Jeremiah 50:2-11
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“Announce and proclaim among the nations,
lift up a banner and proclaim it;
keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;
Bel will be put to shame,
Marduk filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame
and her idols filled with terror.’
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A nation from the north will attack her
and lay waste her land.
No one will live in it;
both men and animals will flee away.
4
“In those days, at that time,”
declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together
will go in tears to seek the Lord their God.
5
They will ask the way to Zion
and turn their faces toward it.
They will come and bind themselves to the Lord
in an everlasting covenant
that will not be forgotten.
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“My people have been lost sheep;
their shepherds have led them astray
and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill
and forgot their own resting place.
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Whoever found them devoured them;
their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,
for they sinned against the Lord, their true pasture,
the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’
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“Flee out of Babylon;
leave the land of the Babylonians,
and be like the goats that lead the flock.
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For I will stir up and bring against Babylon
an alliance of great nations from the land of the north.
They will take up their positions against her,
and from the north she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like skilled warriors
who do not return empty-handed.
10
So Babylonia will be plundered;
all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.
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“Because you rejoice and are glad,
you who pillage my inheritance,
because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain
and neigh like stallions,