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God’s Judgment on Babylon

21 “Go up against the land of Merathaim[a]
    and the inhabitants of Pekod.[b]
Kill them with swords, and completely destroy them,”
    declares the Lord,
        “and do everything that I’ve commanded you.
22 The noise of battle is in the land,
    and great destruction.
23 How the hammer of all the earth is cut off and broken!
    How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:21 Merathaim was an area in southern Mesopotamia; the Heb. word means double rebellion
  2. Jeremiah 50:21 Pekod was a region in southern Mesopotamia; the Heb. word means punishment