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.
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.
They will fall(F) down slain in Babylon,[b]
    fatally wounded in her streets.(G)

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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

And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

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