51This is what the Lord says: "Look, I'm going to stir up a destroying wind against Babylon and the inhabitants of Leb-kamai.H559H3068H5782H894H3427H3820H6965H7843H73072I'll send foreigners to Babylon, and they'll winnow her, and devastate her land. They'll come against her from every side on the day of her disaster.H7971H894H2114H2219H1238H776H3117H7451H54393Don't let the archer bend the bow; don't let him rise up in his armor. Don't spare her young men. Completely destroy her entire army.H1869H1869H1869H7198H5927H5630H2550H970H2763H66354The slain will fall in the land of Chaldea, pierced through in her streets.H2491H5307H776H3778H1856H23515Indeed, Israel and Judah haven't been abandoned by their God, by the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, although their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."H3478H488H3063H430H3068H6635H776H4390H817H6918H34786Flee from Babylon, and each of you, escape with your life! Don't be destroyed because of her guilt, for it's time for the Lord's vengeance. He is paying back what is due to her.H5127H8432H894H4422H376H5315H1826H5771H6256H3068H5360H7999H15767Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine, therefore the nations have gone mad.H894H2091H3563H3068H3027H776H7937H1471H8354H3196H1471H19848Suddenly Babylon fell down and was shattered. Wail for her! Bring balm for her wound, perhaps she will be healed.H894H6597H5307H7665H3213H3947H6875H4341H74959We tried to heal Babylon, but she wouldn't be healed. Leave her, and let each of us go to his own country. For her judgment has reached to the heavens, and is lifted up to the sky.H7495H894H7495H5800H3212H376H776H4941H5060H8064H5375H783410The Lord will vindicate us. Come! Let us declare the work of the Lord our God in Zion.H3068H3318H6666H935H5608H6726H4639H3068H43011Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes?he has decided to destroy Babylon. Indeed, it's the Lord's vengeance, vengeance for his temple.H1305H2671H4390H7982H3068H5782H7307H4428H4074H4209H894H7843H5360H3068H5360H196412Lift up the battle standard against Babylon's walls. Strengthen the guard; post watchmen. Set men in position for an ambush. For the Lord will both plan and carry out what he has declared against the inhabitants of Babylon.H5375H5251H2346H894H4929H2388H6965H8104H3559H693H3068H2161H6213H1696H3427H89413You who live beside many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, your life thread is cut.H7931H7931H7227H4325H7227H214H7093H935H520H121514The Lord of the Heavenly Armies has sworn by himself: "I'll surely fill you with soldiers like a swarm of locusts, and they'll sing songs of victory over you."H3068H6635H7650H5315H4390H120H3218H6030H195915He made the earth by his power. He established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he spread out the heavens.H6213H776H3581H3559H8398H2451H5186H8064H839416When his voice sounds, there is thunder from the waters of heaven, and he makes clouds rise up from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings wind out of his storehouses.H5414H6963H1995H4325H8064H5387H5927H7097H776H6213H1300H4306H3318H7307H21417Everyone is stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his own idols, for his images are false, and there is no life in them.H120H1197H1847H6884H3001H6459H5262H8267H730718They're worthless, a work of mockery, and when the time of punishment comes, they'll perish.H1892H4639H8595H6256H6486H619The Portion of Jacob is not like these. He made everything, including the tribe of his inheritance. The Lord of the Heavenly Armies is his name.H2506H3290H3335H7626H5159H3068H6635H803420"You are my war-club and weapons of war. I'll smash nations with you and destroy kingdoms with you.H4661H3627H4421H5310H1471H7843H446721I'll smash the horse and its rider with you. I'll smash the chariot and its rider with you.H5310H5483H7392H5310H7393H739222I'll smash man and woman with you. I'll smash old man and young boy with you. I'll smash young man and young woman with you.H5310H376H802H5310H2205H5288H5310H970H133023I'll smash the shepherd and his flock with you. I'll smash the farmer and his team of oxen with you. I'll smash governors and officials with you.H5310H7462H5739H5310H406H6776H5310H6346H546124"Before your eyes I'll repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all the evil that they did in Zion," declares the Lord.H7999H894H3427H3778H7451H6213H6726H5869H5002H306825"Look, I'm against you, destroying mountain, who destroys the whole earth," declares the Lord. "I'll stretch out my hand against you and roll you down from the crags. And I'll make you a burned-out mountain.H4889H2022H5002H3068H7843H776H5186H3027H1556H5553H5414H8316H202226They won't get a cornerstone or a foundation stone from you, because you will be a wasteland forever," declares the Lord.H3947H68H6438H68H4146H8077H5769H5002H306827Lift up a battle standard in the land. Blow a trumpet among the nations. Consecrate the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her. Appoint a commander against her, bring up horses like bristling locusts.H5375H5251H776H8628H7782H1471H6942H1471H8085H4467H780H4508H813H6485H2951H5483H5927H5569H321828Consecrate the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors, their prefects, and every land under their domination.H6942H1471H4428H4074H6346H5461H776H447529The land quakes and writhes because the Lord's purposes against Babylon stand firm, to make the land of Babylon a waste without inhabitants.H776H7493H2342H4284H3068H6965H894H7760H776H894H8047H342730The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting. They stay in their strongholds; their strength is dried up; they have become like women. Her buildings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.H1368H894H2308H3898H3427H4679H1369H5405H802H3341H4908H1280H766531One runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been seized from one end to the other.H7323H7323H7125H7323H5046H7125H5046H5046H4428H894H5892H3920H709732The fords have been captured, and the marshes burned with fire. The soldiers are terrified.H4569H8610H98H8313H784H582H4421H92633For this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it's pounded down. In just a little while, the time of her harvest will come."H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1323H894H1637H6256H1869H4592H6256H7105H93534"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me. He set me down like an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a monster, and filled his belly with my delicacies. Then he washed me away.H5019H4428H894H398H2000H3322H7385H3627H1104H8577H4390H3770H5730H174035May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon," says the inhabitant of Zion. "May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea," says Jerusalem.H2555H7607H894H3427H6726H559H1818H3427H3778H3389H55936Therefore this is what the Lord says: "Look, I'm going to argue your case and take vengeance for you. I'll dry up her sea and make her fountain dry.H559H3068H7378H7379H5358H5360H2717H3220H4726H300137Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a refuge for jackals, a desolate place and an object of scorn.H894H1530H4583H8577H8047H8322H342738They'll roar together like young lions; they'll growl like lion cubs.H7580H3162H3715H5286H738H148439When they're excited I'll serve them their banquet, and make them drunk until they're merry. They'll sleep forever and won't wake up," declares the Lord.H2527H7896H4960H7937H5937H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H306840"I'll bring them down like lambs for the slaughter, like rams with male goats."H3381H3733H2873H352H626041"How Sheshak will be captured, and the prince of all the earth seized. How Babylon will become an object of horror among the nations!H8347H3920H8416H776H8610H894H8047H147142The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.H3220H5927H894H3680H1995H153043Her cities will become an object of horror, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no human being passes.H5892H8047H6723H776H6160H776H376H3427H1121H120H5674H200444I'll punish Bel in Babylon, and I'll make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth. The nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon will fall.H6485H1078H894H3318H6310H1105H1471H5102H2346H894H530745"Come out of her, my people, flee for your lives from the Lord's anger!H5971H3318H8432H4422H376H5315H2740H639H306846And now, so your heart does not grow faint, and so you don't become frightened because of the rumors that are heard in the land?a rumor comes one year and then after itanother rumor comes the next year about violence in the land and one ruler against another ruler.H3824H7401H3372H8052H8085H776H8052H935H8141H310H8141H8052H2555H776H4910H491047Therefore, look, days are coming when I'll punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will be put to shame, and all her slain will fall in her midst.H3117H935H6485H6456H894H776H954H2491H5307H843248Then the heavens and the earth and all that are in them will shout for joy about Babylon because the destroyers will come out of the north against her," declares the Lord.H8064H776H7442H894H7703H935H6828H5002H306849"So Babylon will fall because of the slain of Israel, even as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.H1571H894H2491H3478H5307H894H5307H2491H77650Go, you who escaped the sword! Don't stand around! Remember the Lord from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind.H6405H2719H1980H5975H2142H3068H7350H3389H5927H382451We have been put to shame because we have heard insults. Disgrace has covered our faces because foreigners have come into the Holy Places of the Lord's house.H954H8085H2781H3639H3680H6440H2114H935H4720H3068H100452"Therefore, look, days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I'll punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H6456H776H2491H60253"Though Babylon should reach up to the heavens and fortify her high fortresses, from me destroyers will come to her," declares the Lord.H894H5927H8064H1219H4791H5797H227H7703H935H5002H306854The sound of a cry is coming from Babylon, great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans.H6963H2201H894H1419H7667H776H377855For the Lord is destroying Babylon, and he will make the loud sounds from her disappear. Their waves will roar like many waters, the noise of their voices will sound forth.H3068H7703H894H6H1419H6963H1530H1993H7227H4325H7588H6963H541456Indeed, the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon. Her warriors are captured, and her bows are broken. For the Lord is a God of recompense, and he will repay in full.H7703H935H894H1368H3920H7198H2865H3068H410H1578H7999H799957I'll make their leaders, their wise men, their governors, their deputies, and their warriors drunk so that they sleep forever and don't wake up," declares the King whose name is the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.H7937H8269H2450H6346H5461H1368H3462H5769H8142H6974H5002H4428H8034H3068H663558This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies says: "The broad wall of Babylon will be completely leveled, and its high gate set on fire. and so the peoples toil for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."H559H3068H6635H7342H2346H894H6209H6209H1364H8179H3341H784H5971H3021H7385H3816H1767H784H328659This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet delivered to Neriah's son Seraiah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with King Zedekiah of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.H1697H3414H5030H6680H8304H1121H5374H1121H4271H3212H6667H4428H3063H894H7243H8141H4427H8304H4496H826960Jeremiah wrote on a single scroll all the disasters that would come on Babylon, all these things that were written about Babylon.H3414H3789H259H5612H7451H935H894H1697H3789H89461Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,H3414H559H8304H935H894H7200H7121H169762and say, 'Lord, you have declared about this place that you would destroy it so that there wouldn't be an inhabitant in it, neither human nor animal, because it will be a wasteland forever.'H559H3068H1696H4725H3772H3427H120H929H8077H576963When you finish reading this scroll, tie a rock around it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.H3615H7121H5612H7194H68H7993H8432H657864Then say, 'Babylon will sink like this and won't rise from the disaster that I'm bringing on her. Her people will be exhausted.'" This concludes the writings of Jeremiah.H559H894H8257H6965H6440H7451H935H3286H1697H3414