Jeremiah 50:21-46 Go up against the land of double rebellion, against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, laying waste and destroying after them, says Jehovah; and do according to all which I commanded thee.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ Go up against the land of double rebellion, against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, laying waste and destroying after them, says Jehovah; and do according to all which I commanded thee. ²² The voice of war in the land, and a great breaking. ²³ How was the hammer of all the earth cut off, and it will be broken! How was Babel for a desolation among the nations! ²⁴ I laid snares for thee and also thou wert taken, O Babel, and thou knewest not: thou wert found and thou wert also taken, for thou didst contend against Jehovah. ²⁵ Jehovah opened his treasure, and he will bring forth the vessels of his anger: for this the work to the Lord Jehovah of armies in the land of the Chaldeans ²⁶ Come ye against her from the extremity; open her store-houses: cast her up as heaps and exterminate her: there shall be no remnant to her. ²⁷ Lay waste all her bullocks; come down to the slaughter: wo to them! for their day came, the time of their reviewing. ²⁸ The voice of those fleeing and escaping out of the land of Babel, to announce in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple. ²⁹ Cause ye many to be heard against Babel: all ye bending the bow encamp against her round about; there shall be no escaping: requite her according to her work; according to all she did, do to her: for she acted proudly against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ For this her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of her war shall be destroyed in that day, says Jehovah. ³¹ Behold me against thee, O pride, says the Lord Jehovah of armies: for thy day came, the time I reviewed thee. ³² And pride stumbled and fell, and none lifting up to it: and I kindled a fire in his cities and it shall consume all round about him. ³³ Thus said Jehovah of armies: the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah being oppressed together: and all taking them captive held upon them; they refused to send them away. ³⁴ He redeeming them is strong; Jehovah of armies, his name: pleading, he will plead their cause, so that he caused the land to rest, and caused disquiet to the inhabitants of Babel. ³⁵ A sword upon the Chaldeans, says Jehovah, and to the inhabitants of Babel and to her chiefs, and to her wise. ³⁶ A sword against the liars; and they were foolish: a sword against her strong ones, and they were broken. ³⁷ A sword against his horses and against his chariots, and against all the mixture which is in her midst; and they were for women: a sword against her treasures, and they were plundered. ³⁸ A sword upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: for it is a land of carved images, and in their terrors they will be foolish. ³⁹ For this the inhabitans of the deserts shall dwell with the islands, and the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell in her: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; and she shall not be dwelt in even to generation and generation. ⁴⁰ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighbors, says Jehovah; a man shall not dwell there, and the son of man shall not sojourn in her. ⁴¹ Behold, a people coming from the north and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the thighs of the earth. ⁴² They shall hold. the bow and the javelin: they are fierce, and they will not pity: their voice shall sound as the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, being arranged as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Babel. ⁴³ The king of Babel heard their report, and his hands were relaxed: anguish seized him as the pain of her bringing forth. ⁴⁴ Behold, as a lion he will come up from the excellency of Jordan to the habitation of strength: for I will wink; I will cause them to run away from her: and who the chosen I shall appoint to her? for who like me? and who shall arraign me? and who that shepherd who shall stand before me? ⁴⁵ For this, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah which he counseled against Babel; and his purposes which he purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: if the last of the flock shall not drag them out: if he shall not lay waste the habitation upon them. ⁴⁶ From the voice of the taking of Babel the earth was shaken, and the cry was heard among the nations.