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50.23
JEREMIAH
- 23How is the hammer of the whole earth
- Cut asunder and broken!
- How is Babylon become
- A desolation among the nations!
- 24I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,
- And thou wast not aware;
- Thou art found, and also caught,
- Because thou hast striven against the Lord.
- 25The Lord hath opened His armoury,
- And hath brought forth the weapons of His indignation;
- For it is a work that the Lord God of hosts
- Hath to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
- 26Come against her from every quarter, open her granaries,
- Cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly;
- Let nothing of her be left.
- 27Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter;
- Woe unto them! for their day is come,
- The time of their visitation.
- 28Hark! they flee and escape out of the land of Babylon,
- To declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
- The vengeance of His temple.
- 29Call together the archers against Babylon,
- All them that bend the bow;
- Encamp against her round about,
- Let none thereof escape;
- Recompense her according to her work,
- According to all that she hath done, do unto her:
- For she hath been arrogant against the Lord,
- Against the Holy One of Israel.
- 30Therefore shall her young men fall in her broad places,
- And all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,
- Saith the Lord.
- 31Behold, I am against thee, O thou most arrogant,
- Saith the Lord God of hosts;
- For thy day is come,
- The time that I will punish thee.
- 32And the most arrogant shall stumble and fall,
- And none shall raise him up;
- And I will kindle a fire in his cities,
- And it shall devour all that are round about him.
- 33Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
- The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together;
- And all that took them captives hold them fast;
- They refuse to let them go.
- 34Their Redeemer is strong,
- The Lord of hosts is His name;
- He will thoroughly plead their cause,
- That He may give rest to the earth,
- And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
- 35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord,
- And upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
- 36A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools;
- A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
- 37A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots,
- And upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her,
- And they shall become as women;
- A sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
- 38A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up;
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