Holy Bible
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 50
A Message About Babylon
1This is the word the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians[111]:
2“Announce and proclaim among the nations, lift up a banner and proclaim it; keep nothing back, but say,
‘Babylon will be captured;
Bel will be put to shame,
Marduk filled with terror.
Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.’
3A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land.
No one will live in it; both people and animals will flee away.
4“In those days, at that time,” declares the LORD,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together will go in tears to seek the LORD their God.
5They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it.
They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
6“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place.
7Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the LORD, their verdant pasture, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.’
8“Flee out of Babylon; leave the land of the Babylonians, and be like the goats that lead the flock.
9For I will stir up and bring against Babylon an alliance of great nations from the land of the north.
They will take up their positions against her, and from the north she will be captured.
Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
10So Babylonia[112] will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.
11“Because you rejoice and are glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions,
12your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who gave you birth will be disgraced.
She will be the least of the nations—a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.
13Because of the LORD’s anger she will not be inhabited but will be completely desolate.
All who pass Babylon will be appalled; they will scoff because of all her wounds.
14“Take up your positions around Babylon, all you who draw the bow.
Shoot at her! Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.
15Shout against her on every side!
She surrenders, her towers fall, her walls are torn down.
Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done to others.
16Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the reaper with his sickle at harvest.
Because of the sword of the oppressor let everyone return to their own people, let everyone flee to their own land.
17“Israel is a scattered flock that lions have chased away.
The first to devour them was the king of Assyria; the last to crush their bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
18Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
“I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.
19But I will bring Israel back to their own pasture, and they will graze on Carmel and Bashan; their appetite will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
20In those days, at that time,” declares the LORD,
“search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for the sins of Judah, but none will be found, for I will forgive the remnant I spare.
21“Attack the land of Merathaim and those who live in Pekod.
Pursue, kill and completely destroy[113] them,” declares the LORD.
“Do everything I have commanded you.
22The noise of battle is in the land, the noise of great destruction!
23How broken and shattered is the hammer of the whole earth!
How desolate is Babylon among the nations!
24I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the LORD.
25The LORD has opened his arsenal and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Sovereign LORD Almighty has work to do in the land of the Babylonians.
26Come against her from afar.
Break open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain.
Completely destroy her and leave her no remnant.
27Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter!
Woe to them! For their day has come, the time for them to be punished.
28Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the LORD our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
29“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow.
Encamp all around her; let no one escape.
Repay her for her deeds; do to her as she has done.
For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
30Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets; all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
31“See, I am against you, you arrogant one,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty,
“for your day has come, the time for you to be punished.
32The arrogant one will stumble and fall and no one will help her up;
I will kindle a fire in her towns that will consume all who are around her.”
33This is what the LORD Almighty says:
“The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah as well.
All their captors hold them fast, refusing to let them go.
34Yet their Redeemer is strong; the LORD Almighty is his name.
He will vigorously defend their cause so that he may bring rest to their land, but unrest to those who live in Babylon.
35“A sword against the Babylonians!” declares the LORD—
“against those who live in Babylon and against her officials and wise men!
36A sword against her false prophets!
They will become fools.
A sword against her warriors!
They will be filled with terror.
37A sword against her horses and chariots and all the foreigners in her ranks!
They will become weaklings.
A sword against her treasures!
They will be plundered.
38A drought on[114] her waters!
They will dry up.
For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror.
39“So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
40As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighboring towns,” declares the LORD,
“so no one will live there; no people will dwell in it.
41“Look! An army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are being stirred up from the ends of the earth.
42They are armed with bows and spears; they are cruel and without mercy.
They sound like the roaring sea as they ride on their horses; they come like men in battle formation to attack you, Daughter Babylon.
43The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and his hands hang limp.
Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.
44Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets to a rich pastureland,
I will chase Babylon from its land in an instant.
Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this?
Who is like me and who can challenge me?
And what shepherd can stand against me?”
45Therefore, hear what the LORD has planned against Babylon, what he has purposed against the land of the Babylonians:
The young of the flock will be dragged away; their pasture will be appalled at their fate.
46At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will tremble; its cry will resound among the nations.
Jeremiah 51
1This is what the LORD says:
“See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai.[115]
2I will send foreigners to Babylon to winnow her and to devastate her land; they will oppose her on every side in the day of her disaster.
3Let not the archer string his bow, nor let him put on his armor.
Do not spare her young men; completely destroy[116] her army.
4They will fall down slain in Babylon,[117] fatally wounded in her streets.
5For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD Almighty, though their land[118] is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.
6“Flee from Babylon!
Run for your lives!
Do not be destroyed because of her sins.
It is time for the LORD’s vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.
7Babylon was a gold cup in the LORD’s hand; she made the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine; therefore they have now gone mad.
8Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken.
Wail over her!
Get balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
9“ ‘We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; let us leave her and each go to our own land, for her judgment reaches to the skies, it rises as high as the heavens.’
10“ ‘The LORD has vindicated us;
come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has done.’
11“Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields!
The LORD has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to destroy Babylon.
The LORD will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
12Lift up a banner against the walls of Babylon!
Reinforce the guard, station the watchmen, prepare an ambush!
The LORD will carry out his purpose, his decree against the people of Babylon.
13You who live by many waters and are rich in treasures, your end has come, the time for you to be destroyed.
14The LORD Almighty has sworn by himself:
I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.
15“He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
16When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
17“Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.
The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.
18They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.
19He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including the people of his inheritance—the LORD Almighty is his name.
20“You are my war club, my weapon for battle—with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms,
21with you I shatter horse and rider, with you I shatter chariot and driver,
22with you I shatter man and woman, with you I shatter old man and youth, with you I shatter young man and young woman,
23with you I shatter shepherd and flock, with you I shatter farmer and oxen, with you I shatter governors and officials.
24“Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia[119] for all the wrong they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
25“I am against you, you destroying mountain, you who destroy the whole earth,” declares the LORD.
“I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain.
26No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a foundation, for you will be desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
27“Lift up a banner in the land!
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations for battle against her; summon against her these kingdoms:
Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a commander against her; send up horses like a swarm of locusts.
28Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the countries they rule.
29The land trembles and writhes, for the LORD’s purposes against Babylon stand—to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there.
30Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds.
Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings.
Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.
31One courier follows another and messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured,
32the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.”
33This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
“Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; the time to harvest her will soon come.”
34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.
35May the violence done to our flesh[120] be on Babylon,” say the inhabitants of Zion.
“May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,” says Jerusalem.
36Therefore this is what the LORD says:
“See, I will defend your cause and avenge you;
I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
37Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.
38Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.
39But while they are aroused,
I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter—then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the LORD.
40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
41“How Sheshak[121] will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized!
How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!
42The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.
43Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.
44I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
And the wall of Babylon will fall.
45“Come out of her, my people!
Run for your lives!
Run from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46Do not lose heart or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land; one rumor comes this year, another the next, rumors of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.
47For the time will surely come when I will punish the idols of Babylon; her whole land will be disgraced and her slain will all lie fallen within her.
48Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for out of the north destroyers will attack her,” declares the LORD.
49“Babylon must fall because of Israel’s slain, just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
50You who have escaped the sword, leave and do not linger!
Remember the LORD in a distant land, and call to mind Jerusalem.”
51“We are disgraced, for we have been insulted and shame covers our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
52“But days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
53Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold,
I will send destroyers against her,” declares the LORD.
54“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.[122]
55The LORD will destroy Babylon; he will silence her noisy din.
Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound.
56A destroyer will come against Babylon; her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken.
For the LORD is a God of retribution; he will repay in full.
57I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors, officers and warriors as well; they will sleep forever and not awake,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty.
58This is what the LORD Almighty says:
“Babylon’s thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”
59This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff officer Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year of his reign. 60Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon. 61He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud. 62Then say, ‘LORD, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’ 63When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates. 64Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people will fall.’ ”
The words of Jeremiah end here.
Jeremiah 52
The Fall of Jerusalem
1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. 2He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done. 3It was because of the LORD’s anger that all this happened to Jerusalem and Judah, and in the end he thrust them from his presence.
Now Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. They encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. 5The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. 7Then the city wall was broken through, and the whole army fled. They left the city at night through the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Babylonians[123] were surrounding the city. They fled toward the Arabah,[124] 8but the Babylonian[125] army pursued King Zedekiah and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, 9and he was captured.
He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced sentence on him. 10There at Riblah the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the officials of Judah. 11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.
12On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 13He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. 14The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the rest of the craftsmen[126] and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon. 16But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
17The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. 18They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. 19The commander of the imperial guard took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, dishes and bowls used for drink offerings—all that were made of pure gold or silver.
20The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the LORD, was more than could be weighed. 21Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference[127]; each was four fingers thick, and hollow. 22The bronze capital on top of one pillar was five cubits[128] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar. 23There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the surrounding network was a hundred.
24The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers. 25Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city. 26Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.
So Judah went into captivity, away from her land. 28This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:
in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,
832 people from Jerusalem;
30in his twenty-third year,
745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.
There were 4,600 people in all.
Jehoiachin Released
31In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison. 32He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 33So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table. 34Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.
Jeremiah Attached Contents
Jeremiah 1
[1]1:5 Or chose
[2]1:12 The Hebrew for watching sounds like the Hebrew for almond tree.
Jeremiah 2
[3]2:10 In the Syro-Arabian desert
[4]2:18 Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile
Jeremiah 6
[5]6:10 Hebrew uncircumcised
Jeremiah 7
[6]7:9 Or and swear by false gods
Jeremiah 8
[7]8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
[8]8:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Jeremiah 9
[9]In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2–26 is numbered 9:1–25.
[10]9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth
[11]9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob
[12]9:6 That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)
[13]9:26 Or wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads
Jeremiah 10
[14]10:11 The text of this verse is in Aramaic.
Jeremiah 11
[15]11:15 Or Could consecrated meat avert your punishment? / Then you would rejoice
Jeremiah 12
[16]12:5 Or you feel secure only
[17]12:5 Or the flooding of
Jeremiah 13
[18]13:4 Or possibly to the Euphrates; similarly in verses 5–7
[19]13:23 Hebrew Cushite (probably a person from the upper Nile region)
Jeremiah 14
[20]14:14 Or visions, worthless divinations
Jeremiah 15
[21]15:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts I will cause your enemies to bring you / into
Jeremiah 17
[22]17:2 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
[23]17:2, 3 Or hills / 3and the mountains of the land. / Your
[24]17:19 Or Army
Jeremiah 18
[25]18:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
Jeremiah 19
[26]19:7 The Hebrew for ruin sounds like the Hebrew for jar (see verses 1 and 10).
Jeremiah 20
[27]20:7 Or persuaded
[28]20:7 Or persuaded
Jeremiah 21
[29]21:2 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, of which Nebuchadnezzar is a variant; here and often in Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Jeremiah 22
[31]22:11 Also called Jehoahaz
[32]22:23 That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)
[33]22:24 Hebrew Koniah, a variant of Jehoiachin; also in verse 28
[34]22:25 Or Chaldeans
Jeremiah 23
[35]23:5 Or up from David’s line
[36]23:10 Or because of these things
Jeremiah 24
[37]24:1 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin
[38]24:5 Or Chaldeans
[39]24:9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.
Jeremiah 25
[40]25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them.
[41]25:12 Or Chaldeans
[42]25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed
[43]25:23 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads
[44]25:26 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.
[45]25:34 Septuagint; Hebrew fall and be shattered like fine pottery
[46]25:38 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 46:16 and 50:16); most Hebrew manuscripts anger
Jeremiah 26
[47]26:6 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.
[48]26:18 Micah 3:12
Jeremiah 27
[49]27:1 A few Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac (see also 27:3, 12 and 28:1); most Hebrew manuscripts Jehoiakim (Most Septuagint manuscripts do not have this verse.)
[50]27:20 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin
Jeremiah 28
[51]28:4 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin
Jeremiah 29
[52]29:2 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin
[53]29:14 Or will restore your fortunes
[54]29:18 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see verse 22); or, others will see that they are cursed.
Jeremiah 30
[55]30:3 Or will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah
Jeremiah 31
[56]31:3 Or LORD has appeared to us from afar
[57]31:22 Or will protect
[58]31:23 Or I restore their fortunes
[59]31:32 Hebrew; Septuagint and Syriac / and I turned away from
[60]31:32 Or was their master
Jeremiah 32
[61]32:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 5, 24, 25, 28, 29 and 43
[62]32:9 That is, about 7 ounces or about 200 grams
[63]32:44 Or will bring them back from captivity
Jeremiah 33
[64]33:5 Or Chaldeans
[65]33:7 Or will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel
[66]33:16 Or he
[67]33:24 Or families
[68]33:26 Or will bring them back from captivity
Jeremiah 34
[69]34:14 Deut. 15:12
Jeremiah 35
[70]35:6 Hebrew Jonadab, a variant of Jehonadab; here and often in this chapter
[71]35:11 Or Chaldean
Jeremiah 37
[72]37:1 Hebrew Koniah, a variant of Jehoiachin
Jeremiah 38
[75]38:1 Hebrew Jukal, a variant of Jehukal
[76]38:2 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 18, 19 and 23
[77]38:7 Probably from the upper Nile region
[78]38:7 Or a eunuch
[79]38:23 Or and you will cause this city to
Jeremiah 39
[80]39:4 Or the Jordan Valley
[81]39:5 Or Chaldean
[82]39:8 Or Chaldeans
Jeremiah 40
[83]40:5 Or Jeremiah answered
[84]40:8 Hebrew Jezaniah, a variant of Jaazaniah
Jeremiah 41
[86]41:3 Or Chaldean
[87]41:18 Or Chaldeans
Jeremiah 42
[88]42:1 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also 43:2) Azariah
[89]42:18 That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.
[90]42:18 That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.
Jeremiah 43
[91]43:3 Or Chaldeans
[92]43:13 Or in Heliopolis
Jeremiah 44
[93]44:8 That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed; also in verse 12; similarly in verse 22.
Jeremiah 46
[94]46:9 That is, the upper Nile region
Jeremiah 47
[95]47:4 That is, Crete
Jeremiah 48
[96]48:1 Or captured; / Misgab
[97]48:2 The Hebrew for Heshbon sounds like the Hebrew for plot.
[98]48:2 The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for be silenced.
[99]48:4 Hebrew; Septuagint / proclaim it to Zoar
[100]48:6 Or like Aroer
[101]48:9 Or Give wings to Moab, / for she will fly away
[102]48:25 Horn here symbolizes strength.
[103]48:32 Probably the Dead Sea
[104]48:32 Two Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts as far as the Sea of
[105]48:41 Or The cities
Jeremiah 49
[106]49:1 Or their king; also in verse 3
[107]49:13 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.
[108]49:21 Or the Sea of Reeds
[109]49:23 Hebrew on or by
[110]49:32 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads
Jeremiah 50
[111]50:1 Or Chaldeans; also in verses 8, 25, 35 and 45
[112]50:10 Or Chaldea
[113]50:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.
[114]50:38 Or A sword against
Jeremiah 51
[115]51:1 Leb Kamai is a cryptogram for Chaldea, that is, Babylonia.
[116]51:3 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them.
[117]51:4 Or Chaldea
[118]51:5 Or Almighty, / and the land of the Babylonians
[119]51:24 Or Chaldea; also in verse 35
[120]51:35 Or done to us and to our children
[121]51:41 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.
[122]51:54 Or Chaldeans
Jeremiah 52
[123]52:7 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 17
[124]52:7 Or the Jordan Valley
[125]52:8 Or Chaldean; also in verse 14
[126]52:15 Or the populace
[127]52:21 That is, about 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference or about 8.1 meters high and 5.4 meters in circumference
[128]52:22 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters