behold, I will (A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will [a]utterly destroy them and (C)make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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  1. Jeremiah 25:9 Or put them under the ban

“For behold, I am going to (A)arouse and bring up against Babylon
A horde 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.

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  1. Jeremiah 50:9 So some mss and versions; M.T. reads a warrior who makes childless