Jeremiah 50:35-38
When God judges a proud empire, every source of its confidence—military strength, wisdom, wealth, and idols—fails at once.
35 “A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men.
36 A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
37 A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed.
38 A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
When God judges a proud empire, every source of its confidence—military strength, wisdom, wealth, and idols—fails at once.
To pronounce a sweeping series of judgments against Babylon’s leaders, warriors, wise men, and idols, declaring that the empire’s strength and wisdom will collapse under the LORD’s sword.
Jeremiah 50:35–38 continues the prophecy against Babylon with a repeated declaration that a sword will come upon the empire. The passage exposes Babylon’s dependence upon human wisdom and idolatry as ultimately futile.
Babylon Judged: The Fall of the Hammer and the Return of the LORD’s Flock
The LORD breaks Babylon, the proud hammer of the whole earth, so that his scattered flock may return, seek him, and be restored under his everlasting covenant mercy.