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1
Thus
says
the LORD:
"Behold,
I am going to arouse
against
Babylon
And
against
the inhabitants
of Leb-kamai
The spirit
of a destroyer.
2
"I will dispatch
foreigners
to Babylon
that they may winnow
her And may devastate
her land;
For on every side
they will be opposed
to her In the day
of her calamity.
3
"Let not him who
bend
s
his bow
bend
it, Nor
let him rise
up in his scale-armor;
So do not spare
her young men;
Devote
all
her army
to destruction.
4
"They will fall down
slain
in the land
of the Chaldeans,
And pierced through
in their streets."
5
For neither
Israel
nor
Judah
has been forsaken
By his God,
the LORD
of hosts,
Although
their land
is full
of guilt
Before
the Holy One
of
Israel
.
6
Flee
from the midst
of Babylon,
And each
of you save
his life!
Do not be destroyed
in her punishment,
For this
is the LORD'S
time
of vengeance;
He is going to render
recompense
to her.
7
Babylon
has been a golden
cup
in the hand
of the LORD,
Intoxicating
all
the earth.
The nations
have drunk
of her wine;
Therefore
the nations
are going mad.
8
Suddenly
Babylon
has fallen
and been broken;
Wail
over
her! Bring
balm
for her pain;
Perhaps
she may be healed.
9
We applied healing
to Babylon,
but she was not healed;
Forsake
her and let us each
go
to his own country,
For her judgment
has reached
to heaven
And towers
up to the very skies.
10
The LORD
has brought about
our vindication;
Come
and let us recount
in Zion
The work
of the LORD
our God!
11
Sharpen
the arrows,
fill
the quivers!
The LORD
has aroused
the spirit
of the kings
of the Medes,
Because
His purpose
is against
Babylon
to destroy
it; For it is the
vengeance
of the LORD,
vengeance
for His temple.
12
Lift
up a signal
against
the walls
of Babylon;
Post a strong
guard,
Station
sentries,
Place
men in ambush!
For the LORD
has both
purposed
and performed
What
He spoke
concerning
the inhabitants
of Babylon.
13
O you who dwell
by many
waters,
Abundant
in treasures,
Your end
has come,
The measure
of your end.
14
The LORD
of hosts
has sworn
by Himself:
"Surely
I will fill
you with a population
like locusts,
And they will cry
out with shouts
of victory over
you."
15
It is He who made
the earth
by His power,
Who established
the world
by His wisdom,
And by His understanding
He stretched
out the heavens.
16
When He utters
His voice,
there is a tumult
of waters
in the heavens,
And He causes the clouds
to ascend
from the end
of the earth;
He makes
lightning
for the rain
And brings forth
the wind
from His storehouses.
17
All
mankind
is stupid,
devoid
of knowledge;
Every
goldsmith
is put to shame
by his idols,
For his molten images
are deceitful,
And there is no
breath
in them.
18
They are worthless,
a work
of mockery;
In the time
of their punishment
they will perish.
19
The portion
of Jacob
is not like these;
For the Maker
of all
is He, And of the tribe
of His inheritance;
The LORD
of hosts
is His name.
20
He says, "You are My war-club,
My weapon
of war;
And with you I shatter
nations,
And with you I destroy
kingdoms.
21
"With you I shatter
the horse
and his rider,
And with you I shatter
the chariot
and its rider,
22
And with you I shatter
man
and wo
man
,
And with you I shatter
old
man
and youth,
And with you I shatter
young
man
and virgin,
23
And with you I shatter
the shepherd
and his flock,
And with you I shatter
the farmer
and his team,
And with you I shatter
governors
and prefects.
24
"But I will repay
Babylon
and all
the inhabitants
of Chaldea
for all
their evil
that they have done
in Zion
before your eyes,"
declares
the LORD.
25
"Behold,
I am
against
you, O destroying
mountain,
Who destroys
the whole
earth,"
declares
the LORD,
"And I will stretch
out My hand
against
you, And roll you down
from the crags,
And I will make
you a burnt
out mountain.
26
"They will not take
from you even
a stone
for a corner
Nor
a stone
for foundations,
But you will be desolate
forever,"
declares
the LORD.
27
Lift
up a signal
in the land,
Blow
a trumpet
among
the nations
!
Consecrate
the nations
against
her, Summon
against
her the kingdoms
of Ararat,
Minni
and Ashkenaz;
Appoint
a marshal
against
her, Bring
up the horses
like bristly
locusts.
28
Consecrate
the nations
against
her, The kings
of the Medes,
Their governors
and all
their prefects,
And every
land
of their dominion.
29
So
the land
quakes
and writhes,
For the purposes
of the LORD
against
Babylon
stand,
To make
the land
of
Babylon
A desolation
without
inhabitants.
30
The mighty men
of Babylon
have ceased
fighting,
They stay
in the strongholds;
Their strength
is exhausted,
They are becoming
like women;
Their dwelling places
are set on fire,
The bars
of her gates are broken.
31
One courier
runs
to meet
another,
And one messenger
to meet
another,
To tell
the king
of Babylon
That his city
has been captured
from end
to end;
32
The fords
also have been seized,
And they have burned
the marshes
with fire,
And the men
of war
are terrified.
33
For thus
says
the LORD
of hosts,
the God
of Israel:
"The daughter
of Babylon
is like a threshing floor
At
the time
it is stamped firm;
Yet
in a little while
the time
of harvest
will come
for her."
34
"Nebuchadnezzar
king
of Babylon
has devoured
me and crushed
me, He has set me down
like an empty
vessel;
He has swallowed
me like a monster,
He has filled
his stomach
with my delicacies;
He has washed me away.
35
"May the violence
done to me and to my flesh
be upon Babylon,"
The inhabitant
of Zion
will say;
And, "May my blood
be upon the inhabitants
of Chaldea,"
Jerusalem
will say.
36
Therefore
thus
says
the LORD,
"Behold,
I am going to plead
your case
And exact
full vengeance
for you; And I will dry
up her sea
And make
her fountain
dry.
37
"Babylon
will become
a heap
of ruins, a haunt
of jackals,
An object of horror
and hissing,
without
inhabitants.
38
"They will roar
together
like young lions,
They will growl
like lions'
cubs.
39
"When they become heated
up, I will serve
them their banquet
And make them drunk,
that they may become jubilant
And may
sleep
a perpetual
sleep
And not wake
up," declares
the LORD.
40
"I will bring them down
like lambs
to the slaughter,
Like rams
together
with male goats.
41
"
How
Sheshak
has been captured,
And the praise
of the whole
earth
been seized!
How
Babylon
has become
an object of horror
among the nations!
42
"The sea
has come
up over
Babylon;
She has been engulfed
with its tumultuous
waves.
43
"Her cities
have become
an object of horror,
A parched
land
and a desert,
A
land
in
which
no
man
lives
And through
which
no
son
of
man
passes.
44
"I will punish
Bel
in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed
come
out of his mouth;
And the nations
will no
longer
stream
to him. Even
the wall
of Babylon
has fallen down!
45
"Come forth
from her midst,
My people,
And each
of you save
yourselves
From the fierce
anger
of the LORD.
46
"Now so
that your heart
does not grow faint,
And you are not afraid
at the report
that will be heard
in the land--
For the report
will come
one year,
And after
that another report
in another year,
And violence
will be in the land
With ruler
against
ruler--
47
Therefore
behold,
days
are coming
When I will punish
the idols
of Babylon;
And her whole
land
will be put to shame
And all
her slain
will fall
in her midst.
48
"Then heaven
and earth
and all
that is in them Will shout for joy
over
Babylon,
For the destroyers
will come
to her from the north,"
Declares
the LORD.
49
Indeed
Babylon
is to fall
for
the slain
of Israel,
As also
for
Babylon
the slain
of all
the earth
have fallen.
50
You who have escaped
the sword,
Depart!
Do not stay!
Remember
the LORD
from afar,
And let Jerusalem
come
to your mind.
51
We are ashamed
because
we have heard
reproach;
Disgrace
has covered
our faces,
For aliens
have entered
The holy places
of the LORD'S
house.
52
"Therefore
behold,
the days
are coming,"
declares
the LORD,
"When I will punish
her idols,
And the mortally wounded
will groan
throughout
her land.
53
"Though
Babylon
should ascend
to the heavens,
And though
she should fortify
her lofty
stronghold,
From Me destroyers
will come
to her," declares
the LORD.
54
The sound
of an outcry
from Babylon,
And of great
destruction
from the land
of the Chaldeans!
55
For the LORD
is going to destroy
Babylon,
And He will make
her loud
noise
vanish
from her. And their waves
will roar
like many
waters;
The tumult
of their voices
sounds forth.
56
For the destroyer
is coming
against
her,
against
Babylon,
And her mighty men
will be captured,
Their bows
are shattered;
For the LORD
is a God
of recompense,
He will fully
repay.
57
"I will make
her princes
and her wise men
drunk,
Her governors,
her prefects
and her mighty men,
That they may
sleep
a perpetual
sleep
and not wake
up," Declares
the King,
whose name
is the LORD
of hosts.
58
Thus
says
the LORD
of hosts,
"The broad
wall
of Babylon
will be completely
razed
And her high
gates
will be set
on fire;
So the peoples
will toil
for nothing,
And the nations
become exhausted
only for fire."
59
The message
which
Jeremiah
the prophet
commanded
Seraiah
the son
of Neriah,
the grandson
of Mahseiah,
when he went
with Zedekiah
the king
of Judah
to Babylon
in the fourth
year
of his reign.
(Now
Seraiah
was quartermaster.)
60
So Jeremiah
wrote
in a single
scroll
all
the calamity
which
would come
upon Babylon,
that is,
all
these
words
which
have been written
concerning
Babylon.
61
Then Jeremiah
said
to Seraiah,
"As soon as you come
to Babylon,
then see
that you read
all
these
words
aloud,
62
and say,
'You, O LORD,
have promised
concerning
this
place
to cut it off,
so that there will be nothing
dwelling
in it, whether
man
or beast,
but it will be a perpetual
desolation.'
63
"And as soon as you finish
reading
this
scroll,
you will tie
a stone
to it and throw
it into the middle
of the Euphrates,
64
and say,
'Just so
shall Babylon
sink down
and not rise
again because
of the calamity
that I am going to bring
upon her; and they will become exhausted.'"
Thus
far
are the words
of Jeremiah.
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