For behold, I am going to (A)rouse and bring up against Babylon
A contingent of great nations from the land of the north,
And they will draw up their battle lines against her;
From there she will be taken captive.
Their arrows will be like [a]an expert warrior
Who does not return empty-handed.
10 [b](B)Chaldea will become plunder;
All who plunder her will have enough,” declares the Lord.

11 “Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
You who (C)pillage My heritage,
Because you skip about [c]like a threshing (D)heifer
And neigh like [d]stallions,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:9 As in some mss and ancient versions; MT a warrior who makes childless
  2. Jeremiah 50:10 Or the Chaldeans
  3. Jeremiah 50:11 Another reading is in the grass
  4. Jeremiah 50:11 Lit mighty ones

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