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All those who found them have devoured them.
    And their foes have said, ‘We are not guilty,
because[a] they have sinned against Yahweh, the true pasture,[b]
    even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.’[c]
Flee from the midst of Babylon,
    and from the land of the Chaldeans.
Go out and be like he-goats
    before[d] the flock.
For look, I am going to stir up,
    and I am going to bring against Babylon
a contingent of great nations
    from the land of the north.
And they will draw up a battle formation against her,
    from there she will be captured.
Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success,
    he does not return without success.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:7 Literally “under that”
  2. Jeremiah 50:7 Literally “settlement of righteousness”
  3. Jeremiah 50:7 Or “fathers”
  4. Jeremiah 50:8 Literally “to the face of”