enemy(B) to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.

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For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye(A)

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10 “If anyone is to go into captivity,
    into captivity they will go.
If anyone is to be killed[a] with the sword,
    with the sword they will be killed.”[b](A)

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness(B) on the part of God’s people.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 13:10 Some manuscripts anyone kills
  2. Revelation 13:10 Jer. 15:2

“I am going to make Jerusalem a cup(A) that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling.(B) Judah(C) will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.

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I will sell your sons(A) and daughters to the people of Judah,(B) and they will sell them to the Sabeans,(C) a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.(D)

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Nations will take them
    and bring(A) them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations(B)
    and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives(C) of their captors
    and rule over their oppressors.(D)

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May all who hate Zion(A)
    be turned back in shame.(B)

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Moab and Ammon

“I have heard the insults(A) of Moab(B)
    and the taunts of the Ammonites,(C)
who insulted(D) my people
    and made threats against their land.(E)

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16 You will be filled with shame(A) instead of glory.(B)
    Now it is your turn! Drink(C) and let your nakedness be exposed[a]!(D)
The cup(E) from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you,
    and disgrace will cover your glory.

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  1. Habakkuk 2:16 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint) and stagger

    but with an overwhelming flood(A)
he will make an end of Nineveh;
    he will pursue his foes into the realm of darkness.

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10 Then my enemy will see it
    and will be covered with shame,(A)
she who said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”(B)
My eyes will see her downfall;(C)
    even now she will be trampled(D) underfoot
    like mire in the streets.

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11 But now many nations
    are gathered against you.
They say, “Let her be defiled,
    let our eyes gloat(A) over Zion!”

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“‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword(A) at the time of their calamity,(B) the time their punishment reached its climax,(C)

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Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the Lord.

“‘You have been a staff of reed(A) for the people of Israel.

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“Son of man, because Tyre(A) has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha!(B) The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’ therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea(C) casting up its waves. They will destroy(D) the walls of Tyre(E) and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. Out in the sea(F) she will become a place to spread fishnets,(G) for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. She will become plunder(H) for the nations,(I) and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar[a](J) king of Babylon, king of kings,(K) with horses and chariots,(L) with horsemen and a great army. He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works(M) against you, build a ramp(N) up to your walls and raise his shields against you. He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.(O) 10 His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots(P) when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. 11 The hooves(Q) of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars(R) will fall to the ground.(S) 12 They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.(T) 13 I will put an end(U) to your noisy songs,(V) and the music of your harps(W) will be heard no more.(X) 14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt,(Y) for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

15 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands(Z) tremble(AA) at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan(AB) and the slaughter takes place in you? 16 Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered(AC) garments. Clothed(AD) with terror, they will sit on the ground,(AE) trembling(AF) every moment, appalled(AG) at you. 17 Then they will take up a lament(AH) concerning you and say to you:

“‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,
    peopled by men of the sea!
You were a power on the seas,
    you and your citizens;
you put your terror
    on all who lived there.(AI)
18 Now the coastlands tremble(AJ)
    on the day of your fall;
the islands in the sea
    are terrified at your collapse.’(AK)

19 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths(AL) over you and its vast waters cover you,(AM) 20 then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,(AN) to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place[b] in the land of the living.(AO) 21 I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more.(AP) You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign Lord.”(AQ)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:7 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, of which Nebuchadnezzar is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah
  2. Ezekiel 26:20 Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory

Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you said “Aha!(A)” over my sanctuary when it was desecrated(B) and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile,(C) therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East(D) as a possession. They will set up their camps(E) and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.(F) I will turn Rabbah(G) into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep.(H) Then you will know that I am the Lord. For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have clapped your hands(I) and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel,(J) therefore I will stretch out my hand(K) against you and give you as plunder(L) to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy(M) you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(N)’”

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21 Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom,
    you who live in the land of Uz.(A)
But to you also the cup(B) will be passed;
    you will be drunk and stripped naked.(C)

22 Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;(D)
    he will not prolong your exile.
But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,
    and expose your wickedness.(E)

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21 “People have heard my groaning,(A)
    but there is no one to comfort me.(B)
All my enemies have heard of my distress;
    they rejoice(C) at what you have done.
May you bring the day(D) you have announced
    so they may become like me.

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34 “Nebuchadnezzar(A) king of Babylon has devoured(B) us,(C)
    he has thrown us into confusion,
    he has made us an empty jar.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us
    and filled his stomach with our delicacies,
    and then has spewed(D) us out.
35 May the violence(E) done to our flesh[a] be on Babylon,”
    say the inhabitants of Zion.
“May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,”
    says Jerusalem.(F)

36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“See, I will defend your cause(G)
    and avenge(H) you;
I will dry up(I) her sea
    and make her springs dry.
37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
    a haunt(J) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,(K)
    a place where no one lives.(L)

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  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Or done to us and to our children

33 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“The people of Israel are oppressed,(A)
    and the people of Judah as well.
All their captors hold them fast,
    refusing to let them go.(B)
34 Yet their Redeemer(C) is strong;
    the Lord Almighty(D) is his name.
He will vigorously defend their cause(E)
    so that he may bring rest(F) to their land,
    but unrest to those who live in Babylon.

35 “A sword(G) against the Babylonians!”(H)
    declares the Lord
“against those who live in Babylon
    and against her officials and wise(I) men!
36 A sword against her false prophets!
    They will become fools.
A sword against her warriors!(J)
    They will be filled with terror.(K)
37 A sword against her horses and chariots(L)
    and all the foreigners in her ranks!
    They will become weaklings.(M)
A sword against her treasures!(N)
    They will be plundered.
38 A drought on[a] her waters!(O)
    They will dry(P) up.
For it is a land of idols,(Q)
    idols that will go mad with terror.

39 “So desert creatures(R) and hyenas will live there,
    and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited
    or lived in from generation to generation.(S)
40 As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah(T)
    along with their neighboring towns,”
declares the Lord,
“so no one will live there;
    no people will dwell in it.(U)

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  1. Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against

Israel was holy(A) to the Lord,(B)
    the firstfruits(C) of his harvest;
all who devoured(D) her were held guilty,(E)
    and disaster overtook them,’”
declares the Lord.

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17     no weapon forged against you will prevail,(A)
    and you will refute(B) every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants(C) of the Lord,
    and this is their vindication(D) from me,”
declares the Lord.

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