The Lord Has Jeremiah Declare Babylon Will Be Captured |
Jeremiah 50:1-46 The Book of Jeremiah [in Smaller Chunks] |
The Word that the Lord [spoke to] Jeremiah, the prophet, against: Babylon & the land of the Chaldeans. You, declare & [proclaim] among the nations & [put] up a [banner] & [proclaim & don't] conceal it. Say, Babylon is [captured,] Bel is [confused] & Merodach is broken in pieces. |
Her idols are [perplexed] & her images are broken in pieces. For a nation against her, comes up out of the North, [that] shall make her land desolate & none shall dwell [in there.] |
Both man & [animal] shall [move] & depart. [During] that time, in those days, says the Lord, The children [people] of Israel & Judah shall come, they & their children together, [coming while] weeping. They shall go & seek the Lord their God. |
They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces [toward it,] saying, Come & let's join ourselves to the Lord in a [continual] covenant [contract] that shall not be forgotten. My people [have] been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. |
[Jeremiah 31:33 *But this shall be the covenant [contract] that I will make with the house of Israel. The Lord says, After those days, I will put My Law [within] their hearts & will be their God & they shall be My people.] |
They have turned them away on the mountains & they have [wandered] from mountain to hill & have forgotten their resting place. [Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, [who] come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly, they are [ravenous] wolves.] |
All, [who] have found them, have devoured them. And their [enemies] said, We [didn't] offend, because they have sinned against the Lord, even the Lord, the hope of their [forefathers, where] Justice [resides.] |
[Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore, say, The Lord God says [this;] Although I have [thrown] them: far [away from] among the heathen & have scattered them among the countries, [still] I will be to them [like] a little sanctuary, where they shall come [to,] in the countries.] |
Remove [yourselves from] the midst of Babylon & go out of the land of the Chaldeans & be [like] the [male] goats, [in front of] the flocks. [Isaiah 48:20 You, go [out] of Babylon & flee from the Chaldeans & you declare with [the sound] of singing & tell this even to the [furthest ends] of the earth & say, The Lord has redeemed His servant, Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel.] |
For [look,] I will raise an assembly of great nations from the North country & cause [them] to come up against Babylon. And they shall [put] themselves in [battle order] against her. From [there,] she shall be [captured.] Their arrows shall be [like those] of a mighty expert [archer.] None shall return [without success.] |
And Chaldea shall be [plundered.] All [who plunder] her shall be satisfied, says the Lord. [Jeremiah 51:3-6 Let the archer bend his bow, against him, who bends & against him, [who magnifies] himself in his [armor.] And [don't] you spare her young men & you [shall totally] destroy all her [army.] |
[Like this,] the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans & [those who] are thrust through [shall fall] in her streets. For [neither] Israel, nor Judah, have been [abandoned] by his God, the Lord of Hosts, [although] their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. |
Flee out of the midst of Babylon & every man deliver his [life.] [Don't] be cut off in her [sinfulness;] for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance & He will [give repayment] to her.] |
Because you were glad & rejoiced, O you destroyers of My heritage, you [have] grown fat [like] the heifer [in] grass & bellow [like] bulls & your mother shall be [very confused.] She, [who bore] you shall be ashamed. [Look,] the [least] of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land & a desert. |
[Jeremiah 51:42-43 The sea [has] come up upon Babylon & she's covered with [a] multitude of [its] waves. Her cities are [desolate:] a dry land, a wilderness & a land [in which] no man [lives.] Neither does any son of man pass [by there.] |
It shall not be inhabited, because of the [Lord's anger,] but it shall be [totally] desolate. Everyone, [who] goes by Babylon shall be astonished & hiss at all her plagues. [Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall [happen,] when 70 years are [finished,] that I will punish that nation [of] [Babylon's] king, & the land of the Chaldeans for their [sinfulness] & will make it [continually desolate,] says the Lord.] |
Put yourselves in [battle order all around] against Babylon. All you, [who] bend the bow, shoot at her & [don't] spare [any] arrows: for she has sinned against the Lord. [Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, [look,] the days come, that I will [bring] judgment upon the [carved] images of Babylon & her whole land shall be [ashamed.] And all her [killed] shall fall in the midst of her.] |
[All around,] shout against her. She has given her hand & her foundations [have] fallen & her walls are thrown down. For it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her; [just] as she has done [to you,] do to her. [Lamentations 15:6 We have given the hand [in a deal] to the Egyptians & Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.] |
Cut off the [person, who sows seeds] from Babylon & him, [who] handles the sickle [at] the time of harvest. Everyone shall turn to his people & they shall flee to his own land, for fear of the sword & oppression. |
[Revelation 18:4-5 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, [so] that you [aren't participants] of her sins, [so] that you [don't] receive her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven & God has remembered her iniquities.] |
Israel [are] scattered sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, [Assyria's] king has devoured him & [lastly,] Nebuchadrezzar, [a.k.a. Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon's] king, has broken his bones. [2 Kings 25:5-7 And the [Chaldean] army pursued after king Zedekiah] & overtook him in the Plains of Jericho. And all his army were scattered from him. |
So, they [seized] the king & brought him up to the king of Babylon, [in] Riblah. And they [passed] judgment on him. And they [killed Zedekiah's] sons, [in front of] his eyes & put out the eyes of Zedekiah & bound him with brass [chains] & carried him to Babylon.] |
Therefore, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says [this; Watch,] I will punish the king of Babylon & his land, [like] I have punished [Assyria's] king. And I will [return] Israel again to his habitation & he shall [eat food from] Carmel & Bashan & his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim & Gilead. |
The Lord says, In those days, [during] that time, the iniquity of Israel & the sin of Judah shall be sought for & there shall be none & they shall not be found: for I will pardon, [those] whom I [set aside.] |
[John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that [whoever] believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God [didn't send] His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.] |
The Lord says, Go up, even against the land of: Merathaim & the [residents] of Pekod & waste & [totally] destroy them & do according to all that I have commanded you. [Ezekiel 23:23-24 And all of [those] riding on horses: the Babylonians & all the Chaldeans; Pekod; Shoa; Koa; & all the Assyrians with them. All of them: desirable young men; captains, rulers, great lords [of fame.] |
And they shall come against you with: chariots; wagons; wheels; & with [a multitude] of people, [who] shall [put: armor;] shield; & helmet against you. And I will [put] judgment before them & they shall judge you according to their judgments.] |
A battle sound of great destruction is in the land. How the hammer [has smashed] the whole earth & [has] cut & [broken it to pieces!] Babylon, [has] become a desolation among the nations! I have laid a [trap] for you & you are also [captured,] O Babylon & you [weren't] aware. |
You are found & also caught, because you have [quarreled] against the Lord. The Lord has opened His armory & has brought [out] the weapons of His indignation, for this is the work of the Lord God of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. [Isaiah 13:5 They come from a [distant] country, from the end of heaven & even the Lord & the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole land.] |
Come against her from the [furthest] border & open her storehouses. [Throw] her up [like ruinous] heaps & [totally] destroy her. Let nothing of her be left. Slay all her [bulls] & let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day [has] come & the time of their visitation, [a.k.a. punishment.] |
Declare in Zion the [sound] of [those who] flee & escape out of the land of Babylon [during] the vengeance of the Lord our God & the vengeance of His temple. |
[Ezekiel 23:37-39 They have committed adultery & blood is [on] their hands & they have committed adultery with their idols & have also caused their sons, whom they [bore] to Me, to pass through the fire, to devour them, for [their idols.] [Additionally, they have done this to Me. They have defiled My sanctuary & [on] the same day, have [defiled] My Sabbaths. |
For when they had [sacrificed] their children to their idols, they then came the same day into My sanctuary to [defile] it. And, [look,] they have done [this] in the midst of [My] house.] |
Call the archers together against Babylon. All you, [who] bend the bow, camp against it [all around.] Let none of [them] escape. [Repay] her according to her: [deeds] & all she has done, do [also] to her. For she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel. |
[Revelation 18:5-6 For her sins have reached to heaven & God has remembered her iniquities. Reward her even, [like] she rewarded you & double to her, according to double her [deeds:] in the cup which she has filled, fill to her double.] |
Therefore, the Lord says, In all her streets: her young men & all her men of war shall be cut off [on] that day. The Lord God of Hosts says, [Look,] I am against you, O most proud. For your day [has] come & the time that I will visit, [a.k.a. punish] you. |
And the most proud shall stumble & fall & [no one] shall [pick] them up. And I will [start] a fire in his cities & it shall devour all [around] him. [Isaiah 26:5 For He brings down [those who] dwell on high. He lays low, the lofty city, even to the ground & He brings it even to the [dirt.] |
The Lord of Hosts says [this;] The children [people] of: Israel & Judah were oppressed together. And all, [who] took them [captive,] held them [tight] & they refused to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong. The Lord of Hosts is His Name. |
He shall thoroughly plead their [case, so] that He may give rest to the land & [take away the peace] of [Babylon's residents.] [Isaiah 14:3 And it shall [happen on] the day, that the Lord shall give you rest from your: sorrow, fear & the hard bondage, [in which] you were made to serve.] |
The Lord says, A sword is upon the Chaldeans & [Babylon's residents:] princes & upon her wise men. [Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make drunk, her: princes, wise men, cpatians, rulers & her mighty men. And they shall sleep a [continual] sleep & shall not awake, says the King, Whose Name is the Lord of Hosts.] |
A sword is upon the liars & [those who show affection to] a sword shall [be] upon her mighty men & they shall be [discouraged.] [Ezekiel 23:5 And Aholah, [a.k.a. Samaria,] played the [unfaithful] harlot, when she was Mine. And she [showed affection] on her lovers, the Assyrians, her neighbors.] |
A sword is upon their: horses; chariots; & the [mixed] people, [who] are in the midst of her. And they shall become [like] women. A sword is upon her treasures & they shall be robbed. [Isaiah 19:16-17 [On] that day, Egypt shall be [similar] to women & shall be afraid & [fearful,] because of the Lord of [Hosts'] hand shaking [at them.] |
A drought is upon her waters & they shall be dried up, [because] it is the land of [carved] images & they are [insane with] their idols. Therefore, the wild [animals] of the desert, with the wild [animals] of the islands & owls shall dwell there. And it shall no [longer] be inhabited forever. |
Neither shall it be [lived] in from generation to generation. The Lord says, No man shall [remain] there & neither shall any son of man dwell [there like] [when] God overthrew Sodom & Gomorrah & [its neighboring] cities. [Watch,] a people & a great nation shall come from the North. And many kings shall be raised up from the [ends] of the earth. |
They shall hold the [archer's] bow & the [spear]. They are cruel & won't show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea & they shall ride upon horses & everyone [put] in [battle order,] like a man [for] the battle against you, O daughter of Babylon. |
[Babylon's] king has heard the report of them & his hands [grew] feeble & anguish took hold of him, [like] a woman in [labor.] [Look,] he shall come up like a lion from the swelling Jordan [River,] into the [living places] of the strong. But I will suddenly make them run away from her. |
And who is a chosen man, that I may appoint [him] over her? For who is like Me? And who will [schedule] a time for Me? And who is that shepherd, [who] will stand before Me? |
Therefore, you [listen to] the [advice] of the Lord, that He has taken against Babylon & [to] His [plan] that He has [intended] against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely, the least of the flock shall draw them out. Surely, He shall make their [places to reside] desolate, [along] with them. |
[Psalm 33:11-12 The counsel of the Lord stands forever & the thoughts of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord & the people whom He has chosen for His Own inheritance.] |
The [out] cry is heard among the nations & the earth [trembles,] at the [sound] of [capturing] Babylon. |