rsv Jeremiah:51:35-58 SEEK
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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 '
a ,"
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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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon ;
her whole land shall be put to shame ,
and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her .
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Then the heavens and the earth ,
and all that is in them ,
shall sing for joy over Babylon ;
for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north ,
says the LORD .
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Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel ,
as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth .
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You that have escaped from the sword ,
go ,
stand not still !
Remember the LORD from afar ,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind :
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We are put to shame ,
for we have heard reproach ;
dishonor has covered our face ,
for aliens have come into the holy places of the LORD '
s house .'
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Therefore ,
behold ,
the days are coming ,
says the LORD ,
when I will execute judgment upon her images ,
and through all her land the wounded shall groan .
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Though Babylon should mount up to heaven ,
and though she should fortify her strong height ,
yet destroyers would come from me upon her ,
says the LORD .
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Hark !
a cry from Babylon !
The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chalde '
ans !
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For the LORD is laying Babylon waste ,
and stilling her mighty voice .
Their waves roar like many waters ,
the noise of their voice is raised ;
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for a destroyer has come upon her ,
upon Babylon ;
her warriors are taken ,
their bows are broken in pieces ;
for the LORD is a God of recompense ,
he will surely requite .
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I will make drunk her princes and her wise men ,
her governors ,
her commanders ,
and her warriors ;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake ,
says the King ,
whose name is the LORD of hosts .
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Thus says the LORD of hosts :
The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground and her high gates shall be burned with fire .
The peoples labor for nought ,
and the nations weary themselves only for fire ."