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Even Babylon Falls: Jerusalem's Last Days and Kindness to a Captive King | Jeremiah 49–52
Episode Overview
Today we read Jeremiah chapters 49 through 52 and reach the end of the book. The oracles against the nations continue, but they build toward Babylon—the superpower that carried Judah away. The same empire God used as an instrument of judgment is itself judged, and at length. No throne is permanent, no empire beyond accountability. Woven through the announcement is a promise to Israel: they will come home, weeping as they come, their long humiliation finally over.
Then the poetry stops and the record begins. Chapter 52 recounts the fall of Jerusalem in plain historical…
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