Book of Jeremiah bible study chapters 46 through 52

 

            Here is the final part of the book of Jeremiah, the seven chapters from chapter 46 through chapter 52 which deals with  prophecies of mainly judgment on the various nations and people groups , about coming captivity of many, but also again how Israel and some others also will be restored from captivities they are to undergo. Some of the prophecies in this section are end times related and have yet to be fulfilled in full, but they will be, probably in the seven year tribulation or just before. This final study will finish up the bible study on the book of Jeremiah so I am now going to give you a link to the bible study of the previous nine chapters of Jeremiah, specifically chapters 37 through 45

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Jeremiah chapter 46 is the first of these prophecies concerning the nations and this one concerns Egypt warning them to prepare for war, and that they will be given over to Nebuchadnezzar but God will restore Jacob (Israel) though not without punishing them for their wrongdoing but according to the wrongdoing so they know their activity was unacceptable and the know the Lord

(Jeremiah 46:1)  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

 

(Jeremiah 46:2)  About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

 

(Jeremiah 46:3)  "Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

 

(Jeremiah 46:4)  Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!

 

(Jeremiah 46:5)  Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste; they look not back-- terror on every side! declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 46:6)  "The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.

 

(Jeremiah 46:7)  "Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

 

(Jeremiah 46:8)  Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, 'I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.'

 

(Jeremiah 46:9)  Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go out: men of Cush and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.

 

(Jeremiah 46:10)  That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

 

(Jeremiah 46:11)  Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.

 

(Jeremiah 46:12)  The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."

 

(Jeremiah 46:13)  The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:

 

(Jeremiah 46:14)  "Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; say, 'Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour around you.'

 

(Jeremiah 46:15)  Why are your mighty ones face down? They do not stand because the LORD thrust them down.

 

(Jeremiah 46:16)  He made many stumble, and they fell, and they said one to another, 'Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.'

 

(Jeremiah 46:17)  Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, 'Noisy one who lets the hour go by.'

 

(Jeremiah 46:18)  "As I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.

 

(Jeremiah 46:19)  Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.

 

(Jeremiah 46:20)  "A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a biting fly from the north has come upon her.

 

(Jeremiah 46:21)  Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fattened calves; yes, they have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

 

(Jeremiah 46:22)  "She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees.

 

(Jeremiah 46:23)  They shall cut down her forest, declares the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.

 

(Jeremiah 46:24)  The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north."

 

(Jeremiah 46:25)  The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said: "Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

 

(Jeremiah 46:26)  I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 46:27)  "But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.

 

(Jeremiah 46:28)  Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."

 

Jeremiah chapter 47 then Jeremiah prophesies doom against the Philistines by the sword of the Lord

(Jeremiah 47:1)  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.

 

(Jeremiah 47:2)  "Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.

 

(Jeremiah 47:3)  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,

 

(Jeremiah 47:4)  because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

 

(Jeremiah 47:5)  Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?

 

(Jeremiah 47:6)  Ah, sword of the LORD! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!

 

(Jeremiah 47:7)  How can it be quiet when the LORD has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it."

 

Jeremiah chapter 48 concerns all manner of severe judgment and destruction prophesied on Moab yet some restoration for Moab at the end of this extended period of judgment (for their wrongs)

(Jeremiah 48:1)  Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;

 

(Jeremiah48:2)  the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.

 

(Jeremiah 48:3)  "A voice! A cry from Horonaim, 'Desolation and great destruction!'

 

(Jeremiah 48:4)  Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry.

 

(Jeremiah 48:5)  For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction.

 

(Jeremiah 48:6)  Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert!

 

(Jeremiah 48:7)  For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.

 

(Jeremiah 48:8)  The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.

 

(Jeremiah 48:9)  "Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.

 

(Jeremiah 48:10)  "Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

 

(Jeremiah 48:11)  "Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his dregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

 

(Jeremiah 48:12)  "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces.

 

(Jeremiah 48:13)  Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

 

(Jeremiah 48:14)  "How do you say, 'We are heroes and mighty men of war'?

 

(Jeremiah 48:15)  The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

 

(Jeremiah 48:16)  The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly.

 

(Jeremiah 48:17)  Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, 'How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.'

 

(Jeremiah 48:18)  "Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

 

(Jeremiah 48:19)  Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, 'What has happened?'

 

(Jeremiah 48:20)  Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

 

(Jeremiah 48:21)  "Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,

 

(Jeremiah 48:22)  and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

 

(Jeremiah 48:23)  and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,

 

(Jeremiah 48:24)  and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

 

(Jeremiah 48:25)  The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 48:26)  "Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.

 

(Jeremiah 48:27)  Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

 

(Jeremiah 48:28)  "Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.

 

(Jeremiah 48:29)  We have heard of the pride of Moab-- he is very proud-- of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

 

(Jeremiah 48:30)  I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.

 

(Jeremiah 48:31)  Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn.

 

(Jeremiah 48:32)  More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached to the Sea of Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grapes the destroyer has fallen.

 

(Jeremiah 48:33)  Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.

 

(Jeremiah 48:34)  "From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.

 

(Jeremiah 48:35)  And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god.

 

(Jeremiah 48:36)  Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.

 

(Jeremiah 48:37)  "For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.

 

(Jeremiah 48:38)  On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 48:39)  How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him."

 

(Jeremiah 48:40)  For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;

 

(Jer emiah48:41)  the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains;

 

(Jeremiah 48:42)  Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 48:43)  Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 48:44)  He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 48:45)  "In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength, for fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.

 

(Jeremiah 48:46)  Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.

 

(Jeremiah 48:47)  Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab.

 

Jeremiah chapter 49 concerns itself with several peoples and their separate judgments including Ammon, and Edom and others on whom the Lord brings judgment for the wrongs that they did against the Lord (like idolatry)

(Jeremiah 49:1)  Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?

 

(Jeremiah 49:2)  Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 49:3)  "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials.

 

(Jeremiah 49:4)  Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, 'Who will come against me?'

 

(Jeremiah 49:5)  Behold, I will bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who are around you, and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives.

 

(Jeremiah 49:6)  "But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the LORD."

 

(Jeremiah 49:7)  Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

 

(Jeremiah 49:8)  Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.

 

(Jeremiah 49:9)  If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?

 

(Jeremiah 49:10)  But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

 

(Jeremiah 49:11)  Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me."

 

(Jeremiah 49:12)  For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.

 

(Jeremiah 49:13)  For I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes."

 

(Jeremiah 49:14)  I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!

 

(Jeremiah 49:15)  For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind.

 

(Jeremiah 49:16)  The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 49:17)  "Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

 

(Jeremiah 49:18)  As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.

 

(Jeremiah 49:19)  Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?

 

(Jeremiah 49:20)  Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

 

(Jeremiah 49:21)  At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.

 

(Jeremiah 49:22)  Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains."

 

(Jeremiah 49:23)  Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

 

(Jeremiah 49:24)  Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in labor.

 

(Jeremiah 49:25)  How is the famous city not forsaken, the city of my joy?

 

(Jeremiah 49:26)  Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, declares the LORD of hosts.

 

(Jeremiah 49:27)  And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad."

 

(Jeremiah 49:28)  Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down. Thus says the LORD: "Rise up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!

 

(Jeremiah 49:29)  Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be led away from them, and men shall cry to them: 'Terror on every side!'

 

(Jeremiah 49:30)  Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor! declares the LORD. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has made a plan against you and formed a purpose against you.

 

(Jeremiah 49:31)  "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.

 

(Jeremiah 49:32)  Their camels shall become plunder, their herds of livestock a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 49:33)  Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her."

 

(Jeremiah 49:34)  The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.

 

(Jeremiah 49:35)  Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might.

 

(Jeremiah 49:36)  And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.

 

(Jeremiah 49:37)  I will terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, my fierce anger, declares the LORD. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them,

 

(Jeremiah 49:38)  and I will set my throne in Elam and destroy their king and officials, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 49:39)  "But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the LORD."

 

Jeremiah chapter 50 concerns the judgments to be pronounced on Babylon including a nation coming from the north coming down to spoil and destroy it, filled to a large degree by the Medes and Persians but it also could be speaking and prophesying of the mystery Babylon of the end times- only God knows for sure if this prophecy applies to them as well.

(Jeremiah 50:1)  The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:

 

(Jeremiah 50:2)  "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'

 

(Jeremiah 50:3)  "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.

 

(Jeremiah 50:4)  "In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the LORD their God.

 

(Jeremiah 50:5)  They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.'

 

(Jeremiah 50:6)  "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.

 

(Jeremiah 50:7)  All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'

 

(Jeremiah 50:8)  "Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.

 

(Jeremiah 50:9)  For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.

 

(Jeremiah 50:10)  Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 50:11)  "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions,

 

(Jeremiah 50:12)  your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

 

(Jeremiah 50:13)  Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.

 

(Jeremiah 50:14)  Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 50:15)  Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.

 

(Jeremiah 50:16)  Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

 

(Jeremiah 50:17)  "Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.

 

(Jeremiah 50:18)  Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.

 

(Jeremiah 50:19)  I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

 

(Jeremiah 50:20)  In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.

 

(Jeremiah 50:21)  "Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.

 

(Jeremiah 50:22)  The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!

 

(Jeremiah 50:23)  How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

 

(Jeremiah 50:24)  I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 50:25)  The LORD has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

 

(Jeremiah 50:26)  Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her.

 

(Jeremiah 50:27)  Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

 

(Jeremiah 50:28)  "A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.

 

(Jeremiah 50:29)  "Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

 

(Jeremiah 50:30)  Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 50:31)  "Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

 

(Jeremiah 50:32)  The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is around him.

 

(Jeremiah 50:33)  "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.

 

(Jeremiah 50:34)  Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

 

(Jeremiah 50:35)  "A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials and her wise men!

 

(Jeremiah 50:36)  A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

 

(Jeremiah 50:37)  A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!

 

(Jeremiah 50:38)  A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.

 

(Jeremiah 50:39)  "Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.

 

(Jeremiah 50:40)  As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

 

(Jeremiah 50:41)  "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.

 

(Jeremiah 50:42)  They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride on horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!

 

(Jeremiah 50:43)  "The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in labor.

 

(Jeremiah 50:44)  "Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?

 

(Jeremiah 50:45)  Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

 

(Jeremiah 50:46)  At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."

 

Chapter 51 also concerns judgments on Babylon, and the Babylonian empire but also this prophecy could apply to the daughter Babylon in the book of Revelation whose judgment comes during the seven year tribulation period. Only God knows if Jeremiah 50 and 51 speak of mystery Babylon as well.

(Jeremiah 51:1)  Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,

 

(Jeremiah 51:2)  and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.

 

(Jeremiah 51:3)  Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army.

 

(Jeremiah 51:4)  They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.

 

(Jeremiah 51:5)  For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

 

(Jeremiah 51:6)  "Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.

 

(Jeremiah 51:7)  Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.

 

(Jeremiah 51:8)  Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

 

(Jeremiah 51:9)  We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.

 

(Jeremiah 51:10)  The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

 

(Jeremiah 51:11)  "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.

 

(Jeremiah 51:12)  "Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

 

(Jeremiah 51:13)  O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

 

(Jeremiah 51:14)  The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.

 

(Jeremiah 51:15)  "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

 

(Jeremiah 51:16)  When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

 

(Jeremiah 51:17)  Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

 

(Jeremiah 51:18)  They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

 

(Jeremiah 51:19)  Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.

 

(Jeremiah 51:20)  "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;

 

(Jeremiah 51:21)  with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;

 

(Jeremiah 51:22)  with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;

 

(Jeremiah 51:23)  with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.

 

(Jeremiah 51:24)  "I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 51:25)  "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.

 

(Jeremiah 51:26)  No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 51:27)  "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.

 

(Jeremiah 51:28)  Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.

 

(Jeremiah 51:29)  The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

 

(Jeremiah 51:30)  The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.

 

(Jeremiah 51:31)  One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;

 

(Jeremiah 51:32)  the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.

 

(Jeremiah 51:33)  For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."

 

(Jeremiah 51:34)  "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.

 

(Jeremiah 51:35)  The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say.

 

(Jeremiah 51:36)  Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,

 

(Jeremiah 51:37)  and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

 

(Jeremiah 51:38)  "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

 

(Jeremiah 51:39)  While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 51:40)  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.

 

(Jeremiah 51:41)  "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

 

(Jeremiah 51:42)  The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.

 

(Jeremiah 51:43)  Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.

 

(Jeremiah 51:44)  And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.

 

(Jeremiah 51:45)  "Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!

 

(Jeremiah 51:46)  Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.

 

(Jeremiah 51:47)  "Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

 

(Jeremiah 51:48)  Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 51:49)  Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.

 

(Jeremiah 51:50)  "You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:

 

(Jeremiah 51:51)  'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.'

 

(Jeremiah 51:52)  "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

 

(Jeremiah 51:53)  Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the LORD.

 

(Jeremiah 51:54)  "A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

 

(Jeremiah 51:55)  For the LORD is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised,

 

(Jeremiah 51:56)  for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of recompense; he will surely repay.

 

(Jeremiah 51:57)  I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

 

(Jeremiah 51:58)  "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."

 

(Jeremiah 51:59)  The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.

 

(Jeremiah 51:60)  Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

 

(Jeremiah 51:61)  And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,

 

(Jeremiah 51:62)  and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'

 

(Jeremiah 51:63)  When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,

 

(Jeremiah 51:64)  and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

 

Jeremiah chapter 52 concerns and revisits  the kingship of Zedekiah of Judah, how evil he was and then the capture and fall of Jerusalem at the hands of the Chaldeans and the final time several various groups of people from Judah and Jerusalem are taken captive to Babylon then at the end king of Judah Jehoiachin is released from prison and treated well, even eating at the king of Babylon’s table

(Jeremiah 52:1)  Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

 

(Jeremiah 52:2)  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

 

(Jeremiah 52:3)  For because of the anger of the LORD things came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

 

(Jeremiah 52:4)  And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.

 

(Jeremiah 52:5)  So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

 

(Jeremiah 52:6)  On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

 

(Jeremiah 52:7)  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

 

(Jeremiah 52:8)  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.

 

(Jeremiah 52:9)  Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

 

(Jeremiah 52:10)  The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.

 

(Jeremiah 52:11)  He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

 

(Jeremiah 52:12)  In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month--that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon--Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

 

(Jeremiah 52:13)  And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

 

(Jeremiah 52:14)  And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

 

(Jeremiah 52:15)  And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.

 

(Jeremiah 52:16)  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

 

(Jeremiah 52:17)  And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.

 

(Jeremiah 52:18)  And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;

 

(Jeremiah 52:19)  also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.

 

(Jeremiah 52:20)  As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.

 

(Jeremiah 52:21)  As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.

 

(Jeremiah 52:22)  On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates.

 

(Jeremiah 52:23)  There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.

 

(Jeremiah 52:24)  And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

 

(Jeremiah 52:25)  and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

 

(Jeremiah 52:26)  And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

 

(Jeremiah 52:27)  And the king of Babylon struck them down, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

 

(Jeremiah 52:28)  This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;

 

(Jeremiah 52:29)  in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons;

 

(Jeremiah 52:30)  in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.

 

(Jeremiah 52:31)  And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

 

(Jeremiah 52:32)  And he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

 

(Jeremiah 52:33)  So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table,

 

(Jeremiah 52:34)  and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king according to his daily need, until the day of his death, as long as he lived.

 

Jeremiah had the difficult job of prophesying in a very difficult and very evil time in Israel’s people when the people were becoming more backslidden and reprobate, and I see much the same things happening today as then, but in different ways. God wants all today to repent of wickedness as He did then, and will judge now all evil as He did then. The one thing we have now that Jeremiah’s people didn’t is the fact that Jesus did come and die for our sins, giving us a way to find forgiveness, eternal life, and most of all relationship with a God who truly loves us and is grieved by all evil, no matter where it comes from or how. His love is so great that He did send His only Son, Jesus to die for our sins so relationship can be restored, and there is nothing like a relationship with God, nothing can compare to it at all. I am now including a prayer which will invite Jesus into your heart and begin this wonderful relationship or even you can return to it through this prayer repenting of what may have separated you from Jesus. Please do pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours