Jeremiah:51

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* Thus says LORD : Behold , I will raise up against Babylon , and against those who dwell in Leb-kamai , a destroying wind . * And I will send strangers to Babylon , who shall winnow her , and they shall empty her land . For in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about . * Against [him who ] bends let the archer bend his bow , and against [him who ] lifts himself up in his coat of mail . And spare ye not her young men . Destroy ye utterly all her host . * And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans , and thrust through in her streets . * For Israel is not forsaken , nor Judah , of his God , of LORD of hosts , though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel . * Flee out of the midst of Babylon , and save every man his life . Be not cut off in her iniquity , for it is the time of LORD 's vengeance ; he will render to her a recompense . * Babylon has been a golden cup in LORD 's hand , that made all the earth drunken . The nations have drunk of her wine , therefore the nations are mad . * Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed . Wail for her . Take balm for her pain , if so be she may be healed . * We would have healed Babylon , but she is not healed . Forsake her , and let us go each one into his own country . For her judgment reaches to heaven , and is lifted up even to the skies . * LORD has brought forth our righteousness . Come , and let us declare in Zion the work of LORD our God . * Make sharp the arrows . Hold firm the shields . LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes , because his purpose is against Babylon , to destroy it . For it is the vengeance of LORD , the vengeance of his temple . * Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon . Make the watch strong . Set the watchmen . Prepare the ambushes . For LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon . * O thou who dwell upon many waters , abundant in treasures , thine end has come , the measure of thy covetousness . * LORD of hosts has sworn by himself , [saying ], Surely I will fill thee with men as with the canker-worm , and they shall lift up a shout against thee . * He has made the earth by his power . He has established the world by his wisdom , and by his understanding he has stretched out the heavens . * When he utters his voice , there is a tumult of waters in the heavens , and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth . He makes lightnings for the rain , and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries . * Every man has become brutish , without knowledge . Every goldsmith is put to shame by his image , for his molten image is falsehood , and there is no breath in them . * They are vanity , a work of delusion . In the time of their visitation they shall perish . * The portion of Jacob is not like these , for he is the former of all things , and [Israel ] is the tribe of his inheritance . LORD of hosts is his name . * Thou are my battle-axe and weapons of war . And with thee I will break in pieces the nations , and with thee I will destroy kingdoms , * and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider , * and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides in it , and with thee I will break in pieces man and woman , and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the youth , and with thee I will break in pieces the * and with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock , and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke [of oxen ], and with thee I will break in pieces governors and deputies . * 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 , says LORD . * Behold , I am against thee , O destroying mountain , says LORD , which destroys 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 . * And they shall not take from thee a stone for a corner , nor a stone for foundations , but thou shall be desolate forever , says LORD . * 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 Ashkenaz . Appoint a marshal against her . Cause the horses to come u * Prepare against her the nations , the kings of the Medes , the governors of it , and all the deputies of it , and all the land of their dominion . * And the land trembles and is in pain , for the purposes of LORD against Babylon stand , to make the land of Babylon a desolation , without inhabitant . * The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting ; they remain in their strongholds . Their might has failed . They have become as women . Her dwelling-places are set on fire . Her bars are broken . * One post shall run to meet another , and one messenger to met another , to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter . * And the passages are seized , and the reeds they have burned with fire , and the men of war are frightened . * For thus says LORD 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 shall come for her . * Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me . He has crushed me . He has made me an empty vessel . He has , like a monster , swallowed me up . He has filled his stomach with my delicacies . He has cast me out . * The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon , the inhabitant of Zion shall say . And , My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea , Jerusalem shall say . * Therefore thus says LORD : Behold , I will plead thy cause , and take vengeance for thee . And I will dry up her sea , and make her fountain dry . * And Babylon shall become heaps , a dwelling-place for jackals , an astonishment , and a hissing , without inhabitant . * They shall roar together like young lions . They shall growl as lions ' whelps . * When they are heated , I will make their feast . And I will make them drunken , that they may rejoice , and sleep a perpetual sleep , and not wake , says LORD . * I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter , like rams with he-goats . * How Sheshach is taken , and the praise of the whole earth seized ! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations ! * The sea has come up upon Babylon . She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof . * Her cities have become a desolation , a dry land , and a desert , a land in which no man dwells , nor does any son of man pass thereby . * And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon , and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up . And the nations shall not flow any more to him . Yea , the wall of Babylon shall fall . * My people , go ye out of the midst of her , and save yourselves each man from the fierce anger of LORD . * And let not your heart faint . Neither fear ye for the news that shall be heard in the land . For news shall come one year , and after that in another year , news , and violence in the land , ruler against ruler . * 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 . * Then the heavens and the earth , and all that is therein , shall sing for joy over Babylon . For the destroyers shall come to her from the north , says LORD . * As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall , so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land . * Ye who have escaped the sword , go ye ; do not stand still . Remember LORD from afar , and let Jerusalem come into your mind . * We are confounded , because we have heard reproach . Confusion has covered our faces . For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of LORD 's house . * Therefore , behold , the days come , says LORD , that I will execute judgment upon her graven images , and through all her land the wounded shall groan . * Though Babylon should mount up to heaven , and though she should fortify the height of her strength , yet from me destroyers shall come to her , says LORD . * The sound of a cry from Babylon , and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans ! * For LORD lays Babylon waste , and destroys the great voice out of her , and their waves roar like many waters ; the noise of their voice is uttered . * For the destroyer has come upon her , even upon Babylon , and her mighty men are taken . Their bows are broken in pieces . For LORD is a God of recompenses ; he will surely requite . * And I will make drunk her rulers and her wise men , her governors and her deputies , and her mighty men . And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep , and not wake , says the King , whose name is LORD of hosts . * Thus says LORD of hosts : The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown , and her high gates shall be burned with fire . And the peoples shall labor for vanity , and the nations for the fire , and they shall be weary . * The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah , the son of Mahseiah , when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign . Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain . * And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon , even all these words that are written concerning Babylon . * And Jeremiah said to Seraiah , When thou come to Babylon , then see that thou read all these words . * And say , O LORD , thou have spoken concerning this place , to cut it off , that none shall dwell therein , neither man nor beast , but that it shall be desolate forever . * And it shall be , when thou have made an end of reading this book , that thou shall bind a stone to it , and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates . * And thou shall say , Thus Babylon shall sink , and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her , and they shall be weary . Thus far are the words of Jeremiah .

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