Jeremiah 50:41-46

New International Reader's Version

⁴¹ “Look! An army is coming from the north.
    I am stirring up a great nation and many kings.
    They are coming from a land that is very far away.
⁴² Their soldiers are armed with bows and spears.
    They are mean.
    They do not show any mercy at all.
They come riding in on their horses.
    They sound like the roaring ocean.
They are lined up for battle.
    They are coming to attack you, city of Babylon.
⁴³ The king of Babylon has heard reports about them.
    His hands can’t help him.
He is in great pain.
    It is like the pain of a woman having a baby.
⁴⁴ I will be like a lion coming up from the bushes by the Jordan River.
    I will hunt in rich grasslands.
I will chase the people of Babylon from their land in an instant.
    What nation will I choose to do this?
    Which one will I appoint?
Is anyone like me? Who would dare to argue with me?
    What leader can stand against me?”
⁴⁵ So listen to what the Lord has planned against Babylon.
    Hear what he has planned against the land of the Babylonians.
Their young people will be dragged away.
    Their grasslands will be shocked at their fate.
⁴⁶ At the news of Babylon’s capture,
    the earth will shake.
    The people’s cries will be heard among the nations.