These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Jeremiah 50
Tanakh 46 verses
- 1 The that spoke concerning , concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the .
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Declare ye among the nations and announce, And set up a standard; Announce, and conceal not; Say: ‘ is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.’
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Isaiah 46:1 Isaiah 21:9 Jeremiah 51:44 Jeremiah 51:47 Jeremiah 4:16 Jeremiah 43:12-13 Revelation 14:6-8 Psalm 96:3 Jeremiah 6:18 Jeremiah 52:31 Psalm 64:9 Isaiah 13:2 Isaiah 39:1 Revelation 18:2 Jeremiah 31:10 Isaiah 37:19 Isaiah 12:4 Jeremiah 46:14 Jeremiah 51:52 Isaiah 66:18-19 Jeremiah 50:46 Jeremiah 51:8 Zephaniah 2:11 Jeremiah 51:31 Isaiah 48:6 -
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For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And none shall dwell therein; They are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.
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In those days, and in that time, saith , The children of shall come, They and the children of together; They shall go on their way weeping, And shall seek their .
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Hosea 3:5 Hosea 1:11 Isaiah 11:12-13 Ezra 3:12-13 Jeremiah 31:31 Zechariah 12:10 Ezekiel 37:16-22 Psalm 105:4 Ezekiel 39:25 Jeremiah 31:6-7 Joel 2:12 Jeremiah 30:10-11 Isaiah 63:4 Isaiah 45:19 Isaiah 55:6 Jeremiah 50:19-20 Jeremiah 33:15 Jeremiah 51:47-48 James 4:9 Jeremiah 33:6-8 Psalm 126:4-6 Jeremiah 3:16-18 Jeremiah 31:9-10 Zechariah 8:21-23 Jeremiah 50:33-34 Isaiah 14:1 Jeremiah 29:12-14 - 5 They shall inquire concerning With their faces hitherward: ‘Come ye, and join yourselves to In an that shall not be forgotten.’
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My people hath been lost sheep; Their shepherds have caused them to go astray, They have turned them away on the mountains; They have gone from mountain to hill, They have forgotten their resting-place.
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Isaiah 53:6 Matthew 9:36 Matthew 10:6 Jeremiah 50:17 Ezekiel 34:14 Psalm 119:176 Psalm 23:2 Jeremiah 3:6 Jeremiah 2:32 Psalm 90:1 Psalm 116:7 Jeremiah 10:21 Song of Solomon 1:7-8 Jeremiah 50:19 Jeremiah 23:11-15 1 Peter 2:25 Isaiah 30:15 Matthew 18:10-13 Ezekiel 34:4-12 Jeremiah 3:23 Psalm 91:1 Zechariah 11:4-9 Matthew 15:24 Luke 15:4-7 Isaiah 56:10-12 Ezekiel 34:25-28 Jeremiah 2:20 Isaiah 32:2 Psalm 32:7 - 7 All that found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said: ‘We are not guilty’; Because they have sinned against , the habitation of justice, Even , the of their fathers.
- 8 Flee out of the midst of , And go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, And be as the he-goats before the flocks.
- 9 For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against An of great nations from the north country; And they shall set themselves in array against her, From thence she shall be taken; Their arrows shall be as of a mighty man that maketh childless; None shall return in vain.
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And Chaldea shall be a spoil; All that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith .
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Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder My heritage, Because ye gambol as a heifer at grass, And neigh as strong horses;
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Isaiah 47:6 Psalm 22:12 Jeremiah 5:8 Deuteronomy 32:15 Lamentations 2:15-16 Isaiah 10:6-7 Proverbs 17:5 Psalm 83:1-5 Lamentations 1:21 Zechariah 14:12 Obadiah 1:12 Psalm 79:1-4 Ezekiel 25:15-17 Hosea 10:11 Ezekiel 26:2-3 Jeremiah 50:27 Lamentations 4:21-22 Jeremiah 51:34-35 Jeremiah 50:17 Zechariah 14:1-3 Amos 4:1 Zechariah 2:8-9 Jeremiah 5:28 Ezekiel 25:3-8 Jeremiah 46:21 Psalm 74:2-8 - 12 Your mother shall be sore ashamed, She that bore you shall be confounded; Behold, the hindermost of the nations Shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- 13 Because of the wrath of it shall not be inhabited, But it shall be wholly desolate; Every one that goeth by Shall be appalled and hiss at all her plagues.
- 14 Set yourselves in array against round about, All ye that bend the bow, Shoot at her, spare no arrows; For she hath sinned against .
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Shout against her round about, she hath submitted herself; Her buttresses are fallen, her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of , take vengeance upon her; As she hath done, do unto her.
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Jeremiah 51:58 Jeremiah 51:6 Revelation 18:6 Jeremiah 46:10 Jeremiah 51:44 1 Chronicles 29:24 2 Chronicles 30:8 Lamentations 5:6 Jeremiah 51:14 Jeremiah 51:11 Deuteronomy 32:41 Ezekiel 17:18 Nahum 1:2 Deuteronomy 32:35 Isaiah 63:4 Jeremiah 50:28-29 Jeremiah 50:14 Jeremiah 51:64 Psalm 137:8-9 James 2:13 Psalm 94:1 Psalm 149:7 Deuteronomy 32:43 Judges 1:6-7 Matthew 7:2 Joshua 6:20 Luke 21:22 Romans 12:19 Revelation 19:2 Revelation 16:6 Isaiah 59:17 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Ezekiel 21:22 1 Samuel 15:33 Isaiah 61:2 Joshua 6:5 Jeremiah 51:25 Romans 3:5 Jeremiah 51:36 -
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Cut off the sower from , And him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest; For of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, And they shall flee every one to his own land.
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is a scattered sheep, The lions have driven him away; First the of hath devoured him, And last this Nebuchadrezzar of hath broken his bones.
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Jeremiah 2:15 Jeremiah 50:6 Joel 3:2 2 Kings 18:9-13 John 10:10-12 Isaiah 36:1-22 Ezekiel 34:5-6 Daniel 6:24 2 Kings 17:6-23 Jeremiah 39:1-8 Jeremiah 5:6 2 Chronicles 32:1-23 2 Kings 24:1 Isaiah 8:7-8 Ezekiel 34:12 Jeremiah 49:19 Jeremiah 4:7 2 Kings 15:29 Luke 15:4-6 Jeremiah 23:1-2 1 Peter 2:25 2 Chronicles 33:11 Jeremiah 52:1 2 Chronicles 36:1-23 2 Chronicles 28:20 Isaiah 10:5-7 Isaiah 7:17-20 Jeremiah 51:38 Isaiah 47:6 Jeremiah 51:34-35 Matthew 9:36-38 -
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Therefore thus saith of hosts, the of : Behold, I will punish the of and his land, As I have punished the of .
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And I will bring back to his pasture, And he shall feed on Carmel and , And his shall be satisfied upon the hills of and in .
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Micah 7:14 Jeremiah 31:6 Ezekiel 34:13-14 Ezekiel 36:33 Amos 9:14-15 Jeremiah 30:18 Song of Solomon 6:5 Isaiah 65:9-10 Jeremiah 32:37 Jeremiah 23:3 Jeremiah 50:4-5 Jeremiah 3:18 Jeremiah 31:14 Joshua 17:15 Jeremiah 30:10 Ezekiel 36:24 Obadiah 1:17-21 Jeremiah 31:25 Isaiah 35:2 Ezekiel 11:17 Numbers 32:1 Jeremiah 31:8-10 Micah 7:18 Jeremiah 24:6-7 Jeremiah 33:7-12 Ezekiel 37:21-22 Ezekiel 38:8 Ezekiel 39:25-29 Isaiah 33:9 -
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In those days, and in that time, saith , The iniquity of shall be sought for, and there shall be none, And the sins of , and they shall not be found; For I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
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- 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod; Waste and utterly destroy after them, saith , And do according to all that I have commanded thee.
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Hark! battle is in the land, And great destruction.
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How is the hammer of the whole earth Cut asunder and broken! How is become A desolation among the nations!
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- 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O , And thou wast not aware; Thou art found, and also caught, Because thou hast striven against .
- 25 The hath opened His armoury, And hath brought forth the weapons of His indignation; For it is a work that of hosts Hath to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
- 26 Come against her from every quarter, open her granaries, Cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left.
- 27 Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter; Woe unto them! for their day is come, The time of their visitation.
- 28 Hark! they flee and escape out of the land of , To declare in the vengeance of our , The vengeance of His .
- 29 Call together the archers against , All them that bend the bow; Encamp against her round about, Let none thereof escape; Recompense her according to her work, According to all that she hath done, do unto her: For she hath been arrogant against , Against the Holy One of .
- 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her broad places, And all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, Saith .
- 31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most arrogant, Saith of hosts; For thy day is come, The time that I will punish thee.
- 32 And the most arrogant shall stumble and fall, And none shall raise him up; And I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it shall devour all that are round about him.
- 33 Thus saith of hosts: The children of and the children of are oppressed together; And all that took them captives hold them fast; They refuse to let them go.
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Their Redeemer is strong, The of hosts is His ; He will thoroughly plead their cause, That He may give rest to the earth, And disquiet the inhabitants of .
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A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith , And upon the inhabitants of , and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
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A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
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Jeremiah 49:22 Isaiah 44:25 Nahum 3:13 Jeremiah 50:30 2 Samuel 17:14 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 Isaiah 43:14 2 Chronicles 25:16 Nahum 3:17-18 Jeremiah 48:30 1 Timothy 6:4 Jeremiah 51:23 2 Samuel 15:31 Revelation 19:20 Isaiah 47:10-15 Revelation 22:15 Jeremiah 51:30 Nahum 2:8 Revelation 21:8 Jeremiah 51:32 1 Timothy 4:2 Nahum 3:7 - 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, And upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her, And they shall become as women; A sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
- 38 A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; For it is a land of graven images, And they are mad upon things of horror.
- 39 Therefore the wild-cats with the jackals shall dwell there, And the ostriches shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
- 40 As when overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And the neighbour cities thereof, saith ; So shall no man abide there, Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
- 41 Behold, a people cometh from the north, And a great nation, and many kings Shall be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.
- 42 They lay hold on bow and spear, They are cruel, and have no compassion; Their voice is like the roaring sea, And they ride upon horses; Set in array, as a man for war, Against thee, O daughter of .
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The of hath heard the fame of them, And his hands wax feeble; Anguish hath taken hold of him, And pain, as of a woman in travail.
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- 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of the Against the strong habitation; For I will suddenly make them run away from it, And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it; For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a time? And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me?
- 45 Therefore ye the counsel of , That He hath taken against , And His purposes, that He hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away, Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them.
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At the noise of the taking of the earth quaketh, And the cry is heard among the nations.
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