strkjv@Jeremiah:51:1
@ Thus
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
;
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:3
@ Against 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:4
@ Thus the
slain
shall
fall
in the
land
of the
Chaldeans
, and they that are thrust
through
in her
streets
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:5
@ For
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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
LORDS
vengeance
; he will
render
unto her a
recompence
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:7
@
Babylon
hath been a
golden
cup
in the
LORDS
hand
, that made all the
earth
drunken
: the
nations
have
drunken
of her
wine
; therefore the
nations
are
mad
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:8
@
Babylon
is
suddenly
fallen
and
destroyed
:
howl
for her;
take
balm
for her
pain
, if so be she may be
healed
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
reacheth
unto
heaven
, and is lifted
up
even to the
skies
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:10
@ The
LORD
hath brought
forth
our
righteousness
:
come
, and let us
declare
in
Zion
the
work
of the
LORD
our
God
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:11
@ Make
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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
hath both
devised
and
done
that which he
spake
against the
inhabitants
of
Babylon
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:13
@ O thou that
dwellest
upon
many
waters
,
abundant
in
treasures
, thine
end
is
come
, and the
measure
of thy
covetousness
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:14
@ The
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.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:15
@ He hath
made
the
earth
by his
power
, he hath
established
the
world
by his
wisdom
, and hath stretched
out
the
heaven
by his
understanding
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:16
@ When 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:18
@ They are
vanity
, the
work
of
errors
: in the
time
of their
visitation
they shall
perish
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:20
@ Thou 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
;
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:21
@ And 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
;
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:22
@ With 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
;
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:23
@ I 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
,
saith
the
LORD
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:25
@ Behold, 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:26
@ And 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:27
@ Set 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
Ashk@;
appoint
a
captain
against her; cause the
horses
to come
up
as the
rough
caterpillers
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:30
@ The 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:31
@ One
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
,
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:32
@ And that the
passages
are
stopped
, and the
reeds
they have
burned
with
fire
, and the
men
of
war
are
affrighted
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:33
@ For 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
m@, and the
time
of her
harvest
shall
come
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:34
@
Nebuchadrezzar
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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:36
@ Therefore 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:37
@ And
Babylon
shall become
heaps
, a
dwellingplace
for
dragons
, an
astonishment
, and an
hissing
, without an
inhabitant
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:38
@ They shall
roar
together
like
lions
: they shall
yell
as
lions
whelps
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
,
saith
the
LORD
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:40
@ I will bring them
down
like
lambs
to the
slaughter
, like
rams
with he
goats
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
!
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:42
@ The
sea
is come
up
upon
Babylon
: she is
covered
with the
multitude
of the
waves
thereof.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:43
@ Her
cities
are a
desolation
, a
dry
land
, and a
wilderness
, a
land
wherein no
man
dwelleth
, neither doth any
son
of
man
pass
thereby
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:44
@ And 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:45
@ My
people
, go ye
out
of the
midst
of her, and
deliver
ye every
man
his
soul
from the
fierce
anger
of the
LORD
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:46
@ And 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
sh@, and
violence
in the
land
,
ruler
against
ruler
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
,
saith
the
LORD
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:49
@
As
Babylon
hath caused the
slain
of
Israel
to
fall
, so at
Babylon
shall
fall
the
slain
of all the
earth
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:50
@ Ye that have
escaped
the
sword
, go
away
, stand not
still
:
remember
the
LORD
afar
off
, and let
Jerusalem
come
into your
mind
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:51
@ We are
confounded
, because we have
heard
reproach
:
shame
hath
covered
our
faces
: for
strangers
are
come
into the
sanctuaries
of the
LORDS
house
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:52
@ Wherefore, 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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,
saith
the
LORD
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:54
@ A
sound
of a
cry
cometh from
Babylon
, and
great
destruction
from the
land
of the
Chaldeans
:
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:55
@ Because 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
:
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:56
@ Because 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
,
saith
the
King
, whose
name
is the
LORD
of
hosts
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:58
@ Thus
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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah: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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:61
@ And
Jeremiah
said
to
Seraiah
, When thou
comest
to
Babylon
, and shalt
see
, and shalt
read
all these
words
;
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:62
@ Then 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
.
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:63
@ And 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
:
strkjv@Jeremiah:51:64
@ And 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
.
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