51Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H73072And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H54393Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H66354Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H23515For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H34786Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H15767Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H19848Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H74959We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H783410The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H43011Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H196412Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H89413O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H121514The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H195915He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H839416When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H21417Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H730718They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H619The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H803420Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H446721And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H739222With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H133023I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H546124And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H306825Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H202226And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H306827Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H321828Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H447529And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H342730The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H766531One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H709732And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H92633For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1323H894H1637H6256H1869H4592H6256H7105H93534Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H174035The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H55936Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H300137And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H342738They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H148439In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H306840I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.H3381H3733H2873H352H626041How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H147142The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H153043Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H200444And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H530745My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H306846And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H491047Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H843248Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H306849As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H77650Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H382451We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H100452Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H60253Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H306854A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H377855Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H541456Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H799957And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H663558Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H328659The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H826960So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H89461And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H169762Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H576963And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H657864And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414