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Jeremiah 51
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51THUS SAYS the Lord: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon and against those who dwell among those rebelling against Me a destroying wind {and} spirit;H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H7307 2And I will send to Babylon strangers {or} winnowers who will winnow her and will empty her land; for in the day of calamity they will be against her on every side.H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H5439 3Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. And spare not her young men; devote [to God] and utterly destroy her entire host.H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H6635 4Thus they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H2351 5For Israel has not been widowed {and} forsaken, nor has Judah, by his God, the Lord of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H3478 6Flee out of the midst of Babylon! Let every man save his life! Let not destruction come upon you through her [punishment for] sin {and} guilt. For it is the time of the Lord's vengeance; He will render to her a recompense.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H1576 7Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, making all the earth drunken. The nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H1984 8Babylon has suddenly fallen and is shattered (destroyed)! Wail for her [if you care to]! Get balm for her [incurable] pain; if [you do] so she may [possibly] be healed!H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H7495 9We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her and let us each go to his own country, for her guilt {and} the judgment against her reach to heaven and are lifted even to the skies.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H7834 10The Lord has brought forth {and} made known the righteousness [of our cause]; come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H430 11Make clean {and} sharp the arrows, take up the shields {or} coats of armor [and cover your bodies with them]! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes [who with the Persians will destroy the Babylonian Empire], for His purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it; for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance [upon Babylon for the plundering and destruction] of His temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H1964 12Set up a standard {or} signal [to spread the news] upon the walls of Babylon! Make the watch {and} blockade strong, set the guards, prepare the ambushes! For the Lord has both purposed and done that which He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H894 13O [Babylon] you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, and the line measuring your life is cut.H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H1215 14The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with [a swarm of] locusts [who strip a land clean], and they will lift up a song {and} shout [of victory] over you.H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H1959 15He made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H8394 16When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from His treasuries.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H214 17Every man has become stupid {and} brutelike, without knowledge [of God]; every goldsmith is put to shame by the images he has made; for his molten idols are a lie, and there is no breath [of life] in them.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H7307 18They are worthless (emptiness, falsity, futility), a work of delusion {and} worthy of derision; in the time of their inspection {and} punishment they shall [helplessly] perish.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H6 19Not like these [gods] is He Who is the Portion of Jacob [the true God on Whom Israel has a claim], for He is the One Who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance--the Lord of hosts is His name.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H8034 20You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-ax {or} maul and weapon of war--for with you I break nations in pieces, with you I destroy kingdoms,H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H4467 21With you I break in pieces the horse and his rider, with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer,H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H7392 22With you I break in pieces man and woman, with you I break in pieces old man and youth, with you I break in pieces young man and maiden,H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H1330 23With you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, with you I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen, and with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H5461 24And I will [completely] repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil that they have done in Zion--before your very eyes [I will do it], says the Lord.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H3068 25Behold, I am against you, says the Lord, O destroying mountain [which is burning out, you who will be as barren and desolate as an extinct volcano], you who [would] destroy the whole earth. I will stretch out My hand over {and} against you and roll you down from the [burnt] crags and will make you a burnt-out mountain [of combustive fires].H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H2022 26And [O Babylon] they shall not take your cracked stones for a cornerstone, or any stone for foundations, but you shall be waste {and} desolate forever, says the Lord.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H3068 27Set up a standard {or} signal in the land [to spread the news]! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare {and} dedicate the nations for war against her; call against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up like [a swarm of] locusts [when their wings are not yet released from their horny cases].H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H3218 28Prepare {and} dedicate the nations for war against her--the kings of Media, with their governors and commanders (deputies), and every land of their dominion.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H4475 29[I foresee this:] The land trembles and writhes in pain {and} sorrow, for the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand--to make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H3427 30The mighty warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight; they have remained in their holds. Their might has failed; they have become [weak and helpless] like women. Her dwelling places are burned up; her bars [and defenses generally] are broken.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H7665 31One post shall run to meet another and one messenger to meet another to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side {and} to its farthest end,H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H7097 32And that the passages [or ferries across the Euphrates] are stopped, and the great marshes they [the Medes] have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H926 33For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is [being prepared]; yet a little while and the time of harvest shall come to her.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1323H894H1637H6256H1869H4592H6256H7105H935 34[The inhabitants of Zion say] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has crushed us, he has made us an empty vessel. Like a monster he has swallowed us up, he has filled his belly with our delicacies; he has rinsed us out {and} cast us away.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H1740 35May the violence done to me and to my flesh {and} blood be upon Babylon, will the inhabitant of Zion say; and, May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, will Jerusalem say.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H559 36Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her lake {or} great reservoir and make her fountain dry.H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H3001 37And Babylon shall become heaps [of ruins], a dwelling place of jackals, a horror (an astonishing desolation) and a hissing [of amazement], without inhabitant.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H3427 38They [the Chaldean lords] shall be roaring together [before their sudden capture] like young lions [over their prey], they [the princes] shall be growling like lions' whelps.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H1484 39When the revelers are inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath] and make them drunk, that they may rejoice and fall asleep to a perpetual sleep and not waken, says the Lord.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H3068 40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with he-goats.H3381H3733H2873H352H6260 41How Sheshach [Babylon] is taken! And the praise of the whole earth is surprised {and} seized! How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation {and} a horror among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H1471 42The sea has come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the tumult {and} multitude of its waves.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H1530 43Her cities have become a desolation {and} a horror, a land of drought and a wilderness, a land in which no one lives, nor does any son of man pass through it.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H2004 44And I will punish {and} execute judgment upon Bel [the god] in Babylon and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed up [the sacred vessels and the people of Judah and elsewhere who were taken captive]. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon has fallen!H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H5307 45My people, come out of the midst of her! And let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the Lord!H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H3068 46And beware, lest your heart faint and you be afraid at the report (rumor) heard in the land; for in one year shall one report come and in another year another report, and violence shall be in the land, ruler against ruler.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H4910 47Therefore behold, the days will come when I will execute judgment {and} punishment upon the idols of Babylon; her whole land will be confounded {and} put to shame, and all her slain will fall in the midst of her.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H8432 48Then heaven and earth and all that is in them shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the [Median] destroyers shall come against her from the north, says the Lord.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H3068 49As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all [her] land.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H776 50You who have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still! [Seriously and earnestly] remember the Lord from afar [Babylon], and let [desolate] Jerusalem come into your mind.H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H3824 51We are confounded {and} ashamed, for we have heard reproach; confusion {and} shame have covered our faces, for strangers have come into the [most] sacred parts of the sanctuary of the Lord [even those forbidden for entrance by all but the high priest or the appointed priests].H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H1004 52Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will execute judgment upon [Babylon's] idols {and} images, and throughout all her land the wounded will groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H602 53Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height (her lofty stronghold), yet destroyers will come upon her from Me, says the Lord.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H3068 54The sound of a cry [comes] from Babylon, and [the sound of] great destruction {and} ruin from the land of the Chaldeans!H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H3778 55For the Lord is destroying Babylon {and} laying her waste and stilling her great voice [the hum of the city's life]. And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters, the noise of their voices is raised up [like the tramping of an army].H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H5414 56For the destroyer is coming upon her, upon Babylon; and her mighty warriors are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the Lord is a God of recompense; He will surely requite.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H7999 57And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her commanders (deputies) and her mighty warriors; and they will sleep a perpetual sleep and not waken, says the King--the Lord of hosts is His name.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H6635 58Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown {and} [the foundations] made bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; the peoples shall labor in vain, and the nations [only] to satisfy the fire, and they shall be weary.H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H3286 59The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now this Seraiah was chief chamberlain {or} quartermaster [and brother of Baruch].H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H8269 60So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon--even all these words that are written against Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H894 61And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see to it that you read all these words.H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H1697 62Then say, O Lord, You have spoken concerning this place that it shall be cut off, so that nothing shall remain and dwell in it, neither man nor beast; but it shall be desolate forever.H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H5769 63And it shall be that when you have finished reading this book, you shall bind a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates.H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H6578 64Then say, Thus will Babylon sink and not rise because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and [the Babylonians] will be weary (hopelessly exhausted). Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414


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