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Jer. 51 :1 51:1 Thus says Jehovah,
I will stir up against Babylon and against the inhabitants of ¹Leb-kamai
A destroying wind.

Jer. 51 :2 51:2 And I will send ¹strangers against Babylon, and they will winnow her,
And they will empty her land
When they come against her from every side
In the evil day.

Jer. 51 :3 51:3 Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow,
And against him who stands up in his armor;
And let them not spare her young men,
But let them utterly destroy all her army.

Jer. 51 :4 51:4 And they will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans
And pierced through in her streets.

Jer. 51 :5 51:5 For neither Israel nor Judah is forsaken
By his God, by Jehovah of hosts;
But ¹their land is full of guilt
Against the Holy One of Israel.

Jer. 51 :6 51:6 ^1aFlee from the midst of Babylon,
And let each man save his life;
Do not be cut off in her iniquity;
For this is a time of vengeance to Jehovah;
He will give full recompense to her.

Jer. 51 :7 51:7 Babylon has been a golden ^acup in Jehovah’s hand
That has made all the earth drunk.
The nations have drunk of her ^bwine;
Therefore the nations have become mad.

Jer. 51 :8 51:8 Suddenly Babylon has ^afallen and become broken;
Howl over her;
Take balm for her pain, If perhaps she may be healed.

Jer. 51 :9 51:9 We tried to heal Babylon, but she is not healed;
^aForsake her, and let each one of us go to his own land;
For her judgment has reached to ^bheaven
And has been lifted up to the clouds.

Jer. 51 :10 51:10 Jehovah has brought forth our ^arighteousnesses;
Come and let us ^brelate in Zion
The work of Jehovah our God.

Jer. 51 :11 51:11 Polish the arrows,
Take up the shields.
Jehovah has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the ^aMedes, because His purpose is against Babylon, to destroy her; for this is the ¹vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance for His temple.

Jer. 51 :12 51:12 Lift up a standard against the walls of Babylon;
Make the watch strong.
Set the watchmen;
Prepare the ambushers;
For Jehovah has both purposed and done
What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jer. 51 :13 51:13 O you who dwell by many ^awaters,
Abundant in treasures,
Your end has come,
The measure of your unjust gain.

Jer. 51 :14 51:14 Jehovah of hosts has sworn by Himself,
I will surely fill you with men like ^alocusts,
And they will raise a shout of victory over you.

Jer. 51 :15 51:15 ^aIt is He who made the earth by His power,
Who established the world by His wisdom,
And by His understanding He ^bstretched out the heavens.

Jer. 51 :16 51:16 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
^aAnd He causes the vapors to rise from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain
And brings forth wind from His treasuries.

Jer. 51 :17 51:17 Every man is stupid, without knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idol;
For his molten image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them.

Jer. 51 :18 51:18 They are ^avanity, the work of delusion;
At the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jer. 51 :19 51:19 The ^aPortion of Jacob is not like these;
For He is the One who formed everything,
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;
Jehovah of hosts is His name.

Jer. 51 :20 51:20 He says, You are My ^ahammer,
My weapons of war;
And with you I will shatter nations,
And with you I will destroy kingdoms

Jer. 51 :21 51:21 And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider,
And with you I will shatter the chariot and its rider,

Jer. 51 :22 51:22 And with you I will shatter man and woman,
And with you I will shatter old man and young,
And with you I will shatter young man and virgin,

Jer. 51 :23 51:23 And with you I will shatter the shepherd and his flock,
And with you I will shatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen,
And with you I will shatter governors and officials.

Jer. 51 :24 51:24 And I will ^arepay Babylon
And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
With all their evil which they have done
In Zion before your eyes, declares Jehovah.

Jer. 51 :25 51:25 Indeed, I am against you, O mountain of destruction,
Declares Jehovah,
Which destroys the whole earth;
And I will stretch out My hand upon you
And roll you down from the rocks
And make you a burning mountain.

Jer. 51 :26 51:26 And they will not take from you a stone for the corner
Or a stone for the foundations;
For you will be an eternal ^adesolation, declares Jehovah.

Jer. 51 :27 51:27 Lift up a standard in the land;
Blow a trumpet among the nations;
Prepare the nations against her;
Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
Appoint an officer against her;
Bring up the horses like terrifying locusts.

Jer. 51 :28 51:28 Prepare the nations against her,
The kings of the ^aMedes,
¹Their governors and all ¹their officials,
And all the land of ²their dominion.

Jer. 51 :29 51:29 And the land trembles and writhes,
For the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon stand,
To make the land of Babylon a waste,
^aWithout inhabitant.

Jer. 51 :30 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;
They remain in strongholds;
Their might has failed; they have become like women.
Her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.

Jer. 51 :31 51:31 Runner runs to meet runner,
And messenger to meet messenger,
To announce to the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end.

Jer. 51 :32 51:32 And the crossing places have been seized,
And they burn the marshes with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.

Jer. 51 :33 51:33 For thus says Jehovah 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 harvest will come to her.

Jer. 51 :34 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;
He has crushed me;
He has made me an empty vessel;
He has swallowed me up like a dragon;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
He has washed me out.

Jer. 51 :35 51:35 The violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon!
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!
Jerusalem will say.

Jer. 51 :36 51:36 Therefore thus says Jehovah,
I will indeed plead your cause
And execute vengeance for you;
And I will dry up her sea
And make her fountain dry.

Jer. 51 :37 51:37 And Babylon will become a heap of ruins,
A ^ahabitation of jackals,
An astonishment and a hissing,
Without inhabitant.

Jer. 51 :38 51:38 They will roar together like young lions;
They will growl like lions’ whelps.

Jer. 51 :39 51:39 When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink;
And I will make them drunk, that they may be merry
And sleep an eternal sleep
And not wake up, declares Jehovah.

Jer. 51 :40 51:40 And I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.

Jer. 51 :41 51:41 How Sheshach has been captured,
And the praise of all the earth seized!
How Babylon has become an astonishment
Among the nations!

Jer. 51 :42 51:42 The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.

Jer. 51 :43 51:43 Her cities have become a waste,
A dry land and a desert,
A land in which no one dwells,
Through which no person passes.

Jer. 51 :44 51:44 And I will punish ¹Bel in Babylon
And bring what he has swallowed out of his mouth;
And the nations will not stream unto him any longer;
Even the wall of Babylon will fall down.

Jer. 51 :45 51:45 ^1aCome out from the midst of her, My people,
And let each man save his life
From the burning anger of Jehovah.

Jer. 51 :46 51:46 And lest your heart faint
And you become afraid at the report that will be heard in the land —
For the report will come in one year;
And after that a report in another year
And violence in the earth,
Ruler against ruler —

Jer. 51 :47 51:47 Therefore indeed, days are coming,
When I will punish the idols of Babylon;
And her whole land will be put to shame,
And all her slain will fall in her midst.

Jer. 51 :48 51:48 And the heavens and the earth and all which is in them
Will give a ^aringing shout over Babylon;
For out of the north the destroyers will come against her,
Declares Jehovah.

Jer. 51 :49 51:49 Babylon is also to fall for the slain of Israel,
As all the slain of the earth have fallen for Babylon.

Jer. 51 :50 51:50 You who have escaped the sword,
Go and do not stand still;
Remember Jehovah from afar,
And let ^aJerusalem come up in your heart.

Jer. 51 :51 51:51 We have been put to shame, for we have heard reproach;
Disgrace has covered our faces;
For strangers have come
Into the holy places of the house of Jehovah.

Jer. 51 :52 51:52 Therefore indeed, days are coming,
Declares Jehovah,
When I will punish her idols,
And throughout her land the wounded will groan.

Jer. 51 :53 51:53 Though Babylon mount up to the ^aheavens,
And though she fortify the height of her strength,
Destroyers will come from Me to her,
Declares Jehovah.

Jer. 51 :54 51:54 The sound of a cry from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

Jer. 51 :55 51:55 For Jehovah is destroying Babylon,
And He will cause the loud voice to perish from her.
And ¹their waves roar like many waters;
The noise of their voice is raised.

Jer. 51 :56 51:56 For a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon,
And her mighty men are taken captive;
Their bows are broken into pieces;
For Jehovah is a ^aGod of recompense;
He will repay in full.

Jer. 51 :57 51:57 And I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors and her officials and her mighty men;
And they will sleep an eternal sleep
And not wake up, declares the King,
Whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

Jer. 51 :58 51:58 Thus says Jehovah of hosts,
The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly laid bare;
Her high gates will be burned with fire.
So the peoples will have labored in vain;
And the nations, only for fire; and they will have wearied themselves.

Jer. 51 :59 51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with ^aZedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)

Jer. 51 :60 51:60 And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

Jer. 51 :61 51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words;

Jer. 51 :62 51:62 And say, O Jehovah, You have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, so that nothing should dwell in it, neither man nor animal, for it will be an eternal desolation.

Jer. 51 :63 51:63 And as soon as you have finished reading this book, you shall bind a ^astone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,

Jer. 51 :64 51:64 And say, Thus Babylon will sink and will not rise up because of the evil which I will bring upon it, and they will weary themselves. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.