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Jeremiah 51
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51There's more. GOD says more: "Watch this: I'm whipping up A death-dealing hurricane against Babylon—'Hurricane Persia'— against all who live in that perverse land.H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H7307 2I'm sending a cleanup crew into Babylon. They'll clean the place out from top to bottom. When they get through there'll be nothing left of her worth taking or talking about. They won't miss a thing. A total and final Doomsday!H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H5439 3Fighters will fight with everything they've got. It's no holds barred. They will spare nothing and no one. It's final and wholesale destruction—the end!H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H6635 4Babylon littered with the wounded, streets piled with corpses.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H2351 5It turns out that Israel and Judah are not widowed after all. As their God, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, I am still alive and well, committed to them even though They filled their land with sin against Israel's most Holy God.H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H3478 6"Get out of Babylon as fast as you can. Run for your lives! Save your necks! Don't linger and lose your lives to my vengeance on her as I pay her back for her sins.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H1576 7Babylon was a fancy gold chalice held in my hand, Filled with the wine of my anger to make the whole world drunk. The nations drank the wine and they've all gone crazy.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H1984 8Babylon herself will stagger and crash, senseless in a drunken stupor—tragic! Get anointing balm for her wound. Maybe she can be cured."H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H7495 9"We did our best, but she can't be helped. Babylon is past fixing. Give her up to her fate. Go home. The judgment on her will be vast, a skyscraper-memorial of vengeance.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H7834 10"GOD has set everything right for us. Come! Let's tell the good news Back home in Zion. Let's tell what our GOD did to set things right.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H430 11"Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! GOD has stirred up the kings of the Medes, infecting them with war fever: 'Destroy Babylon!' GOD's on the warpath. He's out to avenge his Temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H1964 12Give the signal to attack Babylon's walls. Station guards around the clock. Bring in reinforcements. Set men in ambush. GOD will do what he planned, what he said he'd do to the people of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H894 13You have more water than you need, you have more money than you need— But your life is over, your lifeline cut."H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H1215 14GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies has solemnly sworn: "I'll fill this place with soldiers. They'll swarm through here like locusts chanting victory songs over you."H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H1959 15By his power he made earth. His wisdom gave shape to the world. He crafted the cosmos.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H8394 16He thunders and rain pours down. He sends the clouds soaring. He embellishes the storm with lightnings, launches the wind from his warehouse.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H214 17Stick-god worshipers look mighty foolish! god-makers embarrassed by their handmade gods! Their gods are frauds, dead sticks— deadwood gods, tasteless jokes.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H7307 18They're nothing but stale smoke. When the smoke clears, they're gone.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H6 19But the Portion-of-Jacob is the real thing; he put the whole universe together, With special attention to Israel. His name? GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies!H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H8034 20God says, "You, Babylon, are my hammer, my weapon of war. I'll use you to smash godless nations, use you to knock kingdoms to bits.H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H4467 21I'll use you to smash horse and rider, use you to smash chariot and driver.H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H7392 22I'll use you to smash man and woman, use you to smash the old man and the boy. I'll use you to smash the young man and young woman,H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H1330 23use you to smash shepherd and sheep. I'll use you to smash farmer and yoked oxen, use you to smash governors and senators.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H5461 24"Judeans, you'll see it with your own eyes. I'll pay Babylon and all the Chaldeans back for all the evil they did in Zion." GOD's Decree.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H3068 25"I'm your enemy, Babylon, Mount Destroyer, you ravager of the whole earth. I'll reach out, I'll take you in my hand, and I'll crush you till there's no mountain left. I'll turn you into a gravel pit—H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H2022 26no more cornerstones cut from you, No more foundation stones quarried from you! Nothing left of you but gravel." GOD's Decree.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H3068 27"Raise the signal in the land, blow the shofar-trumpet for the nations. Consecrate the nations for holy work against her. Call kingdoms into service against her. Enlist Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a field marshal against her, and round up horses, locust hordes of horses!H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H3218 28Consecrate the nations for holy work against her— the king of the Medes, his leaders and people.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H4475 29"The very land trembles in terror, writhes in pain, terrorized by my plans against Babylon, Plans to turn the country of Babylon into a lifeless moonscape—a wasteland.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H3427 30Babylon's soldiers have quit fighting. They hide out in ruins and caves— Cowards who've given up without a fight, exposed as cowering milksops. Babylon's houses are going up in flames, the city gates torn off their hinges.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H7665 31Runner after runner comes racing in, each on the heels of the last, Bringing reports to the king of Babylon that his city is a lost cause.H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H7097 32The fords of the rivers are all taken. Wildfire rages through the swamp grass. Soldiers desert left and right.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H926 33I, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, said it would happen: 'Daughter Babylon is a threshing floor at threshing time. Soon, oh very soon, her harvest will come and then the chaff will fly!'H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1323H894H1637H6256H1869H4592H6256H7105H935 34"Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon chewed up my people and spit out the bones. He wiped his dish clean, pushed back his chair, and belched—a huge gluttonous belch.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H1740 35Lady Zion says, 'The brutality done to me be done to Babylon!' And Jerusalem says, 'The blood spilled from me be charged to the Chaldeans!'H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H559 36Then I, GOD, step in and say, 'I'm on your side, taking up your cause. I'm your Avenger. You'll get your revenge. I'll dry up her rivers, plug up her springs.H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H3001 37Babylon will be a pile of rubble, scavenged by stray dogs and cats, A dumping ground for garbage, a godforsaken ghost town.'H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H3427 38"The Babylonians will be like lions and their cubs, ravenous, roaring for food.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H1484 39I'll fix them a meal, all right—a banquet, in fact. They'll drink themselves falling-down drunk. Dead drunk, they'll sleep—and sleep, and sleep . . . and they'll never wake up." GOD's Decree.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H3068 40"I'll haul these 'lions' off to the slaughterhouse like the lambs, rams, and goats, never to be heard of again.H3381H3733H2873H352H6260 41"Babylon is finished— the pride of the whole earth is flat on her face. What a comedown for Babylon, to end up inglorious in the sewer!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H1471 42Babylon drowned in chaos, battered by waves of enemy soldiers.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H1530 43Her towns stink with decay and rot, the land empty and bare and sterile. No one lives in these towns anymore. Travelers give them a wide berth.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H2004 44I'll bring doom on the glutton god-Bel in Babylon. I'll make him vomit up all he gulped down. No more visitors stream into this place, admiring and gawking at the wonders of Babylon. The wonders of Babylon are no more.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H5307 45Run for your lives, my dear people! Run, and don't look back! Get out of this place while you can, this place torched by GOD's raging anger.H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H3068 46Don't lose hope. Don't ever give up when the rumors pour in hot and heavy. One year it's this, the next year it's that— rumors of violence, rumors of war.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H4910 47Trust me, the time is coming when I'll put the no-gods of Babylon in their place. I'll show up the whole country as a sickening fraud, with dead bodies strewn all over the place.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H8432 48Heaven and earth, angels and people, will throw a victory party over Babylon When the avenging armies from the north descend on her." GOD's Decree!H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H3068 49"Babylon must fall— compensation for the war dead in Israel. Babylonians will be killed because of all that Babylonian killing.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H776 50But you exiles who have escaped a Babylonian death, get out! And fast! Remember GOD in your long and distant exile. Keep Jerusalem alive in your memory."H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H3824 51How we've been humiliated, taunted and abused, kicked around for so long that we hardly know who we are! And we hardly know what to think— our old Sanctuary, GOD's house, desecrated by strangers.H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H1004 52"I know, but trust me: The time is coming" —GOD's Decree— "When I will bring doom on her no-god idols, and all over this land her wounded will groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H602 53Even if Babylon climbed a ladder to the moon and pulled up the ladder so that no one could get to her, That wouldn't stop me. I'd make sure my avengers would reach her." GOD's Decree.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H3068 54"But now listen! Do you hear it? A cry out of Babylon! An unearthly wail out of Chaldea!H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H3778 55GOD is taking his wrecking bar to Babylon. We'll be hearing the last of her noise— Death throes like the crashing of waves, death rattles like the roar of cataracts.H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H5414 56The avenging destroyer is about to enter Babylon: Her soldiers are taken, her weapons are trashed. Indeed, GOD is a God who evens things out. All end up with their just deserts.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H7999 57"I'll get them drunk, the whole lot of them— princes, sages, governors, soldiers. Dead drunk, they'll sleep—and sleep and sleep . . . and never wake up." The King's Decree. His name? GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies!H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H6635 58GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: "The city walls of Babylon—those massive walls!— will be flattened. And those city gates—huge gates!— will be set on fire. The harder you work at this empty life, the less you are. Nothing comes of ambition like this but ashes."H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H3286 59Jeremiah the prophet gave a job to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when Seraiah went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon. It was in the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign. Seraiah was in charge of travel arrangements.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H8269 60Jeremiah had written down in a little booklet all the bad things that would come down on Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H894 61He told Seraiah, "When you get to Babylon, read this out in public.H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H1697 62Read, 'You, O GOD, said that you would destroy this place so that nothing could live here, neither human nor animal—a wasteland to top all wastelands, an eternal nothing.'H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H5769 63"When you've finished reading the page, tie a stone to it, throw it into the River Euphrates, and watch it sink.H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H6578 64Then say, 'That's how Babylon will sink to the bottom and stay there after the disaster I'm going to bring upon her.'"H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414


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