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    TREASURES FROM GOD’S WORD | JEREMIAH 49-50

    Jehovah Blesses Humility and Punishes Arrogance

    50:4-7

    • Repentant Israelites would weep for joy when Jehovah released them from captivity

    • They would acknowledge their covenant with him anew and make the long journey back to Jerusalem to restore true worship

      The Israelites leave Babylon

    50:29, 39

    • Arrogant Babylon would not go unpunished for its excessive cruelty to Jehovah’s people

    • As prophesied, Babylon became an uninhabited wasteland

      An arrogant Babylonian man, and the ruins of Babylon inhabited only by wild animals