rwbs - Jeremiah:51-52

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)

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:2 @ And he did evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:3 @ For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:4 @ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it, and built forts against it on every side.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:5 @ So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:6 @ And in the fourth month, in the ninth of the month, the famine was great in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:7 @ Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans by the city on all sides:) and they went by the way of the plain.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:8 @ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:9 @ Then they took the king, and carried him to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:10 @ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:11 @ Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. (note:)put out: Hebrews. blinded(:note)chains: or, fettersprison: Heb. house of the wards

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:12 @ Now in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month, which the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, (note:)captain…: or, chief marshal: Hebrews. chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen(:note)served: Heb. stood before

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:13 @ And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great, he burned with fire:

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:14 @ And all the army of the Chaldeans, that with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem on every side.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:15 @ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:16 @ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:17 @ Also the pillars of brass that in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:18 @ The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass by which they ministered, they took away. (note:)shovels: or, instruments to remove the ashes(:note)bowls: or, basons

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:19 @ And the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the cups; which of gold gold, and which of silver silver, the captain of the guard took away. (note:)firepans: or, censers(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:20 @ The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. (note:)the brass: Hebrews. their brass(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:21 @ And the pillars, the height of one pillar eighteen cubits; and a band of twelve cubits surrounded it; and the thickness of it four fingers: hollow. (note:)fillet: Hebrews. thread(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:22 @ And a capital of brass upon it; and the height of one capital five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capitals around, all brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates like these.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:23 @ And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; all the pomegranates upon the network an hundred on all sides.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:24 @ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: (note:)door: Hebrews. threshold(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:25 @ He took also out of the city an eunuch, who had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king’s person, who were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. (note:)were near…: Hebrews. saw the face of the king(:note)principal…: or, scribe of the captain of the host

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:26 @ So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:27 @ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:28 @ This the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:29 @ In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty and two persons: (note:)persons: Hebrews. souls(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:30 @ In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty and five persons: all the persons four thousand and six hundred.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:31 @ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:32 @ And spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that with him in Babylon, (note:)kindly…: Hebrews. good things with him(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:33 @ And changed his prison garments: and he continually ate bread before him all the days of his life.

rwbs@Jeremiah:52:34 @ And his food, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. (note:)every…: Hebrews. the matter of the day in his day(:note)

rwbs@Daniel:9:2 @ In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, concerning which the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

rwbs@Matthew:2:17 @ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

rwbs@Matthew:16:14 @ And they said, Some John the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

rwbs@Matthew:27:9 @ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; (note:)whom…: or, whom they bought of the children of Israel(:note)