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JER-51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against
Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that
rise up against me, a destroying wind;
JER-51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her,
and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall
be against her round about.
JER-51:3 Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow,
and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and
spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
JER-51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.
JER-51:5 For Israel [hath] not [been] forsaken, nor Judah of his
God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin
against the Holy One of Israel.
JER-51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man
his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time
of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
JER-51:7 Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand,
that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her
wine; therefore the nations are mad.
JER-51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her;
take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
JER-51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:
forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for
her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up [even] to
the skies.
JER-51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come,
and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
JER-51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD
hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his
device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the
vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
JER-51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make
the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for
the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against
the inhabitants of Babylon.
JER-51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in
treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy
covetousness.
JER-51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying],
Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they
shall lift up a shout against thee.
JER-51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath
established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the
heaven by his understanding.
JER-51:16 When he uttereth [his] voice, [there is] a multitude
of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend
from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
JER-51:17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder
is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is]
falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
JER-51:18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of
their visitation they shall perish.
JER-51:19 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is]
the former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his
inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
JER-51:20 Thou [art] my battle ax [and] weapons of war: for with
thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I
destroy kingdoms;
JER-51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his
rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his
rider;
JER-51:22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman;
and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with
thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
JER-51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and
his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman
and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces
captains and rulers.
JER-51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the
inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in
Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
JER-51:25 Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain,
saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will
stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the
rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
JER-51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner,
nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever,
saith the LORD.
JER-51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet
among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and
Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to
come up as the rough caterpillars.
JER-51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the
Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all
the land of his dominion.
JER-51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every
purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make
the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
JER-51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they
have remained in [their] holds: their might hath failed; they
became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars
are broken.
JER-51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger
to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is
taken at [one] end,
JER-51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they
have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
JER-51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshingfloor, [it is] time
to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest
shall come.
JER-51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me,
he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath
swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out.
JER-51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon
Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the
inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
JER-51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead
thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her
sea, and make her springs dry.
JER-51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for
dragons, and astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
JER-51:38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell
as lions' whelps.
JER-51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will
make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual
sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
JER-51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he goats.
JER-51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the
whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment
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