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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 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:36 Lit. empty talkers; a pun on the Babylonian word for these priests
  2. Jeremiah 50:37 Lit. against his horses, against his chariots
  3. Jeremiah 50:37 Lit. mixed peoples