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Jeremiah 51:2-4
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Jeremiah 51:2-4
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2 I will send foreigners to winnow[a] Babylon,
and they will take everything from the city.
Armies will surround the city,
and there will be terrible destruction.
3 The Babylonian soldiers will not get to use their bows and arrows.
They will not even put on their armor.
Don’t feel sorry for the soldiers of Babylon.
Destroy her army completely!
4 Babylon’s soldiers will be killed in the land of the Chaldeans.
They will be badly wounded in the streets of Babylon.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:2 winnow To separate grain from the hulls around it. Farmers threw the grain with the hulls into the air. The wind blew the hulls away and left the good grain.
Jeremiah 51:2-4
New International Version
Jeremiah 51:2-4
New International Version
2 I will send foreigners(A) to Babylon
to winnow(B) her and to devastate her land;
they will oppose her on every side
in the day(C) of her disaster.
3 Let not the archer string his bow,(D)
nor let him put on his armor.(E)
Do not spare her young men;
completely destroy[a] her army.
4 They will fall(F) down slain in Babylon,[b]
fatally wounded in her streets.(G)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
- Jeremiah 51:4 Or Chaldea
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