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51 This is what Yahweh says:

I will stir up a destructive wind against Babylon
    and against the people who live in Leb Kamai.
I will send people to winnow[a] Babylon,
    to winnow it and strip its land bare.
    They will attack it from every direction on the day of trouble.
Have the archers bend their bows.
    Have them put on their armor.
        Don’t spare Babylon’s young men.
            Completely destroy its whole army.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:2 Winnowing is the process of separating husks from grain.

51 This is what the Lord says:

“See, I will stir(A) up the spirit of a destroyer
    against Babylon(B) and the people of Leb Kamai.[a]
I will send foreigners(C) to Babylon
    to winnow(D) her and to devastate her land;
they will oppose her on every side
    in the day(E) of her disaster.
Let not the archer string his bow,(F)
    nor let him put on his armor.(G)
Do not spare her young men;
    completely destroy[b] her army.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:1 Leb Kamai is a cryptogram for Chaldea, that is, Babylonia.
  2. Jeremiah 51:3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.