Jer 51:26 "They will not take from you even a stone for a corner Nor a stone for foundations, But you will be desolate forever," declares the LORD.
Jer 51:27 ¶ Lift up a signal in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz; Appoint a marshal against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
Jer 51:28 Consecrate the nations against her, The kings of the Medes, Their governors and all their prefects, And every land of their dominion.
Jer 51:29 So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.
Jer 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They stay in the strongholds; Their strength is exhausted, They are becoming like women; Their dwelling places are set on fire, The bars of her gates are broken.
Jer 51:31 One courier runs to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To tell the king of Babylon That his city has been captured from end to end;
Jer 51:32 The fords also have been seized, And they have burned the marshes with fire, And the men of war are terrified.
Jer 51:33 ¶ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor At the time it is stamped firm; Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her."
Jer 51:34 ¶ "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.
Jer 51:35 "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; And, "May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.
Jer 51:36 Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am going to plead your case And exact full vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.
Jer 51:37 "Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
Jer 51:38 "They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.
Jer 51:39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.
Jer 51:40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.
Jer 51:41 ¶ "How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
Jer 51:42 "The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
Jer 51:43 "Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no man lives And through which no son of man passes.
Jer 51:44 "I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
Jer 51:45 ¶ "Come forth from her midst, My people, And each of you save yourselves From the fierce anger of the LORD.