38 A [a](A)drought on her waters, and they will be dried up!
For it is a land of (B)idols,
And they go insane at frightful images.

39 “Therefore the (C)desert creatures will live there with the jackals;
The ostriches also will live in it.
It will (D)never again be inhabited
Nor lived in from generation to generation.
40 As when God overthrew (E)Sodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the Lord,
“No one will live there,
Nor will [b]anyone of mankind reside in it.

41 “Behold, a people is coming (F)from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Will be roused from the remote parts of the earth.
42 They (G)seize their bow and javelin;
They are (H)cruel and have no mercy.
Their (I)voice roars like the sea;
And they ride on (J)horses,
(K)Drawn up like a man for the battle
Against you, daughter of Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:38 Another reading is sword
  2. Jeremiah 50:40 Lit a son of man

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