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Babylon’s Sure Fall

11 “You rejoice and are glad,
    you who plundered my chosen people.
You frisk about like a calf in a meadow
    and neigh like a stallion.
12 But your homeland[a] will be overwhelmed
    with shame and disgrace.
You will become the least of nations—
    a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.
13 Because of the Lord’s anger,
    Babylon will become a deserted wasteland.
All who pass by will be horrified
    and will gasp at the destruction they see there.

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Footnotes

  1. 50:12 Hebrew your mother.

11 “Though you rejoice, though you exult,
    O plunderers of my inheritance,
though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass,
    and you neigh like the powerful stallions,
12 your mother will be very ashamed.
    She who gave birth to you will be humiliated.[a]
Look, she will be the least of the nations,
    a desert,[b] dry land, and wilderness.[c]
13 Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited,
    but she will be a wasteland, all of her.
Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled
    and will hiss because of all her wounds.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:12 Or “ashamed”
  2. Jeremiah 50:12 Or “wilderness”
  3. Jeremiah 50:12 Or “Arabah”