Jeremiah 50:1-46
A message about Babylon.
A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both men and animals will flee away.
My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. Whoever found them devoured them, their enemies said,'We are not guilty, for they sinned against the Lord, their true pasture, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.'
Flee out of Babylon; leave the land of the Babylonians, and be like the goats that lead the flock.
She will be the least of the nations- wildness, a dry land, a desert.
In those days, at that time, 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.
I set a trap for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the Lord.
Israel and Judah's 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.
For it is a land of idols, idols that will go mad with terror.
It will never again be inhabited or lived in fro generation to generation. No one will live there; no man will dwell in it.
Why?
The ruins of Babylon, capital of empire in Jeremiah;s day. King Nebuchadnezzar's great pride and joy, lie in the desert 90km/55 miles south of modern Baghdad.
Jeremiah the delegation that went to Babylon in the 4 your of Zedekiah's reign, six years before the fall of Jerusalem It was given a public reading, then sunk in the Euphrates, as Babylon itself would sink before its conqueror.
The Lord remember His promise to Israel, He forgive the remnant He spared. His covenant endure forever.
The biggest nation in the world, at those day be captured and attacked to nothing. No one dwell in it's land. Never again be inhabited until now.
All of these disaster because of their pride and their sin against the Lord, their idols will go mad with terror.
How?
My Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name. His covenant endure forever. I will rest in my land because the Lord remember me.
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