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Jeremiah 50:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Announce to the nations; proclaim and raise up a signal flag; proclaim, and hide nothing. Say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel  is put to shame; Marduk is terrified.’ Her idols are put to shame; her false gods devastated.

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Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle. The images you carry are loaded, as a burden for the weary animal.


Look, riders come – horsemen in pairs.’ And he answered, saying, ‘Babylon has fallen,  has fallen. All the images of her gods have been shattered on the ground.’


Therefore, look, the days are coming when I will punish Babylon’s carved images. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.


I will punish Bel  in Babylon. I will make him vomit what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even Babylon’s wall will fall.


He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt  for every unclean and despicable beast.  ,


The Lord will be terrifying to them when he starves all the gods of the earth. Then all the distant coasts and islands of the nations will bow in worship to him, each in its own place.


On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.


Therefore, look, the days are coming – this is the  Lord’s declaration – when I will punish her carved images, and the wounded will groan throughout her land.


Messenger races to meet messenger, and herald to meet herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.


Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Wail for her; get balm  for her wound – perhaps she can be healed.


At the sound of Babylon’s conquest the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.


Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol! Proclaim it in Memphis and in Tahpanhes! Say, ‘Take positions! Prepare yourself, for the sword devours all around you.’


Nations, hear the word of the  Lord, and tell it among the far off coasts and islands! Say, ‘The one who scattered Israel will gather him. He will watch over him as a shepherd guards his flock,


Therefore listen, you nations and you witnesses, learn what the charge is against them.


Warn the nations: Look! Proclaim to Jerusalem: Those who besiege are coming from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.


You have heard it. Observe it all. Will you not acknowledge it? From now on I will announce new things to you, hidden things that you have not known.


At that time  Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah since he heard that he had been ill and had recovered.


They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods  but made from wood and stone  by human hands.  So they have destroyed them.


Lift up a banner on a barren mountain. Call out to them. Signal with your hand, and they will go through the gates of the nobles.


and on that day you will say, ‘Give thanks to the Lord; proclaim his name! Make his works known among the peoples. Declare that his name is exalted.


Leave Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with a shout of joy, proclaim this, let it go out to the end of the earth; announce, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant   Jacob! ’


Lift up a signal flag towards Zion. Run for cover! Don’t stand still! For I am bringing disaster from the north – a crushing blow.


Raise up a signal flag against the walls of Babylon; fortify the watch post; set the watchmen in place; prepare the ambush. For the Lord has both planned and accomplished what he has threatened against those who live in Babylon.


Raise a signal flag  in the land; blow a ram’s horn among the nations; set apart the nations against her. Summon kingdoms against her – Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like a swarm  of locusts.


The Lord handed King Jehoiakim of Judah over to him, along with some of the vessels from the house of God.  Nebuchadnezzar carried them to the land of Babylon,  , to the house of his god,  and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.


Nebuchadnezzar asked them, ‘Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, is it true that you don’t serve my gods or worship the gold statue  I have set up?


You are to say this to them: ‘The gods that did not make the heavens  and the earth will perish from the earth  and from under these heavens.’


They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.





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