Jeremiah 50:12

¹⁰ Chaldea will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.

¹¹ “Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

¹³ Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.

¹⁴ Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
KJV: Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
WEB: your mother will be utterly disappointed. She who bore you will be confounded. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
ASV: your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
DARBY: Your mother hath been sorely put to shame; she that bore you hath been covered with reproach: behold, [she is become] hindmost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
BLB: your⁺ mother will be greatly ashamed, she who bore you⁺ will be disgraced. Behold, the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

ÅB: Deres mor blir storlig til skamme, hun som fødte dere, blues; se, hun blir det siste blant folkene, en ørken, et tørt land og en øde mark.
OTB: vil deres mor bli sterkt skamfull; hun som fødte dere vil bli ydmyket. Hun vil bli den minste av nasjonene, en ødemark, et uttørket land, en ørken.
B1930: Eders mor blir storlig til skamme, hun som fødte eder, blues; se, hun blir det siste blandt folkene, en ørken, et tørt land og en øde mark.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
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Jeremiah 50:35–40
A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.
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Revelation 17:5
And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
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Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
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Jeremiah 51:25–26
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
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Isaiah 14:22
“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 25:12
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
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