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Jeremiah 50:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country. They will line up in battle formation against her; from there she will be captured. Their arrows will be like a skilled   warrior who does not return empty-handed.

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Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes because his plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the  Lord’s vengeance, vengeance for his temple.


Summon the archers to Babylon, all who string the bow; camp all round her; let none escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do the same to her, for she has acted arrogantly against the  Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.


Come against her from the most distant places. Open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain and completely destroy her. Leave her no survivors.


Attack the land of Merathaim, and those living in Pekod. Put them to the sword; completely destroy them – this is the  Lord’s declaration – do everything I have commanded you.


Line up in battle formation round Babylon, all you archers! Shoot at her! Do not spare an arrow, for she has sinned against the  Lord.


For a nation from the north will attack her; it will make her land desolate. No one will be living in it – both people and animals will escape.  ,


Then I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know, for my anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.


‘I have stirred up one from the north,  and he has come, one from the east  who invokes my   name. He will march over rulers as if they were mud, like a potter who treads the clay.


A troubling vision is declared to me: ‘The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.’


Jonathan’s bow never retreated, Saul’s sword never returned unstained, from the blood of the slain, from the flesh  of the mighty.


All of them are skilled with swords and trained in warfare. Each has his sword at his side to guard against the terror of the night.


For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.” ’


all the kings of the north, both near and far from one another; that is, all the kingdoms of the world throughout the earth. Finally, the king of Sheshak  , will drink after them.





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