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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 51
51:1 Thus says 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;
51:2 And 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.
51:3 Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against
him that lifts himself up in his brigandine: and spare all of you not her
young men; destroy all of you utterly all her host.
51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they
that are thrust through in her streets.
51:5 For Israel has 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.
51:6 Flee 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.
51:7 Babylon has 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.
51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm
for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her,
and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reachs unto
heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
51:10 The LORD has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD has 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.
51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch
strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD has both
devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
51:13 O you that dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your
end has come, and the measure of your covetousness.
51:14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will
fill you with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout
against you.
51:15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world
by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
51:16 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the
heavens; and he causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth:
he makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.
51:17 Every 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.
51:18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish.
51:19 The 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.
51:20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: for with you will I
break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
51:21 And with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
51:22 With you also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with
you will I break in pieces old and young; and with you will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid;
51:23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock;
and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and
with you will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of
Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says
the LORD.
51:25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD,
which destroys all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon you,
and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
51:26 And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone
for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says the LORD.
51:27 Set all of you 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 caterpillars.
51:28 Prepare 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.
51:29 And 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.
51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained
in their holds: their might has failed; they became as women: they have
burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at every quarter,
51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned
with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
51:33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter
of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little
while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
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 belly with my delicates, he has cast me out.
51:35 The 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.
51:36 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs
dry.
51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons,
an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions'
whelps.
51:39 In 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,
says the LORD.
51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams
with he goats.
51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth
surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
51:42 The sea has come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude
of the waves thereof.
51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a
land wherein no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out
of his mouth that which he has swallowed up: and the nations shall not
flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
51:45 My people, go all of you out of the midst of her, and deliver
all of you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
51:46 And lest your heart faint, and all of you 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.
51:47 Therefore, 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.
51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north,
says the LORD.
51:49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon
shall fall the slain of all the earth.
51:50 All of you that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:
remember the LORD far off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has
covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's
house.
51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will
do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan.
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto
her, says the LORD.
51:54 A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from
the land of the Chaldeans:
51:55 Because the LORD has 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:
51:56 Because the spoiler has 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.
51:57 And 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, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
51:58 Thus says 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.
51:59 The 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.
51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall
see, and shall read all these words;
51:62 Then shall you say, O LORD, you have 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.
51:63 And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book,
that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
51:64 And you shall 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.
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