11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from (A)the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

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15 Though (A)he may flourish among his brothers,
    (B)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
    rising from the wilderness,
(C)and his fountain shall dry up;
    his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip (D)his treasury
    of every precious thing.

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10 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? (A)Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”

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17 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to (B)gather the wheat into his barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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12 His (A)winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and (B)gather his wheat into the barn, (C)but the chaff he will burn with (D)unquenchable fire.”

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Therefore they shall be (A)like the morning mist
    or (B)like the dew that goes early away,
(C)like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor
    or (D)like smoke from a window.

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12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
(A)the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
    fire consumed it.

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(A)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(B)which was overthrown in a moment,
    and no hands were wrung for her.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Even jackals offer the breast;
    they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become cruel,
    like the ostriches in the wilderness.

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48 (A)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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11 (A)My eyes are spent with weeping;
    (B)my stomach churns;
(C)my bile is poured out to the ground
    (D)because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
(E)because infants and babies (F)faint
    in the streets of the city.

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The Utter Destruction of Babylon

51 Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will stir up (A)the spirit of a destroyer
    against Babylon,
    against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,[a]
and I will send to Babylon winnowers,
    and (B)they shall winnow her,
and they shall empty her land,
    when they come against her from every side
    (C)on the day of trouble.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:1 A code name for Chaldea

23 (A)Behold (B)the storm of the Lord!
    Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
    it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
24 (C)The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back
    until he has executed and accomplished
    the intentions of his mind.
(D)In the latter days you will understand this.

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19 (A)Behold, the storm of the Lord!
    Wrath has gone forth,
(B)a whirling tempest;
    it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

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17 “You shall say to them this word:
(A)‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
    and let them not cease,
for the virgin (B)daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
    (C)with a very grievous blow.

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Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, (A)I will refine them and (B)test them,
    for what else can I do, (C)because of my people?

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[a] (A)Oh that my head were waters,
    and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
    for the slain of (B)the daughter of my people!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Ch 8:23 in Hebrew

19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    (B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”

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(A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(B)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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16 (A)you shall winnow them, and (B)the wind shall carry them away,
    and the tempest shall scatter them.
(C)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
    in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

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