Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 50:1 (show verse)
The word the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
Jeremiah 50:2 (show verse)
proclaim and raise up a signal flag;
proclaim, and hide nothing.
Say: Babylon is captured;
Bel
Marduk is devastated;
her idols are put to shame;
her false gods, devastated.
Jeremiah 50:3 (show verse)
it will make her land desolate.
No one will be living in it—
both man and beast will escape.
Jeremiah 50:4 (show verse)
this is the Lord’s declaration—
the Israelites and Judeans will come together,
weeping as they come,
and will seek the Lord their God.
Afflicted saints » Should turn and devote themselves to God
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Restoration of the jews from
Backsliders » Return of
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Unity » Prophesied, as a mark of the progress of true religion » Contrition unifies believers
Weeping » Penitential
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Restoration of the jews from
Backsliders » Return of
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Unity » Prophesied, as a mark of the progress of true religion » Contrition unifies believers
Weeping » Penitential
Jeremiah 50:5 (show verse)
turning their faces to this road.
They will come and join themselves
in an everlasting covenant
Backsliders » Return of
Church » Zion
Covenant » Of man with God » israelites
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Church » Zion
Covenant » Of man with God » israelites
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Pray for direction
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Have their faces toward zion
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
Jeremiah 50:6 (show verse)
their shepherds have led them astray,
guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.
They have wandered from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place.
Backsliders » Return of
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Lost » Power » Sheep
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Sheep » Figurative » Of backsliders
Lost sheep » Sinners regarded as lost sheep
Shepherds » Illustrative » (ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers
Shepherds » FALSE » Lead the sheep astray
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
FALSE » Shepherds » Lead the sheep astray
Forgetting » Those that forget the lord
Israel/jews » Israel becoming lost
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Lost » Power » Sheep
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
Sheep » Figurative » Of backsliders
Lost sheep » Sinners regarded as lost sheep
Shepherds » Illustrative » (ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers
Shepherds » FALSE » Lead the sheep astray
Shepherds/pastors » False shepherds/pastors
FALSE » Shepherds » Lead the sheep astray
Jeremiah 50:7 (show verse)
Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty;
instead, they have sinned against the Lord,
their righteous grazing land,
the hope of their ancestors,
Jeremiah 50:8 (show verse)
depart from the Chaldeans’ land.
Be like the rams that lead the flock.
Jeremiah 50:9 (show verse)
an assembly of great nations from the north country.
They will line up in battle formation against her;
from there she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like those of a skilled
who does not return empty-handed.
Jeremiah 50:10 (show verse)
all Babylon’s plunderers will be fully satisfied.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:11 (show verse)
because you sing in triumph—
you who plundered My inheritance—
because you frolic like a young cow treading grain
and neigh like stallions,
Jeremiah 50:12 (show verse)
she who bore you will be put to shame.
Look! She will lag behind all
a dry land, a wilderness,
Jeremiah 50:13 (show verse)
she will not be inhabited;
she will become a desolation, every bit of her.
Everyone who passes through Babylon
will be horrified
and scoff because of all her wounds.
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Jeremiah 50:14 (show verse)
all you archers!
Shoot at her! Do not spare an arrow,
for she has sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:15 (show verse)
She has thrown up her hands in surrender;
her defense towers have fallen;
her walls are demolished.
Since this is the Lord’s vengeance,
take out your vengeance on her;
as she has done, do the same to her.
Jeremiah 50:16 (show verse)
as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time.
Because of the oppressor’s sword,
each will turn to his own people,
each will flee to his own land.
Jeremiah 50:17 (show verse)
The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria;
the last one who crushed his bones
was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:18 (show verse)
Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.
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Jeremiah 50:19 (show verse)
and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan;
he will be satisfied
in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.
Jeremiah 50:20 (show verse)
this is the Lord’s declaration—
one will search for Israel’s guilt,
but there will be none,
and for Judah’s sins,
but they will not be found,
for I will forgive
Jeremiah 50:21 (show verse)
and against those living in Pekod.
Put them to the sword;
completely destroy them—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
do everything I have commanded you.
Jeremiah 50:22 (show verse)
a great destruction.
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Jeremiah 50:23 (show verse)
is cut down and smashed!
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:24 (show verse)
but you did not even know it.
You were found and captured
because you fought against the Lord.
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Jeremiah 50:25 (show verse)
and brought out His weapons of wrath,
because it is a task of the Lord God of Hosts
in the land of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 50:26 (show verse)
Open her granaries;
pile her up like mounds of grain
and completely destroy her.
Leave her no survivors.
Jeremiah 50:27 (show verse)
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, because their day has come,
the time of their punishment.
Jeremiah 50:28 (show verse)
from the land of Babylon
announcing in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
the vengeance for His temple.
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Jeremiah 50:29 (show verse)
all who string the bow;
camp all around her; let none escape.
Repay her according to her deeds;
just as she has done, do the same to her,
for she has acted arrogantly against the Lord,
against the Holy One of Israel.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:30 (show verse)
in her public squares;
all the warriors will perish in that day.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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Jeremiah 50:31 (show verse)
this is the declaration of
the Lord God of Hosts—
because your day has come,
the time when I will punish you.
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Jeremiah 50:32 (show verse)
with no one to pick him up.
I will set fire to his cities,
and it will consume everything around him.”
Jeremiah 50:33 (show verse)
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:
Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed.
All their captors hold them fast;
they refuse to release them.
All their captors hold them fast;
they refuse to release them.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:34 (show verse)
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
He will fervently plead their case
so that He might bring rest to the earth
but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:35 (show verse)
this is the Lord’s declaration—
against those who live in Babylon,
against her officials, and against her sages.
Jeremiah 50:36 (show verse)
and they will act foolishly.
A sword is against her heroic warriors,
and they will be terrified.
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Jeremiah 50:37 (show verse)
and against all the foreigners among them,
and they will be like women.
A sword is against her treasuries,
and they will be plundered.
Jeremiah 50:38 (show verse)
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.
Jeremiah 50:39 (show verse)
and ostriches will also live in her.
It will never again be inhabited
or lived in through all generations.
Jeremiah 50:40 (show verse)
and their neighboring towns
this is the Lord’s declaration—
so no one will live there;
no human being will even stay in it
as a temporary resident.
Jeremiah 50:41 (show verse)
A great nation and many kings will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.
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Jeremiah 50:42 (show verse)
They are cruel and show no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea,
and they ride on horses,
lined up like men in battle formation
against you, Daughter Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:43 (show verse)
and his hands fall helpless.
Distress has seized him—
pain, like a woman in labor.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 50:44 (show verse)
“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. Indeed, I will chase Babylon away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like Me? Who will summon Me? Who is the shepherd who can stand against Me?”
Jeremiah 50:45 (show verse)
Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Certainly the flock’s little lambs will be dragged away; certainly the grazing land will be made desolate because of them.
Jeremiah 50:46 (show verse)
At the sound of Babylon’s conquest the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.