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The Babylonian soldiers will not use their bows and arrows.
    Those soldiers will not even put on their armor.
Don’t feel sorry for the young men of Babylon.
    Completely destroy her army.
Babylon’s soldiers will be killed in Babylon.
    They will be badly injured in Babylon’s streets.
The Lord God of heaven’s armies
    did not leave Israel and Judah alone.
They are fully guilty of leaving the Holy One of Israel.
    But he has not left them.

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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