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Jer.|51:1|-|Thus says Jehovah,I will stir up against Babylon and against the inhabitants of |1|Leb-kamai
A destroying wind.
Jer.|51:2|-|And I will send |1|strangers against Babylon, and they will winnow her,And they will empty her land
When they come against her from every sideIn the evil day.
Jer.|51:3|-|Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow,And against him who stands up in his armor;
And let them not spare her young men,But let them utterly destroy all her army.
Jer.|51:4|-|And they will fall down slain in the land of the ChaldeansAnd pierced through in her streets.
Jer.|51:5|-|For neither Israel nor Judah is forsakenBy his God, by Jehovah of hosts;
But |1|their land is full of guiltAgainst the Holy One of Israel.
Jer.|51:6|-||1a|Flee from the midst of Babylon,And let each man save his life;
Do not be cut off in her iniquity;For this is a time of vengeance to Jehovah;
He will give full recompense to her.
Jer.|51:7|-|Babylon has been a golden |a|cup in Jehovah’s handThat has made all the earth drunk.
The nations have drunk of her |b|wine;Therefore the nations have become mad.
Jer.|51:8|-|Suddenly Babylon has |a|fallen and become broken;Howl over her;
Take balm for her pain,If perhaps she may be healed.
Jer.|51:9|-|We tried to heal Babylon, but she is not healed;|a|Forsake her, and let each one of us go to his own land;
For her judgment has reached to |b|heavenAnd has been lifted up to the clouds.
Jer.|51:10|-|Jehovah has brought forth our |a|righteousnesses;Come and let us |b|relate in Zion
The work of Jehovah our God.
Jer.|51:11|-|Polish the arrows,Take up the shields.
Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the |a|Medes, because His purpose is against Babylon, to destroy her; for this is the |1|vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance for His temple.
Jer.|51:12|-|Lift up a standard against the walls of Babylon;Make the watch strong.
Set the watchmen;Prepare the ambushers;
For Jehovah has both purposed and doneWhat He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jer.|51:13|-|O you who dwell by many |a|waters,Abundant in treasures,
Your end has come,The measure of your unjust gain.
Jer.|51:14|-|Jehovah of hosts has sworn by Himself,I will surely fill you with men like |a|locusts,
And they will raise a shout of victory over you.
Jer.|51:15|-||a|It is He who made the earth by His power,Who established the world by His wisdom,
And by His understanding He |b|stretched out the heavens.
Jer.|51:16|-|When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,|a|And He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rainAnd brings forth wind from His treasuries.
Jer.|51:17|-|Every man is stupid, without knowledge;Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol;
For his molten image is falsehood,And there is no breath in them.
Jer.|51:18|-|They are |a|vanity, the work of delusion;At the time of their punishment they will perish.
Jer.|51:19|-|The |a|Portion of Jacob is not like these;For He is the One who formed everything,
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;Jehovah of hosts is His name.
Jer.|51:20|-|He says, You are My |a|hammer,My weapons of war;
And with you I will shatter nations,And with you I will destroy kingdoms,
Jer.|51:21|-|And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider,And with you I will shatter the chariot and its rider,
Jer.|51:22|-|And with you I will shatter man and woman,And with you I will shatter old man and young,
And with you I will shatter young man and virgin,
Jer.|51:23|-|And with you I will shatter the shepherd and his flock,And with you I will shatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen,
And with you I will shatter governors and officials.
Jer.|51:24|-|And I will |a|repay BabylonAnd all the inhabitants of Chaldea
With all their evil which they have doneIn Zion before your eyes, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|51:25|-|Indeed, I am against you, O mountain of destruction,Declares Jehovah,
Which destroys the whole earth;And I will stretch out My hand upon you
And roll you down from the rocksAnd make you a burning mountain.
Jer.|51:26|-|And they will not take from you a stone for the cornerOr a stone for the foundations;
For you will be an eternal |a|desolation, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|51:27|-|Lift up a standard in the land;Blow a trumpet among the nations;
Prepare the nations against her;Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
Appoint an officer against her;Bring up the horses like terrifying locusts.
Jer.|51:28|-|Prepare the nations against her,The kings of the |a|Medes,
|1|Their governors and all |1|their officials,And all the land of |2|their dominion.
Jer.|51:29|-|And the land trembles and writhes,For the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon stand,
To make the land of Babylon a waste,|a|Without inhabitant.
Jer.|51:30|-|The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;They remain in strongholds;
Their might has failed; they have become like women.Her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
Jer.|51:31|-|Runner runs to meet runner,And messenger to meet messenger,
To announce to the king of BabylonThat his city has been captured from end to end.
Jer.|51:32|-|And the crossing places have been seized,And they burn the marshes with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.
Jer.|51:33|-|For thus says Jehovah 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 harvest will come to her.
Jer.|51:34|-|Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;He has crushed me;
He has made me an empty vessel;He has swallowed me up like a dragon;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;He has washed me out.
Jer.|51:35|-|The violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon!The inhabitant of Zion will say;
And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!Jerusalem will say.
Jer.|51:36|-|Therefore thus says Jehovah,I will indeed plead your cause
And execute vengeance for you;And I will dry up her sea
And make her fountain dry.
Jer.|51:37|-|And Babylon will become a heap of ruins,A |a|habitation of jackals,
An astonishment and a hissing,Without inhabitant.
Jer.|51:38|-|They will roar together like young lions;They will growl like lions’ whelps.
Jer.|51:39|-|When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink;And I will make them drunk, that they may be merry
And sleep an eternal sleepAnd not wake up, declares Jehovah.
Jer.|51:40|-|And I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,Like rams with male goats.
Jer.|51:41|-|How Sheshach has been captured,And the praise of all the earth seized!
How Babylon has become an astonishmentAmong the nations!
Jer.|51:42|-|The sea has come up over Babylon;She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
Jer.|51:43|-|Her cities have become a waste,A dry land and a desert,
A land in which no one dwells,Through which no person passes.
Jer.|51:44|-|And I will punish |1|Bel in BabylonAnd bring what he has swallowed out of his mouth;
And the nations will not stream unto him any longer;Even the wall of Babylon will fall down.
Jer.|51:45|-||1a|Come out from the midst of her, My people,And let each man save his life
From the burning anger of Jehovah.
Jer.|51:46|-|And lest your heart faintAnd you become afraid at the report that will be heard in the land—
For the report will come in one year;And after that a report in another year
And violence in the earth,Ruler against ruler—
Jer.|51:47|-|Therefore indeed, days are coming,When I will punish the idols of Babylon;
And her whole land will be put to shame,And all her slain will fall in her midst.
Jer.|51:48|-|And the heavens and the earth and all which is in themWill give a |a|ringing shout over Babylon;
For out of the north the destroyers will come against her,Declares Jehovah.
Jer.|51:49|-|Babylon is also to fall for the slain of Israel,As all the slain of the earth have fallen for Babylon.
Jer.|51:50|-|You who have escaped the sword,Go and do not stand still;
Remember Jehovah from afar,And let |a|Jerusalem come up in your heart.
Jer.|51:51|-|We have been put to shame, for we have heard reproach;Disgrace has covered our faces;
For strangers have comeInto the holy places of the house of Jehovah.
Jer.|51:52|-|Therefore indeed, days are coming,Declares Jehovah,
When I will punish her idols,And throughout her land the wounded will groan.
Jer.|51:53|-|Though Babylon mount up to the |a|heavens,And though she fortify the height of her strength,
Destroyers will come from Me to her,Declares Jehovah.
Jer.|51:54|-|The sound of a cry from Babylon,And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Jer.|51:55|-|For Jehovah is destroying Babylon,And He will cause the loud voice to perish from her.
And |1|their waves roar like many waters;The noise of their voice is raised.
Jer.|51:56|-|For a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon,And her mighty men are taken captive;
Their bows are broken into pieces;For Jehovah is a |a|God of recompense;
He will repay in full.
Jer.|51:57|-|And I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,Her governors and her officials and her mighty men;
And they will sleep an eternal sleepAnd not wake up, declares the King,
Whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
Jer.|51:58|-|Thus says Jehovah of hosts,The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly laid bare;
Her high gates will be burned with fire.So the peoples will have labored in vain;
And the nations, only for fire; and they will have wearied themselves.
Jer.|51:59|-|The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with |a|Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)
Jer.|51:60|-|And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
Jer.|51:61|-|And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words;
Jer.|51:62|-|And say, O Jehovah, You have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, so that nothing should dwell in it, neither man nor animal, for it will be an eternal desolation.
Jer.|51:63|-|And as soon as you have finished reading this book, you shall bind a |a|stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,
Jer.|51:64|-|And say, Thus Babylon will sink and will not rise up because of the evil which I will bring upon it, and they will weary themselves. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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