Add parallel Print Page Options

35 “A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh,
    “and on the inhabitants of Babylon,
    on her princes,
    and on her wise men.
36 A sword is on the boasters,
    and they will become fools.
A sword is on her mighty men,
    and they will be dismayed.
37 A sword is on their horses,
    on their chariots,
    and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her;
    and they will become as women.
A sword is on her treasures,
    and they will be robbed.
38 A drought is on her waters,
    and they will be dried up;
for it is a land of engraved images,
    and they are mad over idols.
39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert
    with the wolves will dwell there.
The ostriches will dwell therein;
    and it will be inhabited no more forever;
    neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh,
    “so no man will dwell there,
    neither will any son of man live therein.

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:36 Or filled with terror
  2. Jeremiah 50:37 Lit his
  3. Jeremiah 50:37 Lit his
  4. Jeremiah 50:37 Lit mixed multitude
  5. Jeremiah 50:38 Another reading is sword
  6. Jeremiah 50:40 Lit a son of man