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Jeremiah 51
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51This is what the LORD says: I am about to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon and against the population of Leb-qamai.H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H7307
2I will send strangers to Babylon who will scatter her and strip her land bare, for they will come against her from every side in the day of disaster.H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H5439
3Don't let the archer string his bow; don't let him put on his armor. Don't spare her young men; completely destroy her entire army!H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H6635
4Those who were slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, those who were pierced through, in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H2351
5For Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H3478
6Leave Babylon; save your lives, each of you! Don't be silenced by her guilt. For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance— He will pay her what she deserves.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H1576
7Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore, the nations go mad.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H1984
8Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Wail for her; get balm for her wound— perhaps she can be healed.H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H7495
9We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches as far as the clouds.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H7834
10The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let's tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H430
11Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has put it into the mind of the kings of the Medes because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the LORD's vengeance, vengeance for His temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H1964
12Raise up a signal flag against the walls of Babylon; fortify the watch post; set the watchmen in place; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both planned and accomplished what He has threatened against those who live in Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H894
13You who reside by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, your life thread is cut.H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H1215
14The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will sing the victory song over you.H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H1959
15He made the earth by His power, established the world by His wisdom, and spread out the heavens by His understanding.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H8394
16When He thunders, the waters in the heavens are in turmoil, and He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings the wind from His storehouses.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H214
17Everyone is stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith is put to shame by [his] carved image, for his cast images are a lie; there is no breath in them.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H7307
18They are worthless, a work to be mocked. At the time of their punishment they will be destroyed.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H6
19Jacob's Portion is not like these because He is the One who formed all things. [Israel is] the tribe of His inheritance; the LORD of Hosts is His name.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H8034
20You are My battle club, My weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H4467
21With you I will smash the horse and its rider; with you I will smash the chariot and its rider.H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H7392
22With you I will smash man and woman; with you I will smash the old man and the youth; with you I will smash the young man and the virgin.H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H1330
23With you I will smash the shepherd and his flock; with you I will smash the farmer and his ox-team. With you I will smash governors and officials.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H5461
24"I will repay Babylon and all the residents of Chaldea for all their evil they have done in Zion before your very eyes." [This is] the LORD's declaration.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H3068
25Look, I am against you, devastating mountain— [this is] the LORD's declaration— you devastate the whole earth. I will stretch out My hand against you, roll you down from the cliffs, and turn you into a burned-out mountain.H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H2022
26No one will be able to retrieve a cornerstone or a foundation stone from you, because you will become desolate forever. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H3068
27Raise a signal flag in the land; blow a ram's horn among the nations; set apart the nations against her. Summon kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like a swarm of locusts.H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H3218
28Set apart the nations for battle against her— the kings of Media, her governors and all her officials, and all the lands they rule.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H4475
29The earth quakes and trembles, because the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon an uninhabited desolation.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H3427
30Babylon's warriors have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon's homes have been set ablaze, her gate bars are shattered.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H7665
31Messenger races to meet messenger, and herald to meet herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end [to end].H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H7097
32The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H926
33For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1323H894H1637H6256H1869H4592H6256H7105H935
34"Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty dish; he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies; he has vomited me out,"H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H1740
35says the inhabitant of Zion; "Let the violence [done] to me and my family [be done] to Babylon. Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea," says Jerusalem.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H559
36Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I am about to plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her fountain run dry.H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H3001
37Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a jackals' den, a desolation and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H3427
38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H1484
39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they revel. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H3068
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats.H3381H3733H2873H352H6260
41How Sheshach has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H1471
42The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered with its turbulent waves.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H1530
43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no human being passes through.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H2004
44I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him vomit what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even Babylon's wall will fall.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H5307
45Come out from among her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the LORD's burning anger.H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H3068
46May you not become faint-hearted and fearful when the report is proclaimed in the land, for the report will come one year, and then another the next year. There will be violence in the land with ruler against ruler.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H4910
47Therefore, look, the days are coming when I will punish Babylon's carved images. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H8432
48Heaven and earth and everything in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H3068
49Babylon must fall [because of] the slain of Israel, even as the slain of all the earth fell because of Babylon.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H776
50You who have escaped the sword, go and do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H3824
51We are ashamed because we have heard insults. Humiliation covers our faces because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD's temple.H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H1004
52Therefore, look, the days are coming— [this is] the LORD's declaration— when I will punish her carved images, and the wounded will groan throughout her land.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H602
53Even if Babylon should ascend to the heavens and fortify her tall fortresses, destroyers will come against her from Me. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H3068
54The sound of a cry from Babylon! The sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H3778
55For the LORD is going to devastate Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. Their waves roar like abundant waters; the tumult of their voice resounds,H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H5414
56for a destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, their bows shattered, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will certainly repay.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H7999
57I will make her princes and sages drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. [This is] the King's declaration; the LORD of Hosts is His name.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H6635
58This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Babylon's thick walls will be totally demolished, and her high gates consumed by fire. The peoples will have labored for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves [only to feed] the fire.H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H3286
59[This is] what Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, the quartermaster, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H8269
60Jeremiah wrote on one scroll about all the disaster that would come to Babylon; all these words were written against Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H894
61Jeremiah told Seraiah, "When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H1697
62You must say, 'LORD, You have threatened to cut off this place so that no one will live in it— man or beast. Indeed, it will remain desolate forever.'H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H5769
63When you have finished reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H6578
64Then say, 'In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.' " The words of Jeremiah end here.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414


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