Let not the archer string his bow,
    nor let him put on his armour.
Do not spare her young men;
    completely destroy[a] her army.
They will fall down slain in Babylon,[b]
    fatally wounded in her streets.
For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken
    by their God, the Lord Almighty,
though their land[c] is full of guilt
    before the Holy One of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
  2. Jeremiah 51:4 Or Chaldea
  3. Jeremiah 51:5 Or Almighty, / and the land of the Babylonians