Jeremiah:51:20-46
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You are my hammer and weapon of war :
with you I break nations in pieces ;
with you I destroy kingdoms ;
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with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider ;
with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer ;
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with you I break in pieces man and woman ;
with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth ;
with you I break in pieces the young man and the maiden ;
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with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock ;
with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team ;
with you I break in pieces governors and commanders .
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I will requite Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chalde '
a before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion ,
says the LORD .
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Behold ,
I am against you ,
O destroying mountain ,
says the LORD ,
which destroys the whole earth ;
I will stretch out my hand against you ,
and roll you down from the crags ,
and make you a burnt mountain .
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No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation ,
but you shall be a perpetual waste ,
says the LORD .
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Set up a standard on the earth ,
blow the trumpet among the nations ;
prepare the nations for war against her ,
summon against her the kingdoms ,
Ar '
arat ,
Minni ,
and Ash '
kenaz ;
appoint a marshal against her ,
bring up horses like bristling locusts .
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Prepare the nations for war against her ,
the kings of the Medes ,
with their governors and deputies ,
and every land under their dominion .
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The land trembles and writhes in pain ,
for the LORD '
s purposes against Babylon stand ,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation ,
without inhabitant .
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The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting ,
they remain in their strongholds ;
their strength has failed ,
they have become women ;
her dwellings are on fire ,
her bars are broken .
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One runner runs to meet another ,
and one messenger to meet another ,
to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side ;
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the fords have been seized ,
the bulwarks are burned with fire ,
and the soldiers are in panic .
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For thus says 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 her harvest will come ."
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Nebuchadrez '
zar the king of Babylon has devoured me ,
he has crushed me ;
he has made me an empty vessel ,
he has swallowed me like a monster ;
he has filled his belly with my delicacies ,
he has rinsed me out .
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The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon ,"
let the inhabitant of Zion say . "
My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chalde '
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let Jerusalem say .
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Therefore thus says the LORD : "
Behold ,
I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you .
I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry ;
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and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins ,
the haunt of jackals ,
a horror and a hissing ,
without inhabitant .
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They shall roar together like lions ;
they shall growl like lions '
whelps .
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While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk ,
till they swoon away and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake ,
says the LORD .
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter ,
like rams and he-goats .
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How Babylon is taken ,
the praise of the whole earth seized !
How Babylon has become a horror among the nations !
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The sea has come up on Babylon ;
she is covered with its tumultuous waves .
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Her cities have become a horror ,
a land of drought and a desert ,
a land in which no one dwells ,
and through which no son of man passes .
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And I will punish Bel in Babylon ,
and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed .
The nations shall no longer flow to him ;
the wall of Babylon has fallen .
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Go out of the midst of her ,
my people !
Let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD !
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Let not your heart faint ,
and be not fearful at the report heard in the land ,
when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year ,
and violence is in the land ,
and ruler is against ruler .
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