Jeremiah 50:30
“Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.”
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.
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
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“Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.”
“Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.”
“Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.”
“That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.”
“A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.”