rsv Jeremiah:51:35-58
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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:47 @ "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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:48 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:49 @ Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:50 @ "You that have escaped from the sword, go, stand not still! Remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:
rsv@Jeremiah:51:51 @ `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.'
rsv@Jeremiah:51:52 @ "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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:53 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:54 @ "Hark! a cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chalde'ans!
rsv@Jeremiah:51:55 @ 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;
rsv@Jeremiah:51:56 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:57 @ 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.
rsv@Jeremiah:51:58 @ "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."
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