Jeremiah 50:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 raise the war cry against it on every side.
It surrenders, its bastions fall,
its walls are torn down:[a]
This is retribution from the Lord! Take retribution on her,
as she has done, do to her;
for she sinned against the Lord.(A)
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon
and those who wield sickles at harvest time!
Before the destroying sword,
all of them turn back to their own people,
all flee to their own land.(B)
17 Israel was a stray sheep
that lions pursued;
The king of Assyria once devoured him;
now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.(C)
Footnotes
- 50:15 Its walls are torn down: the prophet describes the downfall of Babylon in conventional language. Babylon surrendered peacefully to the Persians in 539 B.C.
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