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chapter 50
1
The
word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon, and against the land of the
Chaldeans in the hand of Jeremias the prophet.
2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up
a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is
confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their
idols are overthrown.
3 For a nation is come up against her out of the north,
which shall make her land desolate: and there shall be none to dwell therein,
from man even to beast:: yea they are removed, and gone away.
4 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the
children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going
and weeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are
hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting
covenant, which shall never be forgotten.
6 My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds
have caused them to go astray, and have made them wander in the mountains: they
have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
7 All that found them, have devoured them: and their
enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against
the Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers.
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out
of the land of the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the head of the flock.
9 For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the land of the north: and they shall be
prepared against her, and from thence she shall be taken: their arrows, like
those of a mighty man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.
10 And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her
shall be filled, saith the Lord.
11 Because you rejoice, and speak great things,
pillaging my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the
grass, and have bellowed as bulls.
12 Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that
bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the
nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry.
13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be
inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass by Babylon,
shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
14 Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all
you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not arrows: because she hath
sinned against the Lord.
15 Shout against her, she hath every where given her
hand, her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the
vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do to her.
16 Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that
holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove
every man shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
17 Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven
him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
18 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of
Israel: Behold I will visit the king of Babylon and his land, as I have visited
the king of Assyria.
19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and
he shall feed on Carmel, and Bason, and his soul shall be satisfied in mount
Ephraim, and Galaad.
20 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the
iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of
Juda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them, whom I
shall leave.
21 Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the
inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do
according to all that I have commanded thee.
22 A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and
destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!
24 I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou
art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught,
because thou hast provoked the Lord.
25 The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought
forth the weapons of his wrath : for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to
be done in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open
that they may go forth that shall tread her down: take the stones out of the
way, and make heaps, and destroy her: and let nothing of her be left.
27 Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the
slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
28 The voice of them that flee, and of them that have
escaped out of the land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge of the Lord
our God, the revenge of his temple.
29 Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend
the bow: stand together against her round about, and let nose escape; pay her
according to her work: according to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for
she hath lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets:
and all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day, saith the Lord.
31 Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the
Lord the God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy visitation.
32 And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down,
and there shall be none to lift him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of
Israel, and the children of Juda are oppressed together: all that have taken
them captives, hold them fast, they will not let them go.
34 Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his
name : he will defend their cause in judgment, to terrify the land, and to
disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and
upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be
foolish: a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots,
and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as
women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.
38 A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried
up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.
39 Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig
fauns: and ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inhabited for
ever, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation.
40 As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their
neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the
son of man inhabit it.
41 Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great
nation, and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.
42 They shall take the bow and the shield: they are
cruel and unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride
upon horses: like a man prepared for battle against thee, O daughter of
Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them,
and his hands are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, pangs as a,
woman in labour.
44 Behold he shall come up like a lion from the
swelling of the Jordan to the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run
suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her?
for who is like to me? and who shall bear up against me? and who is that
shepherd that can withstand my countenance?
45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he
hath taken against Babylon: and his thoughts which he hath thought against the
land of the Chaldeans: surely the little ones of the flocks shall pull them
down, of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with them.
46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is
moved, and the cry is heard amongst the nations.
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