51Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H73072and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H54393Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army.H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H66354They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H23515For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H34786"Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H15767Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H19848Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H74959We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H783410The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H43011"Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H196412"Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H89413O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H121514The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H195915"It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H839416When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H21417Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H730718They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H619Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H803420"You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H446721with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H739222with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H133023with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H546124"I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H306825"Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H202226No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H306827"Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H321828Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H447529The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H342730The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H766531One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H709732the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H92633For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1323H894H1637H6256H1869H4592H6256H7105H93534"Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H174035The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H55936Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H300137and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H342738"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H148439While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H306840I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.H3381H3733H2873H352H626041"How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H147142The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H153043Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H200444And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H530745"Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H306846Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H491047"Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H843248Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the LORD.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H306849Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H77650"You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H382451'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.'H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H100452"Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H60253Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the LORD.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H306854"A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H377855For the LORD is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised,H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H541456for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of recompense; he will surely repay.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H799957I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H663558"Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H328659The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H826960Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H89461And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H169762and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H576963When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H657864and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414