10 [a](A)Chaldea will become plunder;
All who plunder her will have enough,” declares the Lord.

11 “Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
O you who (B)pillage My heritage,
Because you skip about [b]like a threshing (C)heifer
And neigh like [c]stallions,
12 Your (D)mother [d]will be greatly ashamed,
She who gave you birth [e]will be humiliated.
Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
A (E)wilderness, a parched land and a desert.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:10 Or the Chaldeans
  2. Jeremiah 50:11 Another reading is in the grass
  3. Jeremiah 50:11 Lit mighty ones
  4. Jeremiah 50:12 Or has become
  5. Jeremiah 50:12 Or has become