Verse 2
Jeremiah 50:2
King James Version
2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish,
and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַגִּ֨ידוּ בַ/גּוֹיִ֤ם וְ/הַשְׁמִ֨יעוּ֙ וּֽ/שְׂאוּ נֵ֔ס הַשְׁמִ֖יעוּ אַל תְּכַחֵ֑דוּ אִמְרוּ֩ נִלְכְּדָ֨ה בָבֶ֜ל הֹבִ֥ישׁ בֵּל֙ חַ֣ת מְרֹדָ֔ךְ הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ עֲצַבֶּ֔י/הָ חַ֖תּוּ גִּלּוּלֶֽי/הָ
English Translation
Proclaim among the nations and announce, and lift up a banner; announce that Babylon has been captured; Bel has been put to shame; Marduk has been dismayed; her idols have been put to shame; her images have been dismayed.
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Chapter 50 Context
1
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon
and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the p...
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2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish,
and conceal not: say, Bab...
3
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and n...
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4
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the chi...
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5
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,
saying,
Come, and let us join ourselve...
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6
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them...
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7
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have...
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8
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he...
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9
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the nor...
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10
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.
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11
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fa...
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12
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of...
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13
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every o...
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14
Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare n...
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15
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are th...
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16
Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of...
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17
Israel
is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven
him
away: first the king of Assyria hath devoure...
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18
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God (Elohim) of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king o...
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19
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his sou...
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20
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and
the...
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21
Go up against the land of Merathaim,
even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste an...
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22
A sound of battle
is in the land, and of great destruction.
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23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation amon...
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24
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art...
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25
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this
is...
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26
Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her...
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27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the...
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28
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance...
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29
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; le...
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30
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that d...
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31
Behold, I
am against thee,
O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the...
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32
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in...
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33
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah
were oppressed togeth...
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34
Their Redeemer
is strong; the LORD of hosts
is
his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that...
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35
A sword
is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her pri...
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36
A sword
is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword
is upon her mighty men; and they shall be di...
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37
A sword
is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that
are in t...
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38
A drought
is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it
is the land of graven images, and t...
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39
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell
there, and t...
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40
As God (Elohim) overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour
cities
thereof, saith the LORD;
so s...
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41
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up fr...
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42
They shall hold the bow and the lance: they
are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall ro...
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43
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of...
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44
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong:...
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45
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, tha...
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46
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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