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Jeremiah 51
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51Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H7307 2and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H5439 3Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army.H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H6635 4They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H2351 5For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H3478 6"Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.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 went mad.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H1984 8Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H7495 9We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H7834 10The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H430 11"Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! 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, the vengeance for his temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H1964 12"Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H894 13O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H1215 14The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H1959 15"It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H8394 16When 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 lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H214 17Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H7307 18They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H6 19Not like these is he who is 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.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H8034 20"You are my hammer and weapon of war: 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 the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H1330 23with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H5461 24"I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H3068 25"Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H2022 26No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H3068 27"Set up a standard on the earth; 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.H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H3218 28Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H4475 29The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H3427 30The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H7665 31One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H7097 32the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H926 33For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of 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."H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1323H894H1637H6256H1869H4592H6256H7105H935 34"Nebuchadnezzar the king 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 stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H1740 35The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H559 36Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H3001 37and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H3427 38"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H1484 39While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H3068 40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.H3381H3733H2873H352H6260 41"How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H1471 42The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H1530 43Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H2004 44And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H5307 45"Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H3068 46Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H4910 47"Therefore, behold, 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 the midst of her.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H8432 48Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the LORD.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H3068 49Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H776 50"You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H3824 51'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.'H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H1004 52"Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H602 53Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the LORD.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H3068 54"A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H3778 55For the LORD is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised,H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H5414 56for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of recompense; he will surely repay.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H7999 57I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H6635 58"Thus 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 labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H3286 59The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H8269 60Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H894 61And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H1697 62and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.'H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H5769 63When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H6578 64and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414


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