Jeremiah 50:4-10
GOD’S WORD Translation
4 “In those days and at that time,” declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and Judah will cry as they go together
to seek the Lord their God.
5 They will ask which road goes to Zion and turn in that direction.
They will go there to make a permanent agreement with the Lord.
It will not be forgotten.
6 My people have been lost sheep.
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They wander around on the mountains.
They go from mountains to hills.
They have forgotten their resting place.
7 Everyone who finds them eats them.
Their enemies say, ‘We’re not guilty.
They have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture.
They have sinned against the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’
8 “Run away from Babylon.
Leave the land of the Babylonians.
Be like the male goats that lead the flock.
9 I am going to stir up an alliance of strong nations from the north
and bring it against Babylon.
Those nations will take up positions against Babylon.
Babylon will be captured from the north.
Its enemy’s arrows will be like skilled soldiers
who don’t come back empty-handed.
10 The Babylonians will become the prize.
All who loot them will get everything they want,”
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:4-10
New International Version
4 “In those days, at that time,”
declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together(A)
will go in tears(B) to seek(C) the Lord their God.
5 They will ask the way(D) to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come(E) and bind themselves to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant(F)
that will not be forgotten.
6 “My people have been lost sheep;(G)
their shepherds(H) have led them astray(I)
and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill(J)
and forgot their own resting place.(K)
7 Whoever found them devoured(L) them;
their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,(M)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
the Lord, the hope(N) of their ancestors.’
8 “Flee(O) out of Babylon;(P)
leave the land of the Babylonians,
and be like the goats that lead the flock.
9 For I will stir(Q) up and bring against Babylon
an alliance of great nations(R) from the land of the north.(S)
They will take up their positions against her,
and from the north she will be captured.(T)
Their arrows(U) will be like skilled warriors
who do not return empty-handed.
10 So Babylonia[a] will be plundered;(V)
all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:10 Or Chaldea
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