Jeremiah 50:43-45

Good News Translation

⁴³The king of Babylonia hears the news,
    and his hands hang limp.
    He is seized by anguish,
    by pain like a woman in labor.

⁴⁴“Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan up to the green pasture land, I, the Lord, will come and make the Babylonians run away suddenly from their city. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me? ⁴⁵So listen to the plan that I have made against the city of Babylon and to what I intend to do to its people. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.

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