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Jeremiah 51:1-5
Evangelical Heritage Version
Jeremiah 51:1-5
Evangelical Heritage Version
51 This is what the Lord says:
Watch, I will stir up a destroying wind against Babylon
and against the people who live in Leb Kamai.[a]
2 I will send foreigners to Babylon
to winnow her and empty her land.
They will oppose her on every side in the day of trouble.
3 Bend your bow against anyone who bends a bow
and against anyone who stands in armor.[b]
Do not spare the young men.
Completely destroy her army.
4 They fall down, slain in the land of Chaldea,
mortally wounded in her streets.
5 Israel and Judah are not forsaken by God, the Lord of Armies,
though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:1 Leb Kamai seems to be a cryptogram for Chaldea. Taking the letters of the Hebrew word for Chaldeans and writing them in reverse alphabet (A=Z, B=Y, etc.) produces Leb Kamai, which means heart of my adversaries.
- Jeremiah 51:3 Or let no one bend a bow or stand up in armor. The Hebrew text and the meaning of these two lines are uncertain.
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