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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.

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35 A sword against Babylon and its people,
    declares the Lord,
        along with its officials and sages.
36 A sword against its diviners
    so that they become fools.
A sword against its warriors
    so that they are terrified.
37 A sword against its horses and chariots,
    and the mercenaries[a] in its midst
        so that they lose courage.[b]
A sword against its treasures
    so that they are looted.
38 A sword[c] against the water supplies
    so that they dry up.
It is truly the land of idols,
    idols about which they have gone utterly mad!
39 Therefore, Babylon will become a ghost town,
    a place for desert animals,
        hyenas, and ravenous birds.[d]
No one will live there again;
    no one will make it their home.
40 Just as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,
        declares the Lord,
    so no one will live in Babylon
        or settle there again.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:37 Or foreigners
  2. Jeremiah 50:37 Or become like women
  3. Jeremiah 50:38 Or A drought
  4. Jeremiah 50:39 Heb uncertain