Jeremiah 50
1 [the] word which to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Babylon to(wards) land: country/planet Chaldea in/on/with hand: by Jeremiah [the] prophet
The word that YHWH has spoken concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:
2 to tell in/on/with nation and to hear: proclaim and to lift: raise ensign to hear: proclaim not to hide to say to capture Babylon be ashamed Bel to to be dismayed Merodach be ashamed idol her to to be dismayed idol her
“Declare among nations, and sound, And lift up an ensign, sound, do not hide, Say, Babylon has been captured, Bel has been put to shame, Merodach has been broken, Her grievous things have been put to shame, Her idols have been broken.
3 for to ascend: rise upon her nation from north he/she/it to set: make [obj] land: country/planet her to/for horror: destroyed and not to be to dwell in/on/with her from man and till animal to wander to go: went
For a nation from the north has come up against her, It makes her land become a desolation, And there is not an inhabitant in it. From man even to beast, They have moved, they have gone.
4 in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) and in/on/with time [the] he/she/it utterance LORD to come (in): come son: descendant/people Israel they(masc.) and son: descendant/people Judah together to go: come and to weep to go: come and [obj] LORD God their to seek
In those days, and at that time,” A declaration of YHWH, “Sons of Israel come in, They and sons of Judah together, Going on and weeping they go, And they seek their God YHWH.
5 Zion to ask way: road here/thus face their to come (in): come and to join to(wards) LORD covenant forever: enduring not to forget
They ask the way [to] Zion, Their faces [are] toward that place: Come in, and we are joined to YHWH, A perpetual covenant—never forgotten.
6 flock to perish (to be *Q(K)*) people my to pasture their to go astray them mountain: mount (turning back them *Q(K)*) from mountain: mount to(wards) hill to go: went to forget rest their
My people have been a perishing flock, Their shepherds have caused them to err, Causing them to go back [on] the mountains, They have gone from mountain to hill, They have forgotten their crouching-place.
7 all to find them to eat them and enemy their to say not be guilty underneath: because of which to sin to/for LORD pasture righteousness and hope father their LORD
All finding them have devoured them, And their adversaries have said: We are not guilty, Because that they sinned against YHWH, The habitation of righteousness, And the hope of their fathers—YHWH.
8 to wander from midst Babylon and from land: country/planet Chaldea (to come out: come *Q(K)*) and to be like/as goat to/for face: before flock
Move from the midst of Babylon, And go out from the land of the Chaldeans; And be as male goats before a flock.
9 for behold I to rouse and to ascend: establish upon Babylon assembly nation great: large from land: country/planet north and to arrange to/for her from there to capture arrow his like/as mighty man be prudent not to return: return emptily
For behold, I am stirring up, And am causing to come up against Babylon, An assembly of great nations from [the] land of the north, And they have set in array against her, From there she is captured, Its arrow—as a skillful hero—does not return empty,
10 and to be Chaldea to/for spoil all to loot her to satisfy utterance LORD
And Chaldea has been for a spoil, All her spoilers are satisfied,” A declaration of YHWH.
11 for (to rejoice *Q(K)*) for (to exult *Q(K)*) to plunder inheritance my for (to leap *Q(K)*) like/as heifer to tread (and to cry out *Q(K)*) like/as mighty: stallion
“Because you rejoice, because you exult, O spoilers of My inheritance, Because you increase as a heifer [at] the tender grass, And cry aloud as bulls,
12 be ashamed mother your much be ashamed to beget you behold end nation wilderness dryness and plain
Your mother has been greatly ashamed, She who bore you has been confounded, Behold, the last of nations [is] a wilderness, A dry land, and a desert.
13 from wrath LORD not to dwell and to be devastation all her all to pass upon Babylon be desolate: appalled and to whistle upon all wound her
Because of the wrath of YHWH it is not inhabited, And it has been a desolation—all of it. Everyone passing by at Babylon is astonished, And hisses because of all her plagues.
14 to arrange upon Babylon around all to tread bow to give thanks to(wards) her not to spare to(wards) arrow for to/for LORD to sin
Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, All you treading a bow, Shoot at her, have no pity on the arrow, For she has sinned against YHWH.
15 to shout upon her around to give: give hand: power her to fall: fall (foundation her *Q(k)*) to overthrow wall her for vengeance LORD he/she/it to avenge in/on/with her like/as as which to make: do to make: do to/for her
Shout against her all around, She has given forth her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls have been thrown down, For it [is] the vengeance of YHWH, Be avenged of her, as she did—do to her.
16 to cut: eliminate to sow from Babylon and to capture sickle in/on/with time harvest from face: before sword [the] to oppress man: anyone to(wards) people his to turn and man: anyone to/for land: country/planet his to flee
Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him handling the sickle in the time of harvest, Because of the oppressing sword, Each to his people—they turn, And each to his land—they flee.
17 sheep to scatter Israel lion to banish [the] first to eat him king Assyria and this [the] last be vast him Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon
Israel [is as] a scattered sheep, Lions have driven [him] away, At first, the king of Asshur devoured him, And now, at last, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bone.
18 to/for so thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel look! I to reckon: punish to(wards) king Babylon and to(wards) land: country/planet his like/as as which to reckon: punish to(wards) king Assyria
Therefore, thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: Behold, I am seeing after the king of Babylon, And after his land, As I have seen after the king of Asshur;
19 and to return: rescue [obj] Israel to(wards) pasture his and to pasture [the] Carmel and [the] Bashan and in/on/with mountain: mount Ephraim and [the] Gilead to satisfy soul: appetite his
And I have brought Israel back to his habitation, And he has fed on Carmel and on Bashan; And his soul is satisfied on Mount Ephraim and on Gilead.
20 in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) and in/on/with time [the] he/she/it utterance LORD to seek [obj] iniquity: crime Israel and nothing he and [obj] sin Judah and not to find for to forgive to/for which to remain
In those days, and at that time,” A declaration of YHWH, “The iniquity of Israel is sought, and it is not, And the sin of Judah, and it is not found, For I am propitious to those whom I leave!
21 upon [the] land: country/planet Merathaim to ascend: rise upon her and to(wards) to dwell Pekod to slay and to devote/destroy after them utterance LORD and to make: do like/as all which to command you
Against the land of Merathaim, go up against it, And to the inhabitants of Pekod, Dry up and devote their posterity,” A declaration of YHWH, “And do according to all that I have commanded you.
22 voice: sound battle in/on/with land: country/planet and breaking great: large
A noise of battle [is] in the land, And of great destruction.
23 how? to cut down/off and to break hammer all [the] land: country/planet how? to be to/for horror: appalled Babylon in/on/with nation
How it has been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How Babylon has been for a desolation among nations!
24 to snare to/for you and also to capture Babylon and you(f. s.) not to know to find and also to capture for in/on/with LORD to stir up
I have laid a snare for you, And you are also captured, O Babylon, And you have known, You have been found, and are also caught, For you have stirred yourself up against YHWH.
25 to open LORD [obj] treasure his and to come out: send [obj] article/utensil indignation his for work he/she/it to/for Lord YHWH/God Hosts in/on/with land: country/planet Chaldea
YHWH has opened His treasury, And He brings out the weapons of His indignation, For a work [is] to Lord YHWH of Hosts, In the land of the Chaldeans.
26 to come (in): come to/for her from end to open granary her to build her like heap and to devote/destroy her not to be to/for her remnant
Come in to her from the extremity, Open her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.
27 to slay all bullock her to go down to/for slaughter woe! upon them for to come (in): come day their time punishment their
Slay all her cows, they go down to slaughter, Woe [is] on them, for their day has come, The time of their inspection.
28 voice to flee and survivor from land: country/planet Babylon to/for to tell in/on/with Zion [obj] vengeance LORD God our vengeance temple his
A voice of fugitives and escaped ones [Is] from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of our God YHWH, The vengeance of His temple.
29 to hear: proclaim to(wards) Babylon archer all to tread bow to camp upon her around not (to be to/for her *Q(K)*) survivor to complete to/for her like/as work her like/as all which to make: do to make: do to/for her for to(wards) LORD to boil to(wards) holy Israel
Summon archers to Babylon, all treading the bow, Encamp against her all around, Let [her] have no escape; Repay to her according to her work, According to all that she did—do to her, For she has been proud against YHWH, Against the Holy One of Israel.
30 to/for so to fall: kill youth her in/on/with street/plaza her and all human battle her to silence: silent in/on/with day [the] he/she/it utterance LORD
Therefore her young men fall in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day,” A declaration of YHWH.
31 look! I to(wards) you arrogance utterance Lord YHWH/God Hosts for to come (in): come day your time to reckon: punish you
“Behold, I [am] against you, O pride,” A declaration of Lord YHWH of Hosts, “For your day has come, the time of your inspection.
32 and to stumble arrogance and to fall: fall and nothing to/for him to arise: establish and to kindle fire in/on/with city his and to eat all around him
And pride has stumbled, And he has fallen, and has none raising up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it has devoured all around him.
33 thus to say LORD Hosts to oppress son: descendant/people Israel and son: descendant/people Judah together and all to take captive them to strengthen: hold in/on/with them to refuse to send: let go them
Thus said YHWH of Hosts: The sons of Israel are oppressed, And the sons of Judah together, And all their captors have kept hold on them, They have refused to send them away.
34 to redeem: redeem their strong LORD Hosts name his to contend to contend [obj] strife their because to rest [obj] [the] land: country/planet and to tremble to/for to dwell Babylon
Their Redeemer [is] strong, YHWH of Hosts [is] His Name, He thoroughly pleads their cause, So as to cause the land to rest, And He has given trouble to the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 sword upon Chaldea utterance LORD and to(wards) to dwell Babylon and to(wards) ruler her and to(wards) wise her
A sword [is] for the Chaldeans,” A declaration of YHWH, “And it [is] on the inhabitants of Babylon, And on her heads, and on her wise men;
36 sword to(wards) [the] bluster and be foolish sword to(wards) mighty man her and to to be dismayed
A sword [is] on the princes, And they have become foolish; A sword [is] on her mighty ones, And they have been broken down;
37 sword to(wards) horse his and to(wards) chariot his and to(wards) all [the] racial-mix which in/on/with midst her and to be to/for woman sword to(wards) treasure her and to plunder
A sword [is] on his horses and on his chariot, And on all the rabble who [are] in her midst, And they have become women; A sword [is] on her treasuries, And they have been spoiled;
38 drought to(wards) water her and to wither for land: country/planet idol he/she/it and in/on/with terror to be foolish
A sword [is] on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it [is] a land of carved images, And they boast themselves in idols.
39 to/for so to dwell wild beast with wild beast and to dwell in/on/with her daughter ostrich and not to dwell still to/for perpetuity and not to dwell till generation and generation
Therefore desert-dwellers dwell with howlers, Indeed, daughters of the ostrich have dwelt in her, And it is not inhabited anymore forever, Nor dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 like/as overthrow God [obj] Sodom and [obj] Gomorrah and [obj] neighboring her utterance LORD not to dwell there man: anyone and not to sojourn in/on/with her son: child man
As the overthrow by God of Sodom, And of Gomorrah, and of its neighbors,” A declaration of YHWH, “None dwell there, Nor does a son of man sojourn in her.
41 behold people to come (in): come from north and nation great: large and king many to rouse from flank land: country/planet
Behold, a people has come from the north, Even a great nation, And many kings are stirred up from the sides of the earth.
42 bow and javelin to strengthen: hold cruel they(masc.) and not to have compassion voice: sound their like/as sea to roar and upon horse to ride to arrange like/as man to/for battle upon you daughter Babylon
They seize bow and javelin, They [are] cruel, and they have no mercy, Their voice sounds as a sea, and they ride on horses, Set in array as a man for battle, Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 to hear: hear king Babylon [obj] report their and to slacken hand his distress to strengthen: hold him agony like/as to beget
The king of Babylon has heard their report, And his hands have been feeble, Distress has seized him; pain as a travailing woman.
44 behold like/as lion to ascend: rise from pride [the] Jordan to(wards) pasture strong for to disturb (to run: run them *Q(K)*) from upon her and who? to choose to(wards) her to reckon: overseer for who? like me and who? to appoint me and who? this to pasture which to stand: stand to/for face: before my
Behold, he comes up as a lion, Because of the rising of the Jordan, To the enduring habitation, But I cause to rest, I cause them to run from off her. And who is chosen? I lay a charge on her, For who [is] like Me? And who convenes Me? And who [is] this shepherd who stands before Me?
45 to/for so to hear: hear counsel LORD which to advise to(wards) Babylon and plot his which to devise: devise to(wards) land: country/planet Chaldea if: surely yes not to drag them little [the] flock if: surely yes not be desolate: appalled upon them pasture
Therefore, hear the counsel of YHWH, That He counseled concerning Babylon, And His plans that He has devised Concerning the land of the Chaldeans; Do little ones of the flock not drag them out, Does He not make the habitation desolate over them?
46 from voice: sound to capture Babylon to shake [the] land: country/planet and outcry in/on/with nation to hear: hear
From the sound of Babylon having been captured, The earth has been shaken, And a cry has been heard among nations!”
