English Standard Version

Jeremiah 50:33-41 English Standard Version (ESV)

33. “Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.

34. Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

35. “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord,and against the inhabitants of Babylon,and against her officials and her wise men!

36. A sword against the diviners,that they may become fools!A sword against her warriors,that they may be destroyed!

37. A sword against her horses and against her chariots,and against all the foreign troops in her midst,that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures,that they may be plundered!

38. A drought against her waters,that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images,and they are mad over idols.

39. “Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.

40. As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

41. “Behold, a people comes from the north;a mighty nation and many kingsare stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.