JER-51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against
Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that
rise up against me, a destroying wind;
JER-51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her,
and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall
be against her round about.
JER-51:3 Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow,
and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and
spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
JER-51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.
JER-51:5 For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his
God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin
against the Holy One of Israel.
JER-51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man
his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time
of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
JER-51:7 Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand,
that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her
wine; therefore the nations are mad.
JER-51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;
take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
JER-51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:
forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for
her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up [even] to
the skies.
JER-51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come,
and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
JER-51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD
hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his
device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the
vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
JER-51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make
the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for
the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against
the inhabitants of Babylon.
JER-51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy
covetousness.
JER-51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying],
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee.
JER-51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heaven by his understanding.
JER-51:16 When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude
of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
JER-51:17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder
is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]
falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
JER-51:18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
JER-51:19 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is]
the former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his
inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
JER-51:20 Thou [art] my battle ax [and] weapons of war: for with
thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I
destroy kingdoms;
JER-51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his
rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his
rider;
JER-51:22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman;
and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with
thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
JER-51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and
his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman
and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces
captains and rulers.
JER-51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in
Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
JER-51:25 Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain,
saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will
stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the
rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
JER-51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner,
nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,
saith the LORD.
JER-51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet
among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and
Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to
come up as the rough caterpillars.
JER-51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the
Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all
the land of his dominion.
JER-51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every
purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make
the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
JER-51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they
have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they
became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars
are broken.
JER-51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger
to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is
taken at [one] end,
JER-51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they
have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
JER-51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time
to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest
shall come.
JER-51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me,
he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath
swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out.
JER-51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon
Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the
inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
JER-51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead
thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her
sea, and make her springs dry.
JER-51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for
dragons, and astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
JER-51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell
as lions' whelps.
JER-51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will
make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
JER-51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he goats.
JER-51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the
whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment
among the nations!
JER-51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with
the multitude of the waves thereof.
JER-51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a
wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any]
son of man pass thereby.
JER-51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring
forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the
nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall
of Babylon shall fall.
JER-51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver
ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
JER-51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour
that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come [one]
year, and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour,
and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
JER-51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do
judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land
shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst
of her.
JER-51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that [is]
therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come
unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
JER-51:49 As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall,
so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
JER-51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not
still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into
your mind.
JER-51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach:
shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
JER-51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her
land the wounded shall groan.
JER-51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though
she should fortify the height of her strength, [yet] from me
shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
JER-51:54 A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
JER-51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed
out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great
waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
JER-51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, [even] upon
Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows
is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.
JER-51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men],
her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall
sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose
name [is] the LORD of hosts.
JER-51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of
Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be
burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the
folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
JER-51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah
the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with
Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of
his reign. And [this] Seraiah [was] a quiet prince.
JER-51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should
come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written
against Babylon.
JER-51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to
Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
JER-51:62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against
this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither
man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
JER-51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading
this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it
into the midst of Euphrates:
JER-51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall
not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they
shall be weary. Thus far [are] the words of Jeremiah.
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