Jeremiah 50

Jeremiah 50:2

Say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are consumed, her images are broken in pieces.

That Babylon, which hath been a scourge to my people, and to all the nations round about, is now taken itself, and seized upon in my wrath: their great idol, Bel, in whom they trusted, is confounded; their great monarch is overthrown; and all their petty gods and images are broke in pieces.

Jeremiah 50:3

For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her.

For the mighty nation of the Medes and Persians shall come up against her.

Jeremiah 50:4

In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD.

In those days the children of Israel and the children of Judah shall, through the favour of the Persian monarchs, go up together, weeping for joy, to return to their country, and to the place of God’s worship and service.

Jeremiah 50:6

My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

Their kings and priests and prophets have misled them into abominable idolatries: they have seduced them to superstitious devotions, on their high places; persuading them to go, one while to one idol, another while to another, till they had forgotten the temple of God, to which God had appointed them to confine their service.

Jeremiah 50:8

Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

Get you gone, O ye Jews; go, with joy and gladness, out of Chaldea, the land of your captivity; and go forth with courage and speed, as the he-goats are wont to go before the rest of the flock.

Jeremiah 50:12

Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindernost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Your mother city, Babylon, shall be sore confounded, &c., and Chaldea, which was the queen of all nations, shall now be cast behind all the rest, and become a very wilderness, a barren desert.

Jeremiah 50:16

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handletth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every man to his own land.

Spare not so much as the husbandman, that soweth the corn in the fields of Babylon, or the reaper thereof: let no man escape, though never so harmless, or never so useful: as for the hired forces, they shall run away, every one to his own home.

Jeremiah 50:19

And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, &c.

I will bring Israel back from his captivity to his own land; and he shall now be as a sheep grazing upon the fruitful hills of Carmel and Bashan, &c.

Jeremiah 50:20

In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

There shall not be found in Israel those sins, and that heinous iniquity, which was the cause of their late captivity; and the sins of Judah shall be done away, through my grace and mercy.

Jeremiah 50:21

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod; waste and utterly destroy after them.

Go up, ye Medes and Persians, against the territories of Babylon; even against the land of these proud rebels, against the land of those who have visited my people with the sword and merciless destruction, and do ye utterly destroy them.

Jeremiah 50:23

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken?

How is it, that Babylon, which was the hammer to beat all other nations in pieces, is now broken in pieces?

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword shall be upon the liars.

A sword shall be upon their lying astrologers and diviners, unto whom they trusted.

Jeremiah 50:44

He shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan, &c.

See chapter xlix. 19. Behold the Babylonians shall come up, &c.