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Jeremiah 51:24

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But now, my people will watch, while I repay you for what you did to Zion.

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Why should nations ask us, “Where is your God?” Let us and the other nations see you take revenge for your servants who died a violent death.

Gather around me, all of you! Listen to what I say. Did any of your idols predict this would happen? Did they say that my friend would do what I want done to Babylonia?

This is the year when the LORD God will show kindness to us and punish our enemies. The LORD has sent me to comfort those who mourn,

Do you hear that noise in the city and those shouts coming from the temple? It is the LORD shouting as he punishes his enemies.

I will pay back the Babylonians for every wrong they have done. Great kings from many other nations will conquer the Babylonians and force them to be slaves.

Babylonia will be conquered, and its enemies will carry off everything they want.

Attack from every side! Babylon surrenders! The enemy tears down its walls and towers. I am taking my revenge by doing to Babylon what it did to other cities.

I, the LORD, want Babylon destroyed, because its army destroyed my temple. So, you kings of Media, sharpen your arrows and pick up your shields.

shepherds and their flocks, farmers and their oxen, and governors and leaders.

The people of Babylonia harmed some of us and killed others. Now, LORD, make them pay!”

Babylon must be overthrown, because it slaughtered the people of Israel and of many other nations.

An enemy will attack and destroy Babylon. Its soldiers will be captured and their weapons broken, because I am a God who takes revenge against nations for what they do.

Pay them back for everything they have done, LORD!

The heavens should be happy with God's people and apostles and prophets. God has punished her for them.”

On the streets of Babylon is found the blood of God's people and of his prophets, and everyone else.”

They shouted, “Master, you are holy and faithful! How long will it be before you judge and punish the people of this earth who killed us?”




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