nkjv Jeremiah:51:12-31
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:12 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:13 @ O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your covetousness.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:14 @ 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."
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:15 @ He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, And stretched out the heaven by His understanding.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:16 @ 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."
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:17 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:18 @ They are futile, a work of errors; In the time of their punishment they shall perish.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:19 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:20 @ "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;
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:21 @ With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:22 @ 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;
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:23 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:24 @ "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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:25 @ "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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:26 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:27 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:28 @ Prepare against her the nations, With the kings of the Medes, Its governors and all its rulers, All the land of his dominion.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:29 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:30 @ 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.
nkjv@Jeremiah:51:31 @ 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;