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³³And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals,

A desolation for ever; no man shall abide there,

Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

³⁴The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:

³⁵Thus saith the Lord of hosts:

Behold, I will break the bow of Elam

The chief of their might.

³⁶And I will bring against Elam the four winds

From the four quarters of heaven,

And will scatter them toward all those winds;

And there shall be no nation whither the dispersed of Elam shall not come.

³⁷And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies,

And before them that seek their life;

And I will bring evil upon them,

Even My fierce anger, saith the Lord;

And I will send the sword after them,

Till I have consumed them;

³⁸And I will set My throne in Elam,

And will destroy from thence king and princes, saith the Lord.

³⁹But it shall come to pass in the end of days,

That I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.

50The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

²Declare ye among the nations and announce,

And set up a standard;

Announce, and conceal not;

Say: 'Babylon is taken,

Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed;

Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'

³For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her,

Which shall make her land desolate,

And none shall dwell therein;

They are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.

⁴In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord,

The children of Israel shall come,

They and the children of Judah together;

They shall go on their way weeping,

And shall seek the Lord their God.

⁵They shall inquire concerning Zion

With their faces hitherward:

'Come ye, and join yourselves to the Lord

In an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.'

 

⁶My people hath been lost sheep;

Their shepherds have caused them to go astray,

They have turned them away on the mountains;

They have gone from mountain to hill,

They have forgotten their resting-place.

⁷All that found them have devoured them;

And their adversaries said: 'We are not guilty';

Because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice,

Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

 

⁸Flee out of the midst of Babylon,

And go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans,

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