40 As God destroyed (A)Sodom and Gomorrah with the places thereof near about, saith the Lord: so shall no man dwell there, neither shall the son of man remain therein.

41 ¶ Behold, a people shall come from the North, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from [a]the coasts of the earth.

42 They shall hold the bow and the buckler: they are cruel and unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, and be put in array like men to the battle against thee, O daughter of Babel.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:41 Meaning, that the Persians should gather their army of many nations.

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