Jeremiah:51

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* Thus saith the LORD : Behold , I will raise up against Babylon , and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai , a destroying wind . * And I will send unto Babylon strangers , that shall fan her , and they shall empty her land ; for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about . * Let the archer bend his bow against her , and let him lift himself up against her 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 widowed , nor Judah , of his God , of the LORD of hosts ; for 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 the LORD 'S vengeance ; He will render unto her a recompense . * Babylon hath 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 every one into his own country ; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven , and is lifted up even to the skies . * The LORD hath brought forth our victory ; come , and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God . * Make bright the arrows , fill the quivers , the LORD hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes ; because His device is against Babylon , to destroy it ; for it is the vengeance of the 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 the LORD hath both devised and done that which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon . * O thou that dwellest upon many waters , abundant in treasures , thine end is come , the measure of thy covetousness . * The LORD of hosts hath sworn by Himself : Surely I will fill thee with men , as with the canker-worm , and they shall lift up a shout against thee . * He that hath made the earth by His power , that hath established the world by His wisdom , and hath stretched out the heavens by His discernment ; * At the sound of His giving a multitude of waters in the heavens , He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth ; He maketh lightnings at the time of the rain , and bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries ; * Every man is proved to be brutish , for the knowledge--every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image--that 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 ; the LORD of hosts is His name . * Thou art My maul and weapons of war , and with thee will I shatter the nations , and with thee will I destroy kingdoms ; * And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider , and with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth therein ; * And with thee will I shatter man and woman , and with thee will I shatter the old man and the youth , and with thee will I shatter the young man and the maid ; * And with thee will I shatter the shepherd and his flock , and with thee will I shatter the husbandman and his yoke of oxen , and with thee will I shatter governors and deputies . * 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 . * Behold , I am 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 . * 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 . * Set ye up a standard in the land , blow the horn 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 up as the rough canker - worm . * Prepare against her the nations , the kings of the Medes , the governors thereof , and all the deputies thereof , and all the land of his dominion . * And the land quaketh and is in pain ; for the purposes of the LORD are performed against Babylon , to make the land of Babylon a desolation , without inhabitant . * The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight , they remain in their strongholds ; their might hath failed , they are become as women ; her dwelling-places are set on fire ; her bars are broken . * One post runneth to meet another , and one messenger to meet an other , to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter ; * And the fords are seized , and the castles they have burned with fire , and the men of war are affrighted . * For thus saith the 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 hath devoured me , he hath crushed me , he hath set me down as an empty vessel , he hath swallowed me up like a dragon , he hath filled his maw with my delicacies ; he hath washed me clean . * 'The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon ', shall the inhabitant of Zion say ; and : 'My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea ', shall Jerusalem say . * 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 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 . * With their poison I will prepare their feast , and I will make them drunken , that they may be convulsed , and sleep a perpetual sleep , and not wake , saith the LORD . * I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter , like rams with he-goats . * How is Sheshach taken ! and the praise of the whole earth seized ! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations ! * The sea is come up upon Babylon ; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof . * Her cities are become a desolation , a dry land , and a desert , a land wherein no man dwelleth , neither doth any son of man pass thereby . * 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 any more unto him ; yea , the wall of Babylon shall fall . * My people , go ye out of the midst of her , and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of the LORD . * And let not your heart faint , neither fear ye , for the rumour that shall be heard in the land ; for a rumour shall come one year , and after that in another year a rumour , and violence in the land , ruler against ruler . * Therefore behold , the days come , that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon , and her whole land shall be ashamed ; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her . * Then the heaven and the earth , and all that is therein , shall sing for joy over Babylon ; for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north , saith the LORD . * As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall , so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land . * Ye that have escaped the sword , go ye , stand not still ; remember the LORD from afar , and let Jerusalem come into your mind . * 'We are ashamed , because we have heard reproach , confusion hath covered our faces ; for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD 'S house .' * 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 . * 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 . * Hark ! a cry from Babylon , and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans ! * For the LORD spoileth Babylon , and destroyeth out of her the great voice ; and their waves roar like many waters , the noise of their voice is uttered ; * For the spoiler is come upon her , even upon Babylon , and her mighty men are taken , their bows are shattered ; for the LORD is a God of recompenses , He will surely requite . * And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men , her governors and her deputies , and her mighty men ; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep , and not wake , saith the King , whose name is the LORD of hosts . * Thus saith the 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 labour 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 quartermaster . * And Jeremiah wrote in one book all the evil that should come upon Babylon , even all these words that are written concerning Babylon . * And Jeremiah said to Seraiah : 'When thou comest to Babylon , then see that thou read all these words , * and say : O LORD , Thou hast spoken concerning this place , to cut it off , that none shall dwell therein , neither man nor beast , but that it shall be desolate for ever . * 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 the Euphrates ; * and thou shalt say : Thus shall Babylon 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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