51Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai, A destroying wind.H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H73072And I will send winnowers to Babylon, Who shall winnow her and empty her land. For in the day of doom They shall be against her all around.H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H54393Against her let the archer bend his bow, And lift himself up against her in his armor. Do not spare her young men; Utterly destroy all her army.H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H66354Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, And those thrust through in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H23515For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the LORD of hosts, Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel."H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H34786Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; He shall recompense her.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H15767Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H19848Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H74959We would have healed Babylon, But she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country; For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H783410The LORD has revealed our righteousness. Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H43011Make the arrows bright! Gather the shields! The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it, Because it is the vengeance of the LORD, The vengeance for His temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H196412Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon; Make the guard strong, Set up the watchmen, Prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both devised and done What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H89413O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your covetousness.H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H121514The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, And they shall lift up a shout against you."H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H195915He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, And stretched out the heaven by His understanding.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H839416When He utters His voice—There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: "He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries."H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H21417Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image; For his molded image is falsehood, And there is no breath in them.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H730718They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall perish.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H619The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Maker of all things; And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance. The LORD of hosts is His name.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H803420"You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms;H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H446721With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H739222With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; With you I will break in pieces old and young; With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H133023With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H546124"And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight," says the LORD.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H306825"Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth," says the LORD. "And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain.H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H202226They shall not take from you a stone for a corner Nor a stone for a foundation, But you shall be desolate forever," says the LORD.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H306827Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H321828Prepare against her the nations, With the kings of the Medes, Its governors and all its rulers, All the land of his dominion.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H447529And the land will tremble and sorrow; For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H342730The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They have remained in their strongholds; Their might has failed, They became like women; They have burned her dwelling places, The bars of her gate are broken.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H766531One runner will run to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H709732The passages are blocked, The reeds they have burned with fire, And the men of war are terrified.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H92633For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh her; 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 up like a monster; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, He has spit me out.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H174035Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; "And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!" Jerusalem will say.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H55936Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H300137Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H342738They shall roar together like lions, They shall growl like lions' whelps.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H148439In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake," says the LORD.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H306840"I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with male goats.H3381H3733H2873H352H626041"Oh, how Sheshach is taken! Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H147142The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H153043Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H200444I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; And the nations shall not stream to him anymore. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H530745"My people, go out of the midst of her! And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the LORD.H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H306846And lest your heart faint, And you fear for the rumor that will be heard in the land (A rumor will come one year, And after that, in another year A rumor will come, And violence in the land, Ruler against ruler),H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H491047Therefore behold, the days are coming That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon; Her whole land shall be ashamed, And all her slain shall fall in her midst.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H843248Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them Shall sing joyously over Babylon; For the plunderers shall come to her from the north," says the LORD.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H306849As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H77650You who have escaped the sword, Get away! Do not stand still! Remember the LORD afar off, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H382451We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H100452"Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will bring judgment on her carved images, And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H60253Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven, And though she were to fortify the height of her strength, Yet from Me plunderers would come to her," says the LORD.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H306854The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H377855Because the LORD is plundering Babylon And silencing her loud voice, Though her waves roar like great waters, And the noise of their voice is uttered,H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H541456Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men are taken. Every one of their bows is broken; For the LORD is the God of recompense, He will surely repay.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H799957"And I will make drunk Her princes and wise men, Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H663558Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; The people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary."H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H328659The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H826960So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H89461And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words,H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H169762"then you shall say, 'O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.'H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H576963"Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates.H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H657864"Then you shall say, 'Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414