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The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet .
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Declare among the nations ,
Proclaim ,
and set up a standard ;
Proclaim--do not conceal it --
Say , "
Babylon is taken ,
Bel is shamed .
Merodach is broken in pieces ;
Her idols are humiliated ,
Her images are broken in pieces .'
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For out of the north a nation comes up against her ,
Which shall make her land desolate ,
And no one shall dwell therein .
They shall move ,
they shall depart ,
Both man and beast .
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In those days and in that time ,"
says the LORD , "
The children of Israel shall come ,
They and the children of Judah together ;
With continual weeping they shall come ,
And seek the LORD their God .
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They shall ask the way to Zion ,
With their faces toward it ,
saying , "
Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD In a perpetual covenant That will not be forgotten .'
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My people have been lost sheep .
Their shepherds have led them astray ;
They have turned them away on the mountains .
They have gone from mountain to hill ;
They have forgotten their resting place .
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All who found them have devoured them ;
And their adversaries said , "
We have not offended ,
Because they have sinned against the LORD ,
the habitation of justice ,
The LORD ,
the hope of their fathers .'
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Move from the midst of Babylon ,
Go out of the land of the Chaldeans ;
And be like the rams before the flocks .
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For behold ,
I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country ,
And they shall array themselves against her ;
From there she shall be captured .
Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior ;
None shall return in vain .
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And Chaldea shall become plunder ;
All who plunder her shall be satisfied ,"
says the LORD .
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Because you were glad ,
because you rejoiced ,
You destroyers of My heritage ,
Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain ,
And you bellow like bulls ,
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Your mother shall be deeply ashamed ;
She who bore you shall be ashamed .
Behold ,
the least of the nations shall be a wilderness ,
A dry land and a desert .
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Because of the wrath of the LORD She shall not be inhabited ,
But she shall be wholly desolate .
Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified And hiss at all her plagues .
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Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around ,
All you who bend the bow ;
Shoot at her ,
spare no arrows ,
For she has sinned against the LORD .
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Shout against her all around ;
She has given her hand ,
Her foundations have fallen ,
Her walls are thrown down ;
For it is the vengeance of the LORD .
Take vengeance on her .
As she has done ,
so do to her .
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Cut off the sower from Babylon ,
And him who handles the sickle at harvest time .
For fear of the oppressing sword Everyone shall turn to his own people ,
And everyone shall flee to his own land .
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Israel is like scattered sheep ;
The lions have driven him away .
First the king of Assyria devoured him ;
Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones ."
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Therefore thus says 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 .
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But I will bring back Israel to his home ,
And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan ;
His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead .
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In those days and in that time ,"
says the LORD , "
The iniquity of Israel shall be sought ,
but there shall be none ;
And the sins of Judah ,
but they shall not be found ;
For I will pardon those whom I preserve .
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Go up against the land of Merathaim ,
against it ,
And against the inhabitants of Pekod .
Waste and utterly destroy them ,"
says the LORD , "
And do according to all that I have commanded you .
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A sound of battle is in the land ,
And of great destruction .
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How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken !
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations !
I have laid a snare for you ;
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You have indeed been trapped ,
O Babylon ,
And you were not aware ;
You have been found and also caught ,
Because you have contended against the LORD .
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The LORD has opened His armory ,
And has brought out the weapons of His indignation ;
For this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts In the land of the Chaldeans .
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Come against her from the farthest border ;
Open her storehouses ;
Cast her up as heaps of ruins ,
And destroy her utterly ;
Let nothing of her be left .
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Slay all her bulls ,
Let them go down to the slaughter .
Woe to them !
For their day has come ,
the time of their punishment .
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The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God ,
The vengeance of His temple .
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Call together the archers against Babylon .
All you who bend the bow ,
encamp against it all around ;
Let none of them escape .
Repay her according to her work ;
According to all she has done ,
do to her ;
For she has been proud against the LORD ,
Against the Holy One of Israel .
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Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets ,
And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day ,"
says the LORD .
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Behold ,
I am against you ,
O most haughty one !"
says the Lord GOD of hosts ; "
For your day has come ,
The time that I will punish you .
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The most proud shall stumble and fall ,
And no one will raise him up ;
I will kindle a fire in his cities ,
And it will devour all around him ."
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Thus says the LORD of hosts : "
The children of Israel were oppressed ,
Along with the children of Judah ;
All who took them captive have held them fast ;
They have refused to let them go .
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Their Redeemer is strong ;
The LORD of hosts is His name .
He will thoroughly plead their case ,
That He may give rest to the land ,
And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon .
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A sword is against the Chaldeans ,"
says the LORD , "
Against the inhabitants of Babylon ,
And against her princes and her wise men .
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A sword is against the soothsayers ,
and they will be fools .
A sword is against her mighty men ,
and they will be dismayed .
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A sword is against their horses ,
Against their chariots ,
And against all the mixed peoples who are in her midst ;
And they will become like women .
A sword is against her treasures ,
and they will be robbed .
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A drought is against her waters ,
and they will be dried up .
For it is the land of carved images ,
And they are insane with their idols .
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Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals ,
And the ostriches shall dwell in it .
It shall be inhabited no more forever ,
Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation .
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As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors ,"
says the LORD , "
So no one shall reside there ,
Nor son of man dwell in it .
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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 .
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They shall hold the bow and the lance ;
They are cruel and shall not show mercy .
Their voice shall roar like the sea ;
They shall ride on horses ,
Set in array ,
like a man for the battle ,
Against you ,
O daughter of Babylon .
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The king of Babylon has heard the report about them ,
And his hands grow feeble ;
Anguish has taken hold of him ,
Pangs as of a woman in childbirth .
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Behold ,
he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong ;
But I will make them suddenly run away from her .
And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her ?
For who is like Me ?
Who will arraign Me ?
And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me ?"
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Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon ,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans :
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out ;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them .
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At the noise of the taking of Babylon The earth trembles ,
And the cry is heard among the nations .
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Thus says the LORD : "
Behold ,
I will raise up against Babylon ,
Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai ,
A destroying wind .
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And I will send winnowers to Babylon ,
Who shall winnow her and empty her land .
For in the day of doom They shall be against her all around .
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Against her let the archer bend his bow ,
And lift himself up against her in his armor .
Do not spare her young men ;
Utterly destroy all her army .
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Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans ,
And those thrust through in her streets .
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For Israel is not forsaken ,
nor Judah ,
By his God ,
the LORD of hosts ,
Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel ."
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Flee from the midst of Babylon ,
And every one save his life !
Do not be cut off in her iniquity ,
For this is the time of the LORD '
s vengeance ;
He shall recompense her .
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Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD '
s hand ,
That made all the earth drunk .
The nations drank her wine ;
Therefore the nations are deranged .
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Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed .
Wail for her !
Take balm for her pain ;
Perhaps she may be healed .
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We would have healed Babylon ,
But she is not healed .
Forsake her ,
and let us go everyone to his own country ;
For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies .
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The LORD has revealed our righteousness .
Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God .
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Make the arrows bright !
Gather the shields !
The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes .
For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it ,
Because it is the vengeance of the LORD ,
The vengeance for His temple .
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Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon ;
Make the guard strong ,
Set up the watchmen ,
Prepare the ambushes .
For the LORD has both devised and done What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon .
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O you who dwell by many waters ,
Abundant in treasures ,
Your end has come ,
The measure of your covetousness .
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The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself : "
Surely I will fill you with men ,
as with locusts ,
And they shall lift up a shout against you ."
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He has made the earth by His power ;
He has established the world by His wisdom ,
And stretched out the heaven by His understanding .
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When He utters His voice --
There is a multitude of waters in the heavens : "
He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth ;
He makes lightnings for the rain ;
He brings the wind out of His treasuries ."
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Everyone is dull-hearted ,
without knowledge ;
Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image ;
For his molded image is falsehood ,
And there is no breath in them .
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They are futile ,
a work of errors ;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish .
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The Portion of Jacob is not like them ,
For He is the Maker of all things ;
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance .
The LORD of hosts is His name .
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You are My battle-ax and weapons of war :
For with you I will break the nation in pieces ;
With you I will destroy kingdoms ;
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With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider ;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider ;
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With you also I will break in pieces man and woman ;
With you I will break in pieces old and young ;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden ;
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With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock ;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen ;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers .
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And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight ,"
says the LORD .
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Behold ,
I am against you ,
O destroying mountain ,
Who destroys all the earth ,"
says the LORD . "
And I will stretch out My hand against you ,
Roll you down from the rocks ,
And make you a burnt mountain .
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They shall not take from you a stone for a corner Nor a stone for a foundation ,
But you shall be desolate forever ,"
says the LORD .
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Set up a banner in the land ,
Blow the trumpet among the nations !
Prepare the nations against her ,
Call the kingdoms together against her :
Ararat ,
Minni ,
and Ashkenaz .
Appoint a general against her ;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts .
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Prepare against her the nations ,
With the kings of the Medes ,
Its governors and all its rulers ,
All the land of his dominion .
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And the land will tremble and sorrow ;
For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon ,
To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant .
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The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting ,
They have remained in their strongholds ;
Their might has failed ,
They became like women ;
They have burned her dwelling places ,
The bars of her gate are broken .
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One runner will run to meet another ,
And one messenger to meet another ,
To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides ;
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The passages are blocked ,
The reeds they have burned with fire ,
And the men of war are terrified .
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For thus says the LORD of hosts ,
the God of Israel : "
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh her ;
Yet a little while And the time of her harvest will come ."
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Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon Has devoured me ,
he has crushed me ;
He has made me an empty vessel ,
He has swallowed me up like a monster ;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies ,
He has spit me out .
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Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon ,"
The inhabitant of Zion will say ; "
And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea !"
Jerusalem will say .
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Therefore thus says the LORD : "
Behold ,
I will plead your case and take vengeance for you .
I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry .
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Babylon shall become a heap ,
A dwelling place for jackals ,
An astonishment and a hissing ,
Without an inhabitant .
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They shall roar together like lions ,
They shall growl like lions '
whelps .
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In their excitement I will prepare their feasts ;
I will make them drunk ,
That they may rejoice ,
And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake ,"
says the LORD .
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I will bring them down Like lambs to the slaughter ,
Like rams with male goats .
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Oh ,
how Sheshach is taken !
Oh ,
how the praise of the whole earth is seized !
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations !
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The sea has come up over Babylon ;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves .
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Her cities are a desolation ,
A dry land and a wilderness ,
A land where no one dwells ,
Through which no son of man passes .
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I will punish Bel in Babylon ,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed ;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore .
Yes ,
the wall of Babylon shall fall .
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My people ,
go out of the midst of her !
And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the LORD .
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And lest your heart faint ,
And you fear for the rumor that will be heard in the land (
A rumor will come one year ,
And after that ,
in another year A rumor will come ,
And violence in the land ,
Ruler against ruler ),
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Therefore behold ,
the days are coming That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon ;
Her whole land shall be ashamed ,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst .
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Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them Shall sing joyously over Babylon ;
For the plunderers shall come to her from the north ,"
says the LORD .
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As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall ,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall .
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You who have escaped the sword ,
Get away !
Do not stand still !
Remember the LORD afar off ,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind .
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We are ashamed because we have heard reproach .
Shame has covered our faces ,
For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD '
s house .
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Therefore behold ,
the days are coming ,"
says the LORD , "
That I will bring judgment on her carved images ,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan .
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Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven ,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength ,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her ,"
says the LORD .
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The sound of a cry comes from Babylon ,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans ,
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Because the LORD is plundering Babylon And silencing her loud voice ,
Though her waves roar like great waters ,
And the noise of their voice is uttered ,
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Because the plunderer comes against her ,
against Babylon ,
And her mighty men are taken .
Every one of their bows is broken ;
For the LORD is the God of recompense ,
He will surely repay .
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And I will make drunk Her princes and wise men ,
Her governors ,
her deputies ,
and her mighty men .
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake ,"
says the King ,
Whose name is the LORD of hosts .
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Thus says the LORD of hosts : "
The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken ,
And her high gates shall be burned with fire ;
The people will labor in vain ,
And the nations ,
because of the fire ;
And they shall be weary ."
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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 .
And Seraiah was the quartermaster .
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So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon ,
all these words that are written against Babylon .
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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah , "
When you arrive in Babylon and see it ,
and read all these words ,
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then you shall say , "
O LORD ,
You have spoken against this place to cut it off ,
so that none shall remain in it ,
neither man nor beast ,
but it shall be desolate forever .'
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Now it shall be ,
when you have finished reading this book ,
that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates .
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Then you shall say , "
Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her .
And they shall be weary ."'
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah .
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Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king ,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah .
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He also did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
according to all that Jehoiakim had done .
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For because of the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusalem and Judah ,
till He finally cast them out from His presence .
Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon .
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Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign ,
in the tenth month ,
on the tenth day of the month ,
that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it ;
and they built a siege wall against it all around .
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So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah .
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By the fourth month ,
on the ninth day of the month ,
the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land .
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Then the city wall was broken through ,
and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls ,
which was by the king '
s garden ,
even though the Chaldeans were near the city all around .
And they went by way of the plain .
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But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king ,
and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho .
All his army was scattered from him .
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So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath ,
and he pronounced judgment on him .
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Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes .
And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah .
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He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah ;
and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters ,
took him to Babylon ,
and put him in prison till the day of his death .
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Now in the fifth month ,
on the tenth day of the month (
which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ),
Nebuzaradan ,
the captain of the guard ,
who served the king of Babylon ,
came to Jerusalem .
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He burned the house of the LORD and the king '
s house ;
all the houses of Jerusalem ,
that is ,
all the houses of the great ,
he burned with fire .
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And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around .
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Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poor people ,
the rest of the people who remained in the city ,
the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon ,
and the rest of the craftsmen .
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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers .
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The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD ,
and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD ,
the Chaldeans broke in pieces ,
and carried all their bronze to Babylon .
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They also took away the pots ,
the shovels ,
the trimmers ,
the bowls ,
the spoons ,
and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered .
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The basins ,
the firepans ,
the bowls ,
the pots ,
the lampstands ,
the spoons ,
and the cups ,
whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver ,
the captain of the guard took away .
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The two pillars ,
one Sea ,
the twelve bronze bulls which were under it ,
and the carts ,
which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD--the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure .
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Now concerning the pillars :
the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits ,
a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference ,
and its thickness was four fingers ;
it was hollow .
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A capital of bronze was on it ;
and the height of one capital was five cubits ,
with a network and pomegranates all around the capital ,
all of bronze .
The second pillar ,
with pomegranates was the same .
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There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides ;
all the pomegranates ,
all around on the network ,
were one hundred .
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The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest ,
Zephaniah the second priest ,
and the three doorkeepers .
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He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war ,
seven men of the king '
s close associates who were found in the city ,
the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land ,
and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city .
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And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah .
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Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath .
Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land .
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These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive :
in the seventh year ,
three thousand and twenty-three Jews ;
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in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons ;
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in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar ,
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons .
All the persons were four thousand six hundred .
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Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah ,
in the twelfth month ,
on the twenty-fifth day of the month ,
that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon ,
in the first year of his reign ,
lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison .
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And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon .
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So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments ,
and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life .
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And as for his provisions ,
there was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon ,
a portion for each day until the day of his death ,
all the days of his life .
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in the first year of his reign I ,
Daniel ,
understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet ,
that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem .
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Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet ,
saying :
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So they said , "
Some say John the Baptist ,
some Elijah ,
and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets ."
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Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet ,
saying , "
And they took the thirty pieces of silver ,
the value of Him who was priced ,
whom they of the children of Israel priced ,