Jeremiah:51:20-46
rsv@Jeremiah:51:20 @ "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
rsv@Jeremiah:51:21 @ with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;
rsv@Jeremiah:51:22 @ 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;
rsv@Jeremiah:51:23 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:24 @ "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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:25 @ "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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:26 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:27 @ "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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:28 @ Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:29 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:30 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:31 @ 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;
rsv@Jeremiah:51:32 @ the fords have been seized, the bulwarks are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:33 @ 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."
rsv@Jeremiah:51:34 @ "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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:35 @ 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'a," let Jerusalem say.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:36 @ 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;
rsv@Jeremiah:51:37 @ and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:38 @ "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' whelps.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:39 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:40 @ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and he-goats.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:41 @ "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
rsv@Jeremiah:51:42 @ The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:43 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:44 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:45 @ "Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every man save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!
rsv@Jeremiah:51:46 @ 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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