Jeremiah 50:9
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9 (A)For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
An assembly of great nations from the north country,
And they shall array themselves against her;
From there she shall be captured.
Their arrows shall be like those of [a]an expert warrior;
(B)None shall return in vain.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:9 So with some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr.; MT, Tg., Vg. a warrior who makes childless
Jeremiah 51:27-28
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27 (A)Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
(B)Prepare the nations against her,
Call (C)the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
28 Prepare against her the nations,
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion.
Jeremiah 51:11
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11 (A)Make[a] the arrows bright!
Gather the shields!
(B)The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
(C)For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it,
Because it is (D)the vengeance of the Lord,
The vengeance for His temple.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:11 Polish the arrows!
Jeremiah 51:1-4
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The Utter Destruction of Babylon
51 Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will raise up against (A)Babylon,
Against those who dwell in [a]Leb Kamai,
(B)A destroying wind.
2 And I will send (C)winnowers to Babylon,
Who shall winnow her and empty her land.
(D)For in the day of doom
They shall be against her all around.
3 Against her (E)let the archer bend his bow,
And lift himself up against her in his armor.
Do not spare her young men;
(F)Utterly destroy all her army.
4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
(G)And those thrust through in her streets.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:1 Lit. The Midst of Those Who Rise Up Against Me; a code word for Chaldea, Babylonia
Jeremiah 50:41-42
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41 “Behold,(A) a people shall come from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.
42 (B)They shall hold the bow and the lance;
(C)They are cruel and shall not show mercy.
(D)Their voice shall roar like the sea;
They shall ride on horses,
Set in array, like a man for the battle,
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:29
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29 “Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them [a]escape.
(A)Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
(B)For she has been proud against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:29 Qr., some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg. add to her
Jeremiah 50:26
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26 Come against her from the farthest border;
Open her storehouses;
Cast her up as heaps of ruins,
And destroy her utterly;
Let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah 50:21
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21 “Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,
And against the inhabitants of (A)Pekod.
[a]Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,
“And do (B)according to all that I have commanded you.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:21 Or Attack with the sword
Jeremiah 50:14
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14 “Put(A) yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
All you who bend the bow;
Shoot at her, spare no arrows,
For she has sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:3
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3 (A)For out of the north (B)a nation comes up against her,
Which shall make her land desolate,
And no one shall dwell therein.
They shall [a]move, they shall depart,
Both man and beast.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:3 Or wander
Jeremiah 15:14
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14 And I will [a]make you cross over with your enemies
(A)Into a land which you do not know;
For a (B)fire is kindled in My anger,
Which shall burn upon you.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 15:14 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr., Tg. cause you to serve (cf. 17:4)
Isaiah 45:1-4
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Cyrus, God’s Instrument
45 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To (A)Cyrus, whose (B)right hand I have [a]held—
(C)To subdue nations before him
And (D)loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
2 ‘I will go before you
(E)And[b] make the [c]crooked places straight;
(F)I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
(G)That you may know that I, the Lord,
Who (H)call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.
4 For (I)Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:1 strengthened or sustained
- Isaiah 45:2 Tg. I will trample down the walls; Vg. I will humble the great ones of the earth
- Isaiah 45:2 DSS, LXX mountains
Isaiah 41:25
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25 “I have raised up one from the north,
And he shall come;
From the [a]rising of the sun (A)he shall call on My name;
(B)And he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 41:25 East
Isaiah 21:2
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2 A distressing vision is declared to me;
(A)The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,
And the plunderer plunders.
(B)Go up, O Elam!
Besiege, O Media!
All its sighing I have made to cease.
Isaiah 13:17-18
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17 “Behold,(A) I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not [a]regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:17 esteem
Isaiah 13:2-5
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2 “Lift(A) up a banner (B)on the high mountain,
Raise your voice to them;
(C)Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My [a]sanctified ones;
I have also called (D)My mighty ones for My anger—
Those who (E)rejoice in My exaltation.”
4 The (F)noise of a multitude in the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts musters
The army for battle.
5 They come from a far country,
From the end of heaven—
The (G)Lord and His [b]weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole (H)land.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:3 consecrated or set apart
- Isaiah 13:5 Or instruments
Ezra 1:1-2
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End of the Babylonian Captivity(A)
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord (B)by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, (C)so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has (D)commanded me to build Him a [a]house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.
Footnotes
- Ezra 1:2 Temple
2 Samuel 1:22
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22 From the blood of the slain,
From the fat of the mighty,
(A)The bow of Jonathan did not turn back,
And the sword of Saul did not return empty.
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