51Thus says the LORD: I am going to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai;H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H73072and I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they shall winnow her. 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 array himself in his coat of mail. Do not spare her young men; utterly destroy her entire army.H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H66354They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H23515Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H34786Flee from the midst of Babylon, save your lives, each of you! Do not perish because of her guilt, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he is repaying her what is due.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H15767Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, and so the nations went mad.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H19848Suddenly Babylon has fallen and is shattered; wail for her! Bring balm for her wound; perhaps she may be healed.H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H74959We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Forsake her, and let each of us go to our own country; for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H783410The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H43011Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! 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, vengeance for his temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H196412Raise a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; post sentinels; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H89413You who live by mighty 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 troops like a swarm of locusts, and they shall raise a shout of victory over you.H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H195915It 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 lightnings for the rain, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H21417Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols; for their 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 the LORD, 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.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H803420You are my war club, my weapon of battle: with you I smash nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H446721with you I smash the horse and its rider; with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H739222with you I smash man and woman; with you I smash the old man and the boy; with you I smash the young man and the girl;H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H133023with you I smash shepherds and their flocks; with you I smash farmers and their teams; with you I smash governors and deputies.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H546124I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the LORD.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H306825I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, that destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burned-out mountain.H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H202226No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the LORD.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H306827Raise a standard in the land, 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, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H342730The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her buildings are set 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 from end to end:H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H709732the fords have been seized, the marshes have been burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H92633For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Daughter 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"King Nebuchadrezzar 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 belly with my delicacies, he has spewed me out.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H174035May my torn flesh be avenged on Babylon," the inhabitants of Zion shall say. "May my blood be avenged on the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem shall say.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H55936Therefore thus says the LORD: I am going to defend 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, a den of jackals, an object of horror and of hissing, without inhabitant.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H342738Like lions they shall roar together; they shall growl like lions' whelps.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H148439When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink and make them drunk, until they become merry and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the LORD.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H306840I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.H3381H3733H2873H352H626041How Sheshach is taken, the pride of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H147142The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H153043Her cities have become an object of horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no mortal passes.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H200444I will punish Bel in Babylon, and make him disgorge what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer stream to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H530745Come out of her, my people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD!H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H306846Do not be faint-hearted or fearful at the rumors heard in the land—one year one rumor comes, the next year another, rumors of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H491047Assuredly, 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 her midst.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H843248Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall shout for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, says the LORD.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H306849Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H77650You survivors of the sword, go, do not linger! Remember the LORD in a distant land, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H382451We are put to shame, for we have heard insults; dishonor has covered our face, for aliens have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H100452Therefore the time is surely coming, says the LORD, when I will punish her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H60253Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, from me destroyers would come upon her, says the LORD.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H306854Listen!—a cry from Babylon! A great crashing from the land of the Chaldeans!H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H377855For the LORD is laying Babylon waste, and stilling her loud clamor. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the sound of their clamor resounds;H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H541456for a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken; for the LORD is a God of recompense, he will repay in full.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H799957I will make her officials and her sages drunk, also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H663558Thus 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 exhaust themselves for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H328659The word that the prophet Jeremiah commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, when he went with King Zedekiah of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H826960Jeremiah wrote in a scroll all the disasters that would come on 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 yourself threatened to destroy this place so that neither human beings nor animals shall live in it, and it shall be desolate forever.'H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H576963When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H657864and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414