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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!
Babylon’s soldiers will be killed in the land of the Chaldeans.
    They will be badly wounded in the streets of Babylon.”

The Lord All-Powerful did not leave Israel and Judah alone, like a widow.
    No, they are guilty of leaving the Holy One of Israel.
Their God did not leave them.
    They left him!

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