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39 Therefore[a] desert creatures will live there[b] with jackals,
    and daughters of ostriches[c] will inhabit her.
And she will not be inhabited again forever,[d]
    and she will not be dwelt in for all generations.[e]
40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
    and their neighbors,” declares[f] Yahweh,
“no one will live there,
    and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her.
41 Look, a people is about to come
    from the north,
and a great nation and many kings are woken up
    from the remotest part of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:39 Literally “To thus”
  2. Jeremiah 50:39 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Jeremiah 50:39 Hebrew “ostrich”
  4. Jeremiah 50:39 Literally “to eternity”
  5. Jeremiah 50:39 Literally “until generation and generation”
  6. Jeremiah 50:40 Literally “a declaration of”