Jeremiah 50:26

Judgment

²⁴ I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

²⁵ The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.

²⁷ Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.

²⁸ Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

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.

Compare

BSB: Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.
KJV: Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
WEB: Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.
ASV: Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
DARBY: Come ye against her from every quarter, open her storehouses; pile her up like sheaves, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
BLB: Come against her from the extremity! Open her granaries, [and] pile her up like heaps, and devote her to destruction! Do not let there be unto her a remnant!

ÅB: Kom imot det fra alle kanter! Åpne dets forrådshus, dyng opp som korndynger det som finnes der, og slå det med bann! La det ikke ha noe igjen!
OTB: Kom mot henne fra den fjerneste grense. Åpne hennes lager; legg henne i hauger som korn og ødelegg henne fullstendig, uten å etterlate noen rest.
B1930: Kom imot det fra alle kanter! Åpne dets forrådshus, dyng op som korndynger det som finnes der, og slå det med bann! La det ikke ha noget igjen!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 14:23
“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
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Jeremiah 50:10
Chaldea will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.
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Isaiah 45:3
I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
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Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
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Jeremiah 50:13
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.
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Revelation 19:15
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
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Revelation 14:19
So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
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Isaiah 63:3–4
“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
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