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chapter 51
1
Thus
saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against
Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart
against me.
2 And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall
fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side
in the day of her affliction.
3 Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not,
him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy
all her army.
4 And the slain shall fall in the land of the
Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.
5 For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their
God the Lord of hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the
Holy One of Israel.
6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one
save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of
revenge from the Lord, he will I render unto her what she hath deserved.
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the
Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and
therefore they have staggered.
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for
her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.
9 We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed:
let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her
judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.
10 The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and
let us declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.
11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon
to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his
temple.
12 Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard,
strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord
hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of
Babylon.
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in
treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.
14 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying : I
will fill thee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout
against thee.
15 He that made the earth by his power, that hath
prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his
understanding.
16 When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied
in heaven: he lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, he hath turned
lightning into rain: and hath brought forth the wind out of his treasures.
17 Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every
founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is
no breath in them.
18 They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in
the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that
made all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the
Lord of hosts is his name.
20 Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and
with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:
21 And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and
his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that
getteth up into it:
22 And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman,
and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I
will break in pieces the young man and the virgin:
23 And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd
and his dock, and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke
of oxen, and with thee I will break in pieces captains and rulers.
24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your
eyes, saith the Lord.
25 Behold I come against thee, thou destroying
mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch
out my hand upon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make
thee a burnt mountain.
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for the
corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever,
saith the Lord.
27 Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the
trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together
against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against
her, bring the horse as the stinging locust.
28 Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media,
their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.
29 And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be
troubled: for the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the
land of Babylon desert and uninhabitable.
30 The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight,
they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as
women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.
31 One running post shall meet another, and messenger
shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from
one end to the other:
32 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are
burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing:
yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he
hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up
like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath
cast me out.
35 The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon,
saith the habitation of Sion : and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,
saith Jerusalem.
36 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge
thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate,
and will dry up her spring.
37 And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling
place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no
inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions, they shall
shake their manes like young lions.
39 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make
them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no
more, saith the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
and like rams with kids.
41 How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the
earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
42 The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with
the multitude of the waves thereof.
43 Her cities are become an astonishment, a land
uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass
through it.
44 And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will
bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the rations
shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.
45 Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every
man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.
46 And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the
rumour that shall be heard in the land : and a rumour shall come in one year,
and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon
ruler.
47 Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the
idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her.
48 And the heavens and the earth, and all things that
are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from
the north, saith the Lord.
49 And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain
in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.
50 You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand
not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach:
shame hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries
of the house of the Lord.
52 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and
I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:
53 If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish
her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the
Lord.
54 The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great
destruction from the land of the Chaldeans :
55 Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and
destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many
waters: their voice hath made a noise:
56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon
Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the
Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.
57 And I will make her princes drunk. and her wise men,
and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an
everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the whose name is Lord of
hosts.
58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of
Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with
fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations
shall go to the fire, and shall perish.
59 The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias
the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to
Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the
prophecy.
60 And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was
to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.
61 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come
into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,
62 Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against
this place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to
dwell therein, and that it should be desolate for ever.
63 And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this
book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the
Euphrates:
64 And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she
shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall
be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias.
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