10 The Chaldeans will become plunder;
all Babylon’s plunderers will be fully satisfied.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
11 Because you rejoice,
because you sing in triumph—
you who plundered My inheritance—
because you frolic like a young cow treading grain
and neigh like stallions,(A)
12 your mother will be utterly humiliated;
she who bore you will be put to shame.
Look! She will lag behind all[a] the nations—
a dry land, a wilderness,(B) an Arabah.

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  1. Jeremiah 50:12 Lit Look! The last of

10 So Babylonia[a] will be plundered;(A)
    all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.

11 “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,(B)
because you frolic like a heifer(C) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,
12 your mother will be greatly ashamed;
    she who gave you birth will be disgraced.(D)
She will be the least of the nations—
    a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:10 Or Chaldea