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1 Thus says the Lord:
See! I rouse against Babylon,
and the inhabitants of Chaldea,
a destroyer wind.[a]
2 To Babylon I will send winnowers
to winnow and lay waste the land;
They shall besiege it on every side
on the day of affliction.(A)
3 How can the archers draw back their bows,
lift their armor?
Do not spare her young men,
put the entire army under the ban.(B)
4 The slain shall fall in the land of Chaldea,
the wounded, in its streets;(C)
5 For Israel and Judah are not left widowed
by their God, the Lord of hosts,
Even though the land is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel.
6 Flee from Babylon;
each of you save your own life,
do not perish because of her guilt;
This is a time of retribution from the Lord,
7 who pays out her due.(D)
Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord
making the whole earth drunk;
The nations drank its wine,
thus they have gone mad.(E)
8 Babylon suddenly falls and is broken:
wail over her!
Bring balm for her wounds,
in case she can be healed.(F)
9 “We have tried to heal Babylon,
but she cannot be healed.
Leave her, each of us must go to our own land.”
The judgment against her reaches the heavens,
it touches the clouds.(G)
10 The Lord has brought forth our vindication;
come, let us tell in Zion
what the Lord, our God, has done.(H)
11 Sharpen the arrows,
fill the quivers;
The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,[b]
for his resolve is Babylon’s destruction.
Yes, it is retribution from the Lord,
retribution for his temple.(I)
12 Over the walls of Babylon raise a signal,
reinforce the watch;
Post sentries,
arrange ambushes!
For the Lord has both planned and carried out
what he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 You who dwell by mighty waters,
rich in treasure,
Your end has come,
the time at which you shall be cut off!(J)
14 The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself:
I will fill you with people as numerous as locusts,
who shall raise over you a joyous shout!
15 He made the earth by his power,
established the world by wisdom,
and by his skill stretched out the heavens.(K)
16 When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar,
he summons clouds from the ends of the earth,
Makes lightning flash in the rain,
and brings out winds from their storehouses.
17 Every man is stupid, ignorant;
every artisan is put to shame by his idol:
He molds a fraud,
without life-breath.
18 They are nothing, a ridiculous work,
that will perish at the time of punishment.
19 Jacob’s portion is nothing like them:
he is the creator of all things.
Israel is his very own tribe;
Lord of hosts is his name.
20 You are my hammer,
a weapon for war;
With you I shatter nations,
with you I destroy kingdoms.
21 With you I shatter horse and rider,
with you I shatter chariot and driver.(L)
22 With you I shatter man and woman,
with you I shatter old and young,
with you I shatter the young man and young woman.(M)
23 With you I shatter shepherd and flock,
with you I shatter farmer and team,
with you I shatter governors and officers.
24 Thus I will repay Babylon,
all the inhabitants of Chaldea,
For all the evil they committed against Zion,
before your very eyes—oracle of the Lord.(N)
25 Beware! I am against you,
destroying mountain—oracle of the Lord—
destroyer of the entire earth,
I will stretch forth my hand against you,
roll you down over the cliffs,
and make you a burnt mountain:(O)
26 They will not take from you a cornerstone,
or a foundation stone;
You shall remain ruins forever—
oracle of the Lord.(P)
27 Raise a signal in the land,
sound the trumpet among the nations;
Dedicate nations for war against her,
summon against her the kingdoms:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;[c]
Appoint a recruiting officer against her,
dispatch horses like bristling locusts.(Q)
28 Dedicate nations for war against her:
the king of the Medes,
Its governors and all its officers,
every land in its domain.
29 The earth quakes and writhes,
the Lord’s plan against Babylon is carried out,
Turning the land of Babylon
into a wasteland without inhabitants.
30 Babylon’s warriors have ceased to fight,
they remain in their strongholds;
Dried up is their strength,
they have become women.
Burned down are their homes,
broken their gates.
31 One runner meets another,
herald meets herald,
Telling the king of Babylon
that his entire city has been taken.(R)
32 The fords have been seized,
marshes set on fire,
warriors panic.
33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor
at the time of treading;
Yet a little while,
and the harvest time will come for her.(S)
34 “He consumed me, defeated me,
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon;
he left me like an empty vessel,
Swallowed me like a sea monster,
filled his belly with my delicacies and cast me out.
35 Let my torn flesh be visited upon Babylon,”
says enthroned Zion;
“My blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
says Jerusalem.
36 But now, thus says the Lord:
I will certainly defend your cause,
I will certainly avenge you;
I will dry up her sea,
and drain her fountain.
37 Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,
a haunt of jackals;
A place of horror and hissing,
without inhabitants.(T)
38 They roar like lions,
growl like lion cubs.(U)
39 When they are parched, I will set drink before them
to make them drunk, that they may be overcome
with everlasting sleep, never to awaken—
oracle of the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter,
like rams and goats.
41 How she has been seized, taken captive,
the glory of the whole world!
What a horror Babylon has become among the nations:(V)
42 against Babylon the sea rises,
she is overwhelmed by roaring waves!
43 Her cities have become wasteland,
a parched and arid land
Where no one lives,
no one passes through.
44 I will punish Bel in Babylon,
and make him vomit up what he swallowed;
nations shall no longer stream to him.
Even the wall of Babylon falls!
45 Leave her, my people; each of you save your own life
from the burning wrath of the Lord.
46 Do not be discouraged when rumors spread through the land; this year one rumor comes, next year another: “Violence in the land!” or “Ruler against ruler!”(W) 47 Realize that the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon; the whole land shall be put to shame, all her slain shall fall in her midst. 48 Then heaven and earth and everything in them shall shout over Babylon with joy, when the destroyers come against her from the north—oracle of the Lord.(X) 49 Babylon, too, must fall, you slain of Israel, because by the hand of Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.
50 You who have escaped the sword,
go, do not stand idle;
Remember the Lord from far away,
let Jerusalem come to mind.
51 We are ashamed because we have heard taunts,
disgrace covers our faces;
strangers have entered sanctuaries in the Lord’s house.(Y)
52 Therefore see, the days are coming—oracle of the Lord—
when I will punish her idols,
and throughout the land the wounded will groan.
53 Though Babylon scale the heavens,
and make her strong heights inaccessible,
my destroyers shall reach her—oracle of the Lord.(Z)
54 A sound of crying from Babylon,
great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;
55 For the Lord lays Babylon waste,
silences her loud cry,
Waves roaring like mighty waters,
a clamor resounding.
56 For the destroyer comes upon her, upon Babylon;
warriors are captured, their bows broken;
The Lord is a God of recompense,
he will surely repay.(AA)
57 I will make her princes and sages drunk, with her governors, officers, and warriors, so that they sleep an everlasting sleep, never to awaken—oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.
58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The walls of spacious Babylon shall be leveled to the ground,
its lofty gates destroyed by fire.
The toil of the peoples is for nothing;
the nations weary themselves for what the flames consume.(AB)
The Prophecy Sent to Babylon. 59 The mission Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah,[d] son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year of his reign; Seraiah was chief quartermaster. 60 Jeremiah wrote down on one scroll the disaster that would befall Babylon;[e] all these words were written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you reach Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,(AC) 62 and then say: Lord, you yourself spoke against this place in order to cut it down so that nothing, human being or beast, could live in it, because it is to remain a wasteland forever. 63 When you have finished reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates,(AD) 64 and say: Thus Babylon shall sink. It will never rise, because of the disaster I am bringing upon it.” Thus far the words of Jeremiah.
51 Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up against Babylon, And the inhabitants of Leb -- My withstanders, A destroying wind, 2 And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about -- in the day of evil. 3 Let not the treade...
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51 The Lord saith these things, Lo! I shall raise on Babylon, and on the dwellers thereof, that raised their heart against me, as a wind of pestilence. (The Lord saith these things, Lo! I shall raise up a wind of pestilence against Babylon, and against its inhabitants, who raised up their hearts aga...
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51 Yahweh says:“Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.3 Against him who bends, let the archer...
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51 The Eternal has this to say regarding Babylon:Eternal One: Watch as I stir up a destroying wind against Babylon and the people of Chaldea.[a]2 I will send outsiders to sift through this nation, separating the wheat from the chaff, laying waste this land. They will fight her from every side on th...
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Apocalyptic Vengeance51 Thus says Adonai:“Look!Stirring up against Babylon and those living in Leb-kamai,a spirit of destruction.2 I will send strangers to Babylonto scatter her and empty her land.For in the day of troublethey will be against her all around.3 Let the archer bend his bow at her.Let h...
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51 Thus says the Lord:“Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Chalde′a;[a]2 and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her,and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.3 Let not ...
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51 Thus says the Lord:“Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Chalde′a;[a]2 and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her,and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.3 Let not ...
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51 Thus says the Lord:I am going to stir up a destructive wind[a]against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai;[b]2 and I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they shall winnow her.They shall empty her land when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.3 Let not the arch...
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51 Thus says the Lord:I am going to stir up a destructive wind[a] against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai;[b]2 and I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they shall winnow her.They shall empty her land when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.3 Let not the arc...
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51 Thus says the Lord:I am going to stir up a destructive wind[a] against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai;[b]2 and I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they shall winnow her.They shall empty her land when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.3 Let not the arc...
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51 Thus says the Lord:I am going to stir up a destructive wind[a] against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai,[b](A)2 and I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they shall winnow her.They shall empty her land when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.(B)3 Let not t...
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51 This is what the Lord says:“I will stir up a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Babylonia.[a]2 Foreigners will come and winnow her, blowing her away as chaff.They will come from every side to rise against her in her day of trouble.3 Don’t let the archers put on their armor or draw their ...
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Babylon Is Destroyed51 The Lord says, “See, I will raise up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and against the people of Chaldea. 2 I will send strangers to destroy Babylon like a wind that blows straw away. For they will be against her on every side and leave her land empty in the day of he...
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The Utter Destruction of Babylon51 Thus says the Lord:“Behold, I will raise up against (A)Babylon,Against those who dwell in [a]Leb Kamai,(B)A destroying wind.2 And I will send (C)winnowers to Babylon,Who shall winnow her and empty her land.(D)For in the day of doomThey shall be against her all arou...
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51 This is what the Lord says:‘See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai.[a]2 I will send foreigners to Babylon to winnow her and to devastate her land;they will oppose her on every side in the day of her disaster.3 Let not the archer string his bow, n...
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51 The Lord says,“I will stir up the spirits of destroyers. They will march out against Babylon and its people.2 I will send other nations against it to separate the straw from the grain. I will send them to destroy Babylon completely.They will oppose it on every side. At that time it will be destro...
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51 This is what the Lord says:“I will soon cause a destroying wind to blow against Babylon and the Babylonian people.2 I will send foreign people to destroy Babylon like a wind that blows chaff away. They will destroy the land.Armies will surround the city when the day of disaster comes upon her.3 D...
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Chapter 51Another Prophecy against Babylon1 Thus says the Lord: Against Babylon and the inhabitants of Chaldea I will rouse a destructive wind.2 I will send foreigners to Babylon to winnow her and lay waste her land.They will besiege her from all sides on the day of disaster.3 Let no archer draw his...
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