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Jeremiah 50 Translation Questions
Q? What will happen to Babylon?
A. Babylon is taken. Bel and the idols are put to shame. [50:2]
Q? Who will arise against Babylon?
A. A nation from the north. [50:3]
Q? What will the people of Israel do when Babylon is attacked?
A. The people will come together with weeping and seek Yahweh. They will set off toward Zion to renew their eternal covenant with Yahweh. [50:4-5]
Q? Why does Yahweh describe his people as a lost flock?
A. He describes them as a lost flock because their shepherds led them astray and they forgot their homeland. [50:6]
Q? What did their adversaries say about why they were able to devour Yahweh's people?
A. The adversaries said it was because Yahweh's people sinned against Yahweh. [50:7]
Q? Why are the Israelites to leave Babylon before Babylon is captured?
A. They are to leave because great nations from the north are coming to capture Babylon. [50:8-10]
Q? What will happen to Babylon because they took Yahweh's inheritance as plunder?
A. Babylon will be the least of nations, an uninhabited wilderness. [50:11-13]
Q? Because Babylon has sinned against Yahweh what will happen to her?
A. Everyone will shoot at Babylon, Babylon will surrender her power, her towers will fall, her walls will be torn down, and others will do to her just as she had done to other nations. [50:14-15]
Q? What should people who came from other countries do when Babylon is attacked?
A. They should all run away back to their own countries. [50:16]
Q? What does Yahweh say he will do to the nations of Assyria and Babylon?
A. He says he will punish the king of Babylon and his people the same way he punished the king of Assyria. [50:17-18]
Q? What will Yahweh do for this remnant of people that he spares?
A. Yahweh will restore Israel to his homeland, and he will forgive the people's sins. [50:19-20]
Q? What does Yahweh encourage the enemies of Babylon to do?
A. Yahweh wants them to sound the battle cry and bring enormous destruction on Babylon. [50:21-22]
Q? Why will the Babylonian army be seized?
A. It will be seized because it challenged Yahweh. [50:23-24]
Q? What is the work that Yahweh has to do?
A. Yahweh opens his armory, brings out the weapons, and encourages the enemies to attack Babylon, open her granaries, and bring her to destruction. They are to leave no remnant of her. [50:25-26]
Q? What will the Israelite survivors of Babylon talk about?
A. They will talk about how Yahweh punished Babylon by having the warriors slaughtered for what was done to his temple in Zion. [50:27-28]
Q? What will happen to because she defied Yahweh?
A. No one will escape the destruction the enemies of Babylon will bring on her. The enemy is to destroy all of her fighting men because of what she has done to Yahweh. [50:29-30]
Q? What does Yahweh declare will happen to the proud people?
A. He declares that they will stumble and fall. [50:31-32]
Q? Who rescues the oppressed people of Israel?
A. Yahweh of hosts rescues Israel. [50:33-34]
Q? What will enemy soldiers do to Babylonia?
A. They will strike the inhabitants, the officials, the wise men, and all the people. They will strike their false prophets, their strongest warriors, and their horses and chariots. [50:35-37]
Q? What will Babylon become like?
A. Babylon will become like Sodom and Gomorrah. [50:38-40]
Q? What does the king of Babylon hear about the people from the north?
A. The kings hears that they are cruel and have no compassion. [50:41-42]
Q? How does the king of Babylon feel after hearing this report from Jeremiah that an army from the north is coming to overtake Babylon?
A. After hearing the report the king feels like a woman in labor. [50:43]
Q? What will Yahweh do to Babylon?
A. He will chase the people from Babylon and appoint someone to be in charge of it. [50:44]
Q? What does Yahweh plan to do to the people of Babylon?
A. Yahweh plans to completely destroy the people of Babylon. [50:45-46]