Jeremiah 50:35-40
New American Standard Bible
35 A (A)sword against the Chaldeans,” declares the Lord,
“And against the inhabitants of Babylon
And against her (B)leaders and her (C)wise men!
36 A sword against the (D)oracle priests, and they will become fools!
A sword against her (E)warriors, and they will be [a](F)shattered!
37 A sword against [b]their (G)horses, against [c]their chariots,
And against all the [d](H)foreigners who are in the midst of her,
And they will become (I)women!
A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!
38 A [e](J)drought on her waters, and they will be dried up!
For it is a land of (K)idols,
And they go insane at frightful images.
39 “Therefore the (L)desert creatures will live there with the jackals;
The ostriches also will live in it.
It will (M)never again be inhabited
Nor lived in from generation to generation.
40 As when God overthrew (N)Sodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the Lord,
“No one will live there,
Nor will [f]anyone of mankind reside in it.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:36 Or filled with terror
- Jeremiah 50:37 Lit his
- Jeremiah 50:37 Lit his
- Jeremiah 50:37 Lit mixed multitude
- Jeremiah 50:38 Another reading is sword
- Jeremiah 50:40 Lit a son of man
Jeremiah 50:35-40
International Standard Version
35 A sword against the Chaldeans,”
declares the Lord,
“and against the inhabitants of Babylon,
against her officials and her wise men.
36 A sword against the diviners.[a]
They’ll be made fools.
A sword against her warriors.
They’ll be shattered.
37 A sword against her horses, against her chariots,[b]
and against all the foreign troops[c] in her midst.
They’ll become women.
A sword against her treasures.
They’ll be plundered.
38 A drought against her waters.
They’ll dry up.
For it’s a land of idols,
and they go mad over their terrifying images.
39 Therefore the desert creatures
along with hyenas will live there.
They’ll live in it with ostriches,
but people won’t live in it again.
They won’t inhabit it from generation to generation.
40 Just as when God overthrew Sodom,
Gomorrah, and their neighbors,”
declares the Lord,
“so also no one will live there.
No human being will reside in it.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:36 Lit. empty talkers; a pun on the Babylonian word for these priests
- Jeremiah 50:37 Lit. against his horses, against his chariots
- Jeremiah 50:37 Lit. mixed peoples
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