rwbs - Jeremiah:50-51

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:1 @ The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. (note:)by…: Hebrews. by the hand of Jeremiah(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:2 @ Declare ye among the nations, and proclaim, and set up a standard; proclaim, conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. (note:)set up: Hebrews. lift up(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:3 @ For out of the north there cometh a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell in it: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:4 @ In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:5 @ They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces toward it,, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant shall not be forgotten.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:6 @ My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. (note:)restingplace: Hebrews. place to lie down in(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:7 @ All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:8 @ Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth from the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:9 @ For, lo, I will raise and cause to come against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. (note:)expert…: or, destroyer(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:10 @ And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:11 @ Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of my heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; (note:)fat: Hebrews. big, or, corpulent(:note)bellow…: or, neigh as steeds

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:12 @ Your mother shall be greatly confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:13 @ Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:14 @ Put yourselves in array against Babylon on every side: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:15 @ Shout against her on every side: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do to her.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:16 @ Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land. (note:)sickle: or, scythe(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:17 @ Israel a scattered sheep; the lions have driven away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:18 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:19 @ And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:20 @ In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:21 @ Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. (note:)of Merathaim: or, of the rebels(:note)Pekod: or, Visitation

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:22 @ A sound of battle in the land, and of great destruction.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:23 @ How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:24 @ I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:25 @ The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:26 @ Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. (note:)from…: Hebrews. from the end(:note)cast…: or, tread her

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:27 @ Slay all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their punishment.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:28 @ The voice of them that flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:29 @ Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, encamp against it on every side; let none of them escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do to her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:30 @ Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:31 @ Behold, I against thee, most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time I will punish thee. (note:)most…: Hebrews. pride(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:32 @ And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all around him. (note:)the…: Hebrews. pride(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:33 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:34 @ Their Redeemer strong; the LORD of hosts his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:35 @ A sword upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:36 @ A sword upon the liars; and they shall become fools: a sword upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. (note:)liars: or, chief stays: Hebrews. bars(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:37 @ A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mixed people that in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasuries; and they shall be robbed.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:38 @ A drought upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it the land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:39 @ Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the isles shall dwell, and the owls shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:40 @ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbour, saith the LORD; shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell in it.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:41 @ Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:42 @ They shall hold the bow and the lance: they cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:43 @ The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands became feeble: anguish took hold of him, pangs as of a woman in travail.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:44 @ Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who a chosen I may appoint over her? for who like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who that shepherd that will stand before me? (note:)appoint me…: or, convent me to plead?(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:45 @ Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make habitation desolate with them.

rwbs@Jeremiah:50:46 @ At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

rwbs@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; (note:)midst: Hebrews. heart(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:2 @ And will send to Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her on all sides.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:3 @ Against bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:4 @ Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:5 @ For Israel not forsaken, nor Judah by his God, by the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:6 @ Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this the time of the LORD’S vengeance; he will render to her a recompence.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:7 @ Babylon a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:8 @ Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, it may be she may be healed.

rwbs@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 to heaven, and is lifted to the skies.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:10 @ The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

rwbs@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 purpose against Babylon, to destroy it; because it the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. (note:)bright: Hebrews. pure(:note)

rwbs@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 spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. (note:)ambushes: Hebrews. liers in wait(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:13 @ O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thy end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:14 @ The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself,, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall raise a shout against thee. (note:)by himself: Hebrews. by his soul(:note)lift up: Heb. utter

rwbs@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.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:16 @ When he uttereth voice, 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 treasuries. (note:)multitude: or, noise(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:17 @ Every man is stupid by knowledge; every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image falsehood, and no breath in them. (note:)is brutish…: or, is more brutish than to know(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:18 @ They vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their punishment they shall perish.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:19 @ The portion of Jacob not like them; for he the one who formed of all things: and the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts his name.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:20 @ Thou my battle axe weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; (note:)with thee: or, in thee, or, by thee(:note)

rwbs@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 its rider;

rwbs@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;

rwbs@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 farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:24 @ And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:25 @ Behold, I against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

rwbs@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. (note:)desolate…: Hebrews. everlasting desolations(:note)

rwbs@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; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:28 @ Prepare against her the nations with the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of his dominion.

rwbs@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.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:30 @ The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they have remained in strong holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

rwbs@Jeremiah: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 end,

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:32 @ And that the fords are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:33 @ For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon like a threshingfloor, time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. (note:)it is…: or, in the time that he thresheth her(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:34 @ Nebuchadnezzar 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 delicacies, he hath cast me out.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:35 @ The violence done to me and to my flesh upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. (note:)The violence…: Hebrews. My violence(:note)flesh: or, remainderinhabitant: Heb. inhabitress

rwbs@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.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:37 @ And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an horror, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:38 @ They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps. (note:)yell: or, shake themselves(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:39 @ In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:40 @ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:41 @ How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an horror among the nations!

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:42 @ The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:43 @ Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwelleth, neither doth son of man pass by it.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:44 @ And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed: and the nations shall not flow together any more to him: even the wall of Babylon shall fall.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:45 @ My people, depart from the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:46 @ And lest your heart should faint, and ye should fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come year, and after that in year a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. (note:)lest: or, let not(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:47 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute 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. (note:)do…: Hebrews. visit upon(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:48 @ Then the heaven and the earth, and all that in them, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:49 @ As Babylon the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. (note:)As…: or, Both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain of Israel, and with Babylon, etc(:note)the earth: or, the country

rwbs@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.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:51 @ We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for foreigners are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’S house.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:52 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:53 @ Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, from me shall spoilers come to her, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:54 @ A sound of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:55 @ Because the LORD hath laid waste Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:56 @ Because the spoiler is come upon her, upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely repay.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:57 @ And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name the LORD of hosts.

rwbs@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 people in the fire, and they shall be weary. (note:)The broad…: or, The walls of broad Babylon(:note)broken: or, made naked

rwbs@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 Seraiah a quiet prince. (note:)with: or, on the behalf of(:note)quiet…: or, prince of Menucha, or, chief chamberlain

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:60 @ So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:61 @ And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou shalt come to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

rwbs@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. (note:)desolate: Hebrews. desolations(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:51:63 @ And it shall be, when thou hast finished reading this book, thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

rwbs@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 the words of Jeremiah.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:1 @ Zedekiah one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. (note:)began…: Hebrews. reigned(:note)