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Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

Thus says the LORD:“Behold, I am going to arouse against BabylonAnd against the inhabitants of 1Leb-kamai2The aspirit of a destroyer.

2 “I will dispatch 1foreigners to Babylon that they may awinnow herAnd may devastate her land;For on every side they will be opposed to herIn the day of her calamity.3 “1Let not 2him who 3abends his bow 4bend it,5Nor let him rise up in his bscale-armor;So do not spare her young men;Devote all her army to destruction.4 “They will fall down 1slain in the land of the Chaldeans,And apierced through in their streets.”
5 For aneither Israel nor Judah has been 1forsakenBy his God, the LORD of hosts,Although their land is bfull of guilt2Before the Holy One of Israel.6 aFlee from the midst of Babylon,And each of you save his life!Do not be 1bdestroyed in her 2punishment,For this is the cLORD’S time of vengeance;He is going to drender recompense to her.7 Babylon has been a golden acup in the hand of the LORD,Intoxicating all the earth.The bnations have drunk of her wine;Therefore the nations are cgoing mad.8 Suddenly aBabylon has fallen and been broken;bWail over her!cBring 1balm for her pain;Perhaps she may be healed.9 We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;Forsake her and alet us each go to his own country,For her judgment has breached to heavenAnd 1towers up to the very skies.10 The LORD has abrought 1about our vindication;Come and let us brecount in ZionThe work of the LORD our God!
11 aSharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes,Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;For it is the bvengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.12 aLift up a 1signal against the walls of Babylon;Post a strong guard,Station 2sentries,Place men in ambush!For the LORD has both bpurposed and performedWhat He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.13 O you who adwell by many waters,Abundant in btreasures,Your end has come,The 1measure of your 2cend.14 The aLORD of hosts has sworn by Himself:“Surely I will fill you with a 1population like blocusts,And they will cry out with 2shouts of victory over you.”
15 It is aHe who made the earth by His power,Who established the world by His wisdom,And by His understanding He bstretched out the heavens.16 When He utters His avoice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,And He causes the bclouds to ascend from the end of the earth;He makes lightning for the rainAnd brings forth the cwind from His storehouses.17 aAll mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge;Every goldsmith is put to shame by his 1idols,For his molten images are bdeceitful,And there is no breath in them.18 They are aworthless, a work of mockery;In the time of their punishment they will perish.19 The aportion of Jacob is not like these;For the 1Maker of all is He,And of the 2tribe of His inheritance;The bLORD of hosts is His name.20 He says, “You are My 1awar-club, My weapon of war;And with you I bshatter nations,And with you I destroy kingdoms.21 “With you I ashatter the horse and his rider,And with you I shatter the bchariot and its rider,22 And with you I shatter aman and woman,And with you I shatter old man and byouth,And with you I shatter young man and virgin,23 And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,And with you I shatter governors and prefects.

24 “But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of aChaldea for ball their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares the LORD.

25 “Behold, aI am against you, bO destroying mountain,Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD,“And I will stretch out My hand against you,And roll you down from the crags,And I will make you a cburnt out mountain.26 “They will not take from you even a stone for a cornerNor a stone for foundations,But you will be adesolate forever,” declares the LORD.
27 aLift up a 1signal in the land,Blow a trumpet among the nations!Consecrate the nations against her,Summon against her the bkingdoms of cArarat, Minni and dAshkenaz;Appoint a marshal against her,Bring up the ehorses like bristly locusts.28 Consecrate the nations against her,The kings of the Medes,1Their governors and all 2their 3prefects,And every land of 4their dominion.29 So the aland quakes and writhes,For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,To make the land of Babylon1A bdesolation without inhabitants.30 The amighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,They stay in the strongholds;bTheir strength is 1exhausted,They are becoming clike women;Their dwelling places are set on fire,The dbars of her gates are broken.31 One 1acourier runs to meet 2another,And one 3bmessenger to meet 4another,To tell the king of BabylonThat his city has been captured from end to end;32 The fords also have been seized,And they have burned the marshes with fire,And the men of war are terrified.
33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:“The daughter of Babylon is like a athreshing floorAt the time 1it is stamped firm;Yet in a little while the time of bharvest will come for her.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has adevoured me and crushed me,He has set me down like an bempty vessel;He has cswallowed me like a monster,He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;He has washed me away.35 “May the aviolence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”The 1inhabitant of Zion will say;And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Jerusalem will say.

36 Therefore thus says the LORD,“Behold, I am going to aplead your caseAnd bexact full vengeance for you;And cI will dry up her 1seaAnd make her fountain dry.

37 “aBabylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,An bobject of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.38 “They will roar together like ayoung lions,They will growl like lions’ cubs.39 “When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquetAnd amake them drunk, that they may become jubilantAnd may bsleep a perpetual sleepAnd not wake up,” declares the LORD.40 “I will bring them down like 1lambs ato the slaughter,Like rams together with male goats.
41 “How 1aSheshak has been captured,And bthe praise of the whole earth been seized!How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!42 “The 1asea has come up over Babylon;She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.43 “Her cities have become an aobject of horror,A parched land and a desert,A land in which bno man livesAnd through which no son of man passes.44 “aI will punish Bel in Babylon,And I will make what he has swallowed bcome out of his mouth;And the nations will no longer cstream to him.Even the dwall of Babylon has fallen down!
45 “aCome forth from her midst, My people,And each of you bsave yourselvesFrom the fierce anger of the LORD.46 “Now aso that your heart does not grow faint,And you are not afraid at the breport that will be heard in the land—For the report will come 1one year,And after that 2another report in 3another year,And violence will be in the landWith cruler against ruler—47 Therefore behold, days are comingWhen I will punish the aidols of Babylon;And her whole land will be bput to shameAnd all her slain will fall in her midst.48 “Then aheaven and earth and all that is in themWill shout for joy over Babylon,For bthe destroyers will come to her from the north,”Declares the LORD.
49 aIndeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,As also for Babylon bthe slain of all the earth have fallen.50 You awho have escaped the sword,Depart! Do not stay!bRemember the LORD from afar,And let Jerusalem 1come to your mind.51 aWe are ashamed because we have heard reproach;Disgrace has covered our faces,For baliens have enteredThe holy places of the LORD’S house.
52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,“When I will punish her aidols,And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.53 “Though Babylon should aascend to the heavens,And though she should fortify 1her lofty stronghold,From bMe destroyers will come to her,” declares the LORD.
54 The asound of an outcry from Babylon,And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!55 For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon,And He will make her loud 1noise vanish from her.And their awaves will roar like many waters;The tumult of their voices 2sounds forth.56 For the adestroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,And her mighty men will be captured,Their bbows are shattered;For the LORD is a God of crecompense,He will fully repay.57 “I will amake her princes and her wise men drunk,Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men,That they may sleep a bperpetual sleep and not wake up,”cDeclares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

58 Thus says the LORD of hosts,“The broad awall of Babylon will be completely razedAnd her high bgates will be set on fire;So the peoples will ctoil for nothing,And the nations become dexhausted only for fire.”

59 The 1message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of aNeriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with bZedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.) 60 So Jeremiah awrote in a single 1scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. 61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud, 62 and say, ‘You, O LORD, have 1promised concerning this place to acut it off, so that there will be bnothing dwelling in it, 2whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’ 63 And as soon as you finish reading this 1scroll, you will tie a stone to it and athrow it into the middle of the Euphrates, 64 and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and anot rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become bexhausted.’” cThus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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Yahweh Sends Calamity to Babylon

Thus says Yahweh:“Behold, I am going to arouse against BabylonAnd against the inhabitants of 1Leb-kamai2The aspirit of a destroyer.

2 “I will send 1strangers to Babylon that they may awinnow herAnd may empty her land to destruction;For on every side they will be against herIn the day of her calamity.3 “1Let not 2him who 3abends his bow 4bend it,5Nor let him rise up in his bscale-armor;So do not spare her young men;Devote all her army to destruction.4 “They will fall down 1slain in the land of the Chaldeans,And apierced through in their streets.”
5 For aneither Israel nor Judah has been widowedBy his God, by Yahweh of hosts,Although their land is bfull of guilt1Before the Holy One of Israel.6 aFlee from the midst of Babylon,And each of you escape with his life!Do not be 1bsilenced in her 2iniquity,For this is cYahweh’s time of vengeance;He is going to drender recompense to her.7 Babylon has been a golden acup in the hand of Yahweh,Intoxicating all the earth.The bnations have drunk of her wine;Therefore the nations are cgoing mad.8 Suddenly aBabylon has fallen and been broken;bWail over her!cTake 1balm for her pain;Perhaps she may be healed.9 We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;Forsake her and alet us each go to his own country,For her judgment has btouched heavenAnd lifts up to the very skies.10 Yahweh has abrought 1about our righteousness;Come and let us brecount in ZionThe work of Yahweh our God!
11 aSharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!Yahweh has aroused the spirit of the kings of the MedesBecause His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;For it is the bvengeance of Yahweh, vengeance for His temple.12 aLift up a standard against the walls of Babylon;Make strong the watch;Raise up 1watchmen;Establish men in ambush!For Yahweh has both bpurposed and performedWhat He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.13 O you who adwell by abundant waters,Abundant in btreasures,Your end has come,The 1measure of your 2cend.14 aYahweh of hosts has sworn by Himself:“Surely I will fill you with a 1population like blocusts,And they will cry out with 2shouts of victory over you.”
15 It is aHe who made the earth by His power,Who established the world by His wisdom,And by His understanding He bstretched out the heavens.16 When He gives forth His avoice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,And He causes the bclouds to ascend from the end of the earth;He makes lightning for the rainAnd brings forth the cwind from His storehouses.17 aAll mankind is senseless, devoid of knowledge;Every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image,For his molten images are ba lie,And there is no breath in them.18 They are avanity, a work of mockery;In the time of their punishment they will perish.19 The aportion of Jacob is not like these;For the 1Maker of all is He,And of the 2tribe of His inheritance;bYahweh of hosts is His name.20 He says, “You are My ainstrument of shattering, My weapon of war;And with you I bshatter nations,And with you I destroy kingdoms.21 “With you I ashatter the horse and his rider,And with you I shatter the bchariot and its rider,22 And with you I shatter aman and woman,And with you I shatter old man and byouth,And with you I shatter choice man and virgin,23 And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,And with you I shatter the farmer and his pair of oxen,And with you I shatter governors and prefects.

24 “But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of aChaldea for ball their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares Yahweh.

25 “Behold, aI am against you, bO destroying mountain,Who destroys the whole earth,” declares Yahweh,“And I will stretch out My hand against youAnd roll you down from the crags,And I will make you a cburnt out mountain.26 “They will not take from you even a stone for a cornerNor a stone for foundations,But you will be a perpetual adesolation,” declares Yahweh.
27 aLift up a standard in the land,Blow a trumpet among the nations!Set apart the nations against her;Summon against her the bkingdoms of cArarat, Minni, and dAshkenaz;Appoint a marshal against her;Bring up the ehorses like bristly locusts.28 Set apart the nations against her,The kings of the Medes,1Their governors and all 2their 3prefectsAnd every land of 4their rule.29 So the aland quakes and writhes,For the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand,To make the land of Babylon1A bdesolation without inhabitants.30 The amighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;They inhabit the strongholds;bTheir might is dried up;They are becoming clike women;Their dwelling places are set on fire;The dbars of her gates are broken.31 One arunner runs to meet 1another,And one bmessenger to meet 2another,To give a message to the king of BabylonThat his city has been captured from end to end;32 The fords also have been seized,And they have burned the marshes with fire,And the men of war are terrified.

33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel:“The daughter of Babylon is like a athreshing floorAt the time 1it is stamped firm;Yet in a little while the time of bharvest will come for her.”

34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has adevoured me and brought me into confusion;He has set me down like an bempty vessel;He has cswallowed me like a sea monster;He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;He has rinsed me away.35 “May the aviolence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”The 1inhabitant of Zion will say;And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Jerusalem will say.

36 Therefore thus says Yahweh,“Behold, I am going to aplead your caseAnd bexact full vengeance for you;And cI will dry up her 1seaAnd make her fountain dry.

37 “aBabylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,An bobject of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.38 “They will roar together like ayoung lions;They will growl like lions’ cubs.39 “When they become heated up, I will set before them their feastAnd amake them drunk, that they may exultAnd may bsleep a perpetual sleepAnd not wake up,” declares Yahweh.40 “I will bring them down like 1lambs ato the slaughter,Like rams together with male goats.
41 “How 1aSheshak has been captured,And bthe praise of the whole earth been seized!How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!42 “The 1asea has come up over Babylon;She has been covered with its tumultuous waves.43 “Her cities have become an aobject of horror,A parched land, and a desert,A land in which bno man livesAnd through which no son of man passes.44 “aI will punish Bel in Babylon,And I will make what he has swallowed bcome out of his mouth;And the nations will no longer cstream to him.Even the dwall of Babylon has fallen down!
45 “aCome forth from her midst, My people,And each of you bescape with his lifeFrom the burning anger of Yahweh.46 “Now alest your heart grow faint,And you fear the breport that will be heard in the land—For the report will come 1one year,And after that 2another report in 3another year,And violence will be in the landWith cruler against ruler—47 Therefore behold, days are comingWhen I will punish the agraven images of Babylon;And her whole land will be bput to shame,And all her slain will fall in her midst.48 “Then aheaven and earth and all that is in themWill shout for joy over Babylon,For bthe destroyers will come to her from the north,”Declares Yahweh.
49 aIndeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,As also for Babylon bthe slain of all the earth have fallen.50 You awho have escaped the sword,Go! Do not stand around!bRemember Yahweh from afar,And let Jerusalem come upon your heart.51 aWe are ashamed because we have heard reproach;Dishonor has covered our faces,For bstrangers have enteredThe holy places of the house of Yahweh.
52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh,“When I will punish her agraven images,And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.53 “Though Babylon should aascend to the heavens,And though she should fortify 1her lofty stronghold,From bMe destroyers will come to her,” declares Yahweh.
54 The asound of an outcry from Babylon,And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!55 For Yahweh is going to destroy Babylon,And He will make her loud 1noise 2vanish from her.And their awaves will roar like many waters;The rumbling of their voices 3sounds forth.56 For the adestroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,And her mighty men will be captured;Their bbows are shattered;For Yahweh is a God of crecompense,He will fully repay.57 “I will amake her princes and her wise men drunk,Her governors, her prefects, and her mighty men,That they may sleep a bperpetual sleep and not wake up,”cDeclares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.

58 Thus says Yahweh of hosts,“The broad awall of Babylon will be completely razed,And her high bgates will be set on fire;So the peoples will ctoil for nothing,And the nations become dweary only for fire.”

59 The 1message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of aNeriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with bZedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.) 60 So Jeremiah awrote in a single 1scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. 61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud, 62 and then you will say, ‘You, O Yahweh, have 1promised concerning this place to acut it off, so that there will be bnothing inhabiting it, 2whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’ 63 And as soon as you finish reading this 1scroll, you will tie a stone to it and athrow it into the middle of the Euphrates, 64 and then you will say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and anot rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become butterly weary.’” cThus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

Thus says the LORD:“Behold, I am going to stir up and put into action a fury against BabylonAnd against the rebellious people of Leb-kamai (Chaldea)A adestroying wind and hostile spirit;

2 And I will send foreigners to Babylon that they may awinnow herAnd may devastate and empty her land;For in the day of destructionThey will be against her on every side.3 “Do not let him (the Chaldean defender) who abends his bow bend it,Nor let him rise up in his bcoat of armor.So do not spare her young men;Devote her entire army to destruction.4 “They shall fall down dead in the land of the Chaldeans,And awounded in her streets.”
5 For aneither Israel nor Judah has been 1abandonedBy his God, the LORD of hosts,Though their land is bfull of sin and guiltBefore the Holy One of Israel.6 aFlee out of Babylon,Let every one of you save his life!Do not be bdestroyed in her punishment,For this is the ctime of the LORD’S vengeance;He is going to dpay her what she has earned. Jer 50:28; 2+@Cor 6:17; Rev 18:47 Babylon has been a golden acup in the LORD’S hand,Intoxicating all the earth.The bnations drank her wine;Therefore the nations have cgone mad. Rev 14:8; 17:48 aBabylon has suddenly fallen and is shattered!bWail for her if you care to!cGet balm for her incurable pain;Perhaps she may be healed. Jer 25:15; Rev 14:8-10; 16:19; 18:2, 39 We would have healed Babylon, but she was not to be healed.Abandon her and alet each captive return to his own country,For her guilt and judgment have breached to heavenAnd are lifted up to the very skies. Gen 18:20, 2110 The LORD has abrought about our vindication and has revealed the righteousness of our cause;Come and let us bproclaim in ZionThe work of the LORD our God!
11 aSharpen the arrows, take up the shields and cover yourselves!The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the 1Medes,Because His purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it;For that is the bvengeance of the LORD, vengeance on Babylon for plundering and destroying His temple.12 aSet up a signal on the walls of Babylon to spread the news;Post a strong blockade,Station the guards,Prepare the men for ambush!For the LORD has both bpurposed and doneThat which He spoke against the people of Babylon.13 O Babylon you who alive by many waters,Rich in btreasures,Your end has come,And the line measuring your life is ccut. Rev 17:1-614 The aLORD of hosts has sworn an oath by Himself, saying,“Surely I will fill you with men, as with a swarm of blocusts who strip the land clean,And they will lift up a song and shout of victory over you.”
15 aHe made the earth by His power;He established the world by His wisdomAnd bstretched out the heavens by His understanding.16 When He utters His avoice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,And He causes the bclouds to ascend from the ends of the earth.He makes lightnings for the rainAnd brings out the cwind from His storehouses.17 aEvery man has become stupid and brutelike, without knowledge of God;Every goldsmith is shamed by the cast images he has made;For his molten idols are ba lie,And there is no breath of life or spirit in them.18 They are aworthless (empty, false, futile) , a work of delusion and worthy of derision;In the time of their inspection and punishment they will perish.19 The aPortion of Jacob the true God of Israel is not like these handmade gods;For He is the Maker of all and the One who formed and fashioned all things,And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—The bLORD of hosts is His name. Jer 10:12-1620 “You Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon are My abattle-axe and weapon of war—For with you I bshatter nations,With you I destroy kingdoms.21 “With you I ashatter the horse and his rider,With you I shatter the bchariot and its driver,22 With you I shatter aman and woman,With you I shatter old man and byouth,With you I shatter young man and virgin,23 With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,With you I shatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen,And with you I shatter governors and commanders.

24 “And I will completely repay Babylon and all the people of aChaldea for ball the evil that they have done in Zion—before your very eyes I will do it,” says the LORD.

25 “Behold, aI am against you,bO destroying mountain conqueror of nations,Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD,“I will stretch out My hand against you,And roll you down from the rugged cliffs,And will make you a cburnt mountain (extinct volcano) .26 “They will not take from you even a stone for a cornerstoneNor any rock for a foundation,But you will be 1adesolate forever,” says the LORD.
27 aLift up a signal in the land to spread the news!Blow the trumpet among the nations!Dedicate the nations for war against her;Call against her the bkingdoms of cArarat, Minni, and dAshkenaz.Appoint a marshal against her;Cause the ehorses to come up like bristly locusts with their wings not yet released from their cases.28 Prepare and dedicate the nations for war against her—The kings of Media,With their governors and commanders,And every land of their dominion.29 The aland trembles and writhes in pain and sorrow,For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,To make the land of BabylonA bdesolation without inhabitants.30 The amighty warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight;They remain in their strongholds.bTheir strength and power have failed;They are becoming weak and helpless clike women.Their dwelling places are set on fire;The 1dbars on her gates are broken.31 One acourier runs to meet another,And one bmessenger to meet another,To tell the 1king of BabylonThat his city has been captured from end to end;32 And that the fords across the Euphrates have been blocked and the ferries seized,And they have set the great marshes on fire,And the men of war are terrified.

33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:“The Daughter of Babylon is like a 1athreshing floorAt the time it is being trampled and prepared;Yet in a little while the time of bharvest will come for her.”

34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has adevoured 1me, he has crushed me,He has set me down like an bempty vessel.Like a monster he has cswallowed me up,He has filled his belly with my delicacies;He has spit me out and washed me away.35 “May the aviolence done to me and to my flesh and blood be upon Babylon,”The inhabitant of Zion will say;And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Jerusalem will say.

36 Therefore thus says the LORD,“Behold, I will aplead your caseAnd btake full vengeance for you;cI will dry up her sea and great reservoirAnd make her fountain dry.

37 “aBabylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt and dwelling place of jackals,An object of bhorror (an astonishing desolation) and a hissing of scorn and amazement, without inhabitants.38 “They (the Chaldean lords) will be roaring together before their sudden capture like ayoung lions roaring over their prey,They (the princes) will be growling like lions’ cubs.39 “When they are 1inflamed with wine and lust during their drinking bouts, I will prepare them a feast of My wrathAnd amake them drunk, that they may rejoiceAnd may bsleep a perpetual sleepAnd not wake up,” declares the LORD.40 “I will bring them down like lambs ato the slaughter,Like rams together with male goats.
41 “How aSheshak (Babylon) has been captured,And bthe praise of the whole earth been seized!How Babylon has become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror among the nations!42 “The asea has come up over Babylon;She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.43 “Her cities have become an astonishing adesolation and an object of horror,A parched land and a desert,A land in which bno one lives,And through which no son of man passes.44 “aI will punish and judge Bel the handmade god in BabylonAnd btake out of his mouth what he has swallowed up the stolen sacred articles and the captives of Judah and elsewhere.The nations will no longer cflow to him.Yes, the dwall of Babylon has fallen down!
45 “aCome out of her midst, My people,And each of you escape and bsave yourselfFrom the fierce anger of the LORD. Jer 50:8; 2+@Cor 6:17; Rev 18:446 “Now beware aso that you do not lose heart,And so that you are not afraid at the brumor that will be heard in the land—For the rumor shall come one year,And after that another rumor in another year,And violence shall be in the land,cRuler against ruler—47 Therefore behold (listen carefully) , the days are comingWhen I will judge and punish the aidols of Babylon;Her whole land will be perplexed and bshamed,And all her slain will fall in her midst.48 “Then aheaven and earth and all that is in themWill shout and sing for joy over Babylon,For the 1bdestroyers will come against her from the north,”Says the LORD. Is 44:23; Jer 51:11; Rev 12:12; 18:20
49 aIndeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,As also for Babylon bthe slain of all the earth have fallen.50 You awho have escaped the sword,Go away! Do not stay!bRemember the LORD from far away,And let desolate Jerusalem come into your mind.51 aWe are perplexed and ashamed, for we have heard reproach;Disgrace has covered our faces,For bforeigners from Babylon have comeInto the most sacred parts of the sanctuary of the LORD even those places forbidden to all but the appointed priest.
52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,“When I will judge and punish the aidols of Babylon,And throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan.”53 “Though Babylon should aascend to the heavens,And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold,Yet destroyers will come on her from bMe,” says the LORD.
54 The asound of an outcry comes from Babylon,And the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!55 For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon and make her a ruin,And He will still her great voice that hums with city life.And the awaves of her conquerors roar like great waters,The noise of their voices is raised up like the marching of an army.56 For the adestroyer is coming against her, against Babylon;And her mighty warriors will be captured,Their bbows are shattered;For the LORD is a God of just crestitution;He will fully repay.57 “I will amake her princes and her wise men drunk,Her governors and her commanders and her mighty warriors;They will sleep a bperpetual sleep and not wake up,”cSays the King—the LORD of hosts is His name.

58 Thus says the LORD of hosts,“The 1broad awall of Babylon will be completely overthrown and the foundations razedAnd her high bgates will be set on fire;The peoples will clabor in vain,And the nations become dexhausted only for fire that will destroy their work.” Hab 2:13

59 The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of aNeriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with bZedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now this Seraiah was chief chamberlain or quartermaster and brother of Baruch. 60 So Jeremiah awrote in a single scroll all the disaster which would come on Babylon, that is all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. 61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, see to it that you read all these words aloud, 62 and say, ‘You, O LORD, have promised concerning this place to acut it off and destroy it, so that there shall be bnothing living in it, neither man nor animal, but it will be perpetually desolate.’ 63 And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you shall tie a stone to it and athrow it into the middle of the Euphrates. 64 Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink down and anot rise because of the disaster that I will bring on her; and the Babylonians will become hopelessly bexhausted.’” cThus the words of Jeremiah are completed. Rev 18:21

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Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

This is what the LORD says:“Behold, I am going to stir up1The aspirit of a destroyer against BabylonAnd against the inhabitants of 2Leb-kamai.

2 “I will send 1foreigners to Babylon so that they may awinnow herAnd devastate her land;For they will be opposed to her on every sideOn the day of her disaster.3 “Let not 1him who 2abends his bow 3bend it,Nor let him rise up in his bcoat of armor.Do not spare her young men;Devote all her army to destruction.4 “They will fall down 1dead in the land of the Chaldeans,And apierced through in their streets.”
5 For aneither Israel nor Judah has been 1forsakenBy his God, the LORD of armies,Although their land is bfull of guilt2Before the Holy One of Israel.6 aFlee from the midst of Babylon,And each of you save his life!Do not bperish in her 1punishment,For this is the cLORD’S time of vengeance;He is going to drepay to her what she deserves.7 Babylon has been a golden acup in the hand of the LORD,Intoxicating all the earth.The bnations have drunk of her wine;Therefore the nations are cgoing insane.8 Suddenly aBabylon has fallen and been broken;bWail over her!cBring 1balm for her pain;Perhaps she may be healed.9 We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;Abandon her and alet’s each go to his own country,For her judgment has breached to heavenAnd it rises to the clouds.10 The LORD has abrought 1about our vindication;Come and let’s brecount in ZionThe work of the LORD our God!
11 aSharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,Because His plan is against Babylon to destroy it;For it is the bvengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.12 aLift up a signal flag against the walls of Babylon;Post a strong guard,Station 1sentries,Set up an ambush!For the LORD has both bplanned and performedWhat He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.13 You who alive by many waters,Abundant in btreasures,Your end has come,The 1measure of your 2cend.14 The aLORD of armies has sworn by Himself:“I will certainly fill you with a 1population like blocusts,And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you.”
15 It is aHe who made the earth by His power,Who established the world by His wisdom,And by His understanding He bstretched out the heavens.16 When He utters His avoice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens,And He makes the bclouds ascend from the end of the earth.He makes lightning for the rainAnd brings out cwind from His storehouses.17 aEvery person is stupid, devoid of knowledge;Every goldsmith is put to shame by his 1idols,For his cast metal images are bdeceitful,And there is no breath in them.18 They are aworthless, a work of mockery;At the time of their punishment they will perish.19 The aportion of Jacob is not like these;For He is the 1Maker of everything,And of the 2tribe of His inheritance;The bLORD of armies is His name.20 He says, “You are My 1awar-club, My weapon of war;And with you I bshatter nations,And with you I destroy kingdoms.21 “With you I ashatter the horse and his rider,And with you I shatter the bchariot and its rider,22 And with you I shatter aman and woman,And with you I shatter the old man and byouth,And with you I shatter the young man and virgin,23 And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,And with you I shatter governors and officials.

24 “But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of aChaldea for ball their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares the LORD.

25 “Behold, aI am against you, mountain of bdestructionThat destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD,“And I will stretch out My hand against you,And roll you down from the rocky cliffs,And I will make you a cburnt out mountain.26 “They will not take from you even a stone for a cornerNor a stone for foundations,But you will be adesolate forever,” declares the LORD.
27 aLift up a signal flag in the land,Blow a trumpet among the nations!Consecrate the nations against her,Summon against her the bkingdoms of cArarat, Minni, and dAshkenaz;Appoint an officer against her,Bring up the ehorses like bristly locusts.28 Consecrate the nations against her,The kings of the Medes,1Their governors and all 2their officials,And every land 3under their control.29 So the aland quakes and writhes,For the plans of the LORD against Babylon stand,To make the land of Babylon1A bdesolation without inhabitants.30 The awarriors of Babylon have ceased fighting,They stay in the strongholds;bTheir strength is 1exhausted,They are becoming clike women;Their homes are set on fire,The dbars of her gates are broken.31 One 1acourier runs to meet 2another,And one 3bmessenger to meet 4another,To tell the king of BabylonThat his city has been captured from end to end;32 The river crossing places have been seized,And they have burned the marshes with fire,And the men of war are terrified.
33 For this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says:“The daughter of Babylon is like a athreshing floorAt the time that 1it is tread down;In just a little while the time of bharvest will come for her.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has adevoured me, he has crushed me,He has set me down like an bempty vessel;He has cswallowed me like a monster,He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;He has washed me away.35 “May the aviolence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”The 1inhabitant of Zion will say;And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Jerusalem will say.

36 Therefore this is what the LORD says:“Behold, I am going to aplead your caseAnd btake vengeance for you;And cI will dry up her 1seaAnd make her fountain dry.

37 “aBabylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,An bobject of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.38 “They will roar together like ayoung lions,They will growl like lions’ cubs.39 “When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquetAnd amake them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph,And may bsleep a perpetual sleepAnd not wake up,” declares the LORD.40 “I will bring them down like 1lambs ato the slaughter,Like rams together with male goats.
41 “How 1aSheshak has been captured,And bthe praise of the whole earth has been seized!How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!42 “The 1asea has come up over Babylon;She has been engulfed by its roaring waves.43 “Her cities have become an aobject of horror,A dry land and a desert,A land in which bno one livesAnd through which no 1one of mankind passes.44 “aI will punish Bel in Babylon,And I will make what he has swallowed bcome out of his mouth;And the nations will no longer cstream toward him.Even the dwall of Babylon has fallen down!
45 “aCome out from her midst, My people,And each of you bsave yourselvesFrom the fierce anger of the LORD.46 “Now, aso that your heart does not grow faint,And you are not afraid at the breport that will be heard in the land—For the report will come in 1one year,And after that 2another report in 3another year,And violence will be in the landWith cruler against ruler—47 Therefore behold, days are comingWhen I will punish the aidols of Babylon;And her whole land will be bput to shame.And all her slain will fall in her midst.48 “Then aheaven and earth and everything that is in themWill shout for joy over Babylon,Because bthe destroyers will come to her from the north,”Declares the LORD.
49 aIndeed, Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,As bthe slain of all the earth have also fallen for Babylon.50 You awho have escaped the sword,Go! Do not stay!bRemember the LORD from far away,And let Jerusalem 1come to your mind.51 aWe are ashamed because we have heard rebuke;Disgrace has covered our faces,Because bstrangers have enteredThe holy places of the LORD’S house.
52 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,“When I will punish her aidols,And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.53 “Though Babylon aascends to the heavens,And though she fortifies 1her lofty stronghold,Destroyers will come from bMe to her,” declares the LORD.
54 The asound of an outcry from Babylon,And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!55 For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon,And He will make her loud 1noise vanish from her.And their awaves will roar like many waters;The clamor of their voices 2sounds forth.56 For the adestroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,And her warriors will be captured,Their bbows shattered;For the LORD is a God of cretribution,He will fully repay.57 “I will amake her leaders and her wise men drunk,Her governors, her officials, and her warriors,So that they will sleep a bperpetual sleep and not wake up,”cDeclares the King, whose name is the LORD of armies.

58 This is what the LORD of armies says:“The broad awall of Babylon will be completely demolished,And her high bgates will be set on fire;So the peoples will clabor for nothing,And the nations become dexhausted only for fire.”

59 The 1command that Jeremiah the prophet 2gave Seraiah the son of aNeriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with bZedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (And Seraiah was quartermaster.) 60 Jeremiah awrote 1on a single scroll all the disaster which would come against Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. 61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud, 62 and say, ‘You, LORD, have 1promised concerning this place to acut it off, so that there will be bnothing living in it, 2whether man or animal; but it will be a permanent desolation.’ 63 And as soon as you finish reading this 1scroll, you shall tie a stone to it and athrow it into the middle of the Euphrates, 64 and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and anot rise again, because of the disaster that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become bexhausted.’” cTo this point are the words of Jeremiah.