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| {{Verse|15|Shout against her on every side! She surrenders, her towers fall, her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the Lord, take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done to others. }} | | {{Verse|15|“He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. }} |
| {{Verse|16|}} | | {{Verse|16|When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.}} |
| {{Verse|17|}} | | {{Verse|17|“Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.}} |
| {{Verse|18|}} | | {{Verse|18|They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish.}} |
| {{Verse|19|}} | | {{Verse|19|He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including the people of his inheritance—the Lord Almighty is his name.}} |
| {{Verse|20|}} | | {{Verse|20|“You are my war club, my weapon for battle—with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms,}} |
| {{Verse|21|}} | | {{Verse|21|with you I shatter horse and rider, with you I shatter chariot and driver,}} |
| {{Verse|22|}} | | {{Verse|22|with you I shatter man and woman, with you I shatter old man and youth, with you I shatter young man and young woman,}} |
| {{Verse|23|}} | | {{Verse|23|with you I shatter shepherd and flock, with you I shatter farmer and oxen, with you I shatter governors and officials.}} |
| {{Verse|24|}} | | {{Verse|24|“Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia[a] for all the wrong they have done in Zion,” declares the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|25|}} | | {{Verse|25|“I am against you, you destroying mountain, you who destroy the whole earth,” declares the Lord. “I will stretch out my hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain.}} |
| {{Verse|26|}} | | {{Verse|26|No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone, nor any stone for a foundation, for you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|27|}} | | {{Verse|27|“Lift up a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her; summon against her these kingdoms: Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her; send up horses like a swarm of locusts.}} |
| {{Verse|28|}} | | {{Verse|28|Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the countries they rule.}} |
| {{Verse|29|}} | | {{Verse|29|The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord’s purposes against Babylon stand—to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there.}} |
| {{Verse|30|}} | | {{Verse|30|Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become weaklings. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.}} |
| {{Verse|31|}} | | {{Verse|31|One courier follows another and messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured,}} |
| {{Verse|32|}} | | {{Verse|32|the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.”}} |
| {{Verse|33|}} | | {{Verse|33|This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; the time to harvest her will soon come.”}} |
| {{Verse|34|}} | | {{Verse|34|“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.}} |
| {{Verse|35|}} | | {{Verse|35|May the violence done to our flesh[b] be on Babylon,” say the inhabitants of Zion. “May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,” says Jerusalem.}} |
| {{Verse|36|}} | | {{Verse|36|Therefore this is what the Lord says: “See, I will defend your cause and avenge you; I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.}} |
| {{Verse|37|}} | | {{Verse|37|Babylon will be a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and scorn, a place where no one lives.}} |
| {{Verse|38|}} | | {{Verse|38|Her people all roar like young lions, they growl like lion cubs.}} |
| {{Verse|39|}} | | {{Verse|39|But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter—then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|40|}} | | {{Verse|40|“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.}} |
| {{Verse|41|}} | | {{Verse|41|“How Sheshak will be captured, the boast of the whole earth seized! How desolate Babylon will be among the nations!}} |
| {{Verse|42|}} | | {{Verse|42|The sea will rise over Babylon; its roaring waves will cover her.}} |
| {{Verse|43|}} | | {{Verse|43|Her towns will be desolate, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives, through which no one travels.}} |
| {{Verse|44|}} | | {{Verse|44|I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.}} |
| {{Verse|45|}} | | {{Verse|45|“Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|46|}} | | {{Verse|46|Do not lose heart or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land; one rumor comes this year, another the next, rumors of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.}} |
| {{Verse|47|}} | | {{Verse|47|For the time will surely come when I will punish the idols of Babylon; her whole land will be disgraced and her slain will all lie fallen within her.}} |
| {{Verse|48|}} | | {{Verse|48|Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for out of the north destroyers will attack her,” declares the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|49|}} | | {{Verse|49|“Babylon must fall because of Israel’s slain, just as the slain in all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.}} |
| {{Verse|50|}} | | {{Verse|50|You who have escaped the sword, leave and do not linger! Remember the Lord in a distant land, and call to mind Jerusalem.”}} |
| {{Verse|51|}} | | {{Verse|51|“We are disgraced, for we have been insulted and shame covers our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the Lord’s house.”}} |
| {{Verse|52|}} | | {{Verse|52|“But days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.}} |
| {{Verse|53|}} | | {{Verse|53|Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, I will send destroyers against her,” declares the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|54|}} | | {{Verse|54|“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.}} |
| {{Verse|55|}} | | {{Verse|55|The Lord will destroy Babylon; he will silence her noisy din. Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound.}} |
| {{Verse|56|}} | | {{Verse|56|A destroyer will come against Babylon; her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken. For the Lord is a God of retribution; he will repay in full.}} |
| {{Verse|57|}} | | {{Verse|57|I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors, officers and warriors as well; they will sleep forever and not awake,” declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.}} |
| {{Verse|58|}} | | {{Verse|58|This is what the Lord Almighty says: "Babylon’s thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”}} |
| {{Verse|59|}} | | {{Verse|59|This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff officer Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year of his reign.}} |
| {{Verse|60|}} | | {{Verse|60|Jeremiah had written on a scroll about all the disasters that would come upon Babylon—all that had been recorded concerning Babylon.}} |
| {{Verse|61|}} | | {{Verse|61|He said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.}} |
| {{Verse|62|}} | | {{Verse|62|Then say, ‘Lord, you have said you will destroy this place, so that neither people nor animals will live in it; it will be desolate forever.’}} |
| {{Verse|63|}} | | {{Verse|63|When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.}} |
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| {{Verse|15|Shout against her round about: she hath 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, do unto her. }} | | {{Verse|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. }} |
| {{Verse|16|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|17|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|18|}} | | {{Verse|18|They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.}} |
| {{Verse|19|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|20|}} | | {{Verse|20|Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;}} |
| {{Verse|21|}} | | {{Verse|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;}} |
| {{Verse|22|}} | | {{Verse|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;}} |
| {{Verse|23|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|24|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|25|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|26|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|27|}} | | {{Verse|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 caterpillers.}} |
| {{Verse|28|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|29|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|30|}} | | {{Verse|30|The mighty men of Babylon have forborn 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.}} |
| {{Verse|31|}} | | {{Verse|31|One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,}} |
| {{Verse|32|}} | | {{Verse|32|And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.}} |
| {{Verse|33|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|34|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|35|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|36|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|37|}} | | {{Verse|37|And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.}} |
| {{Verse|38|}} | | {{Verse|38|They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.}} |
| {{Verse|39|}} | | {{Verse|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.}} |
| {{Verse|40|}} | | {{Verse|40|I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.}} |
| {{Verse|41|}} | | {{Verse|41|How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!}} |
| {{Verse|42|}} | | {{Verse|42|The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.}} |
| {{Verse|43|}} | | {{Verse|43|Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.}} |
| {{Verse|44|}} | | {{Verse|44|And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.}} |
| {{Verse|45|}} | | {{Verse|45|My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|46|}} | | {{Verse|46|And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.}} |
| {{Verse|47|}} | | {{Verse|47|Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.}} |
| {{Verse|48|}} | | {{Verse|48|Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|49|}} | | {{Verse|49|As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.}} |
| {{Verse|50|}} | | {{Verse|50|Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.}} |
| {{Verse|51|}} | | {{Verse|51|We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house.}} |
| {{Verse|52|}} | | {{Verse|52|Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan}} |
| {{Verse|53|}} | | {{Verse|53|Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.}} |
| {{Verse|54|}} | | {{Verse|54|A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:}} |
| {{Verse|55|}} | | {{Verse|55|Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:}} |
| {{Verse|56|}} | | {{Verse|56|Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.}} |
| {{Verse|57|}} | | {{Verse|57|And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.}} |
| {{Verse|58|}} | | {{Verse|58|Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.}} |
| {{Verse|59|}} | | {{Verse|59|The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.}} |
| {{Verse|60|}} | | {{Verse|60|So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.}} |
| {{Verse|61|}} | | {{Verse|61|And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;}} |
| {{Verse|62|}} | | {{Verse|62|Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.}} |
| {{Verse|63|}} | | {{Verse|63|And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:}} |
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| ''' Cross-References''' | | ''' Cross-References''' |
| #[[Jeremiah 51#v15|Jeremiah 51:15]] >> [[Jeremiah 10#v12|Jeremiah 10:12]] | | #[[Jeremiah 51#v15|Jeremiah 51:15]] >> [[Jeremiah 10#v12|Jeremiah 10:12]] |
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