Jeremiah 50:28

²⁶ 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.

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.

²⁹ Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

³⁰ Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares 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: 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.
KJV: The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
WEB: Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
ASV: The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.
DARBY: The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple.
BLB: The voice of those fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of YHWH our God, the vengeance for His temple.

ÅB: Hør! De er flyktet og undkommet fra Babels land for å kunngjøre i Sion Herrens, vår Guds hevn, hevnen for hans tempel!
OTB: Hør flyktningene og de som har unnsluppet fra Babylon forkynne i Sion hvordan Herren vår Gud har tatt hevn, hevn for sitt tempel.
B1930: Hør! De er flyktet og undkommet fra Babels land for å kunngjøre i Sion Herrens, vår Guds hevn, hevnen for hans tempel!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
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Jeremiah 50:15
Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
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Isaiah 48:20
Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
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Lamentations 2:6–7
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
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Daniel 5:23
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
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Psalms 149:6–9
May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands,
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Jeremiah 51:10–11
“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
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Daniel 5:3–5
Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
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