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General Information:
Jeremiah often wrote prophecy in the form of poetry. Hebrew poetry uses different kinds of parallelism. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-poetry and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
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This draws attention to what is said next. AT: "Listen carefully" or "Pay attention"
a wind of destruction
Possible meanings are 1) "a wind that destroys" or 2) "the spirit of a destroyer." This would mean that Yahweh would cause or inspire the enemy army to go and attack Babylon.
Leb Kamai
This is code name for Chaldea, a region of Babylonia. It is not clear why Jeremiah uses this name here, so you may want to translate as "Chaldea" or "Babylonia." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)
scatter her and devastate her land ... they will come against her
The word "her," a metaphor that refers to Babylon as if it were a woman, is also a metonym for the people who live in Babylon. AT: "separate the people who live there from each other, send them in different directions, and make their land empty ... foreigners will attack the people of Babylon" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
on the day of disaster
The phrase "day of" is a Hebrew idiom for "when." AT: "when I destroy Babylon" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)