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| [1]Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against the inhabitants that lift up their heart against me, a destroying wind, |
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| [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 on every side. |
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| [3]Also to the bender that bendeth his bow, and to him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine , will I say, Spare not her young men, but destroy all her host. |
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| [4]Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. |
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| [5]For Israel hath been no widow, nor Judah from his God, from the Lord of hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the holy one of Israel. |
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| [6]Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not destroyed in her iniquity: for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance he will render unto her a recompense. |
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| [7]Babylon hath been as a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine, therefore do the nations rage. |
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| [8]Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, bring balm for her sore, if she may be healed. |
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| [9]We would have cured Babylon, but she could not be healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country: for her judgment is come up unto heaven, and is lifted up to the clouds. |
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| [10]The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness: come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God. |
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| [11]Make bright the arrows: gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the king of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord , and the vengeance of his temple. |
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| [12]Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong: set up the watchmen: prepare the scouts: for the Lord hath both devised, and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. |
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| [13]O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, even the end of thy covetousness. |
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| [14]The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself , saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars, and they shall cry and shout against thee. |
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| [15]He hath made the earth by his power, and established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his discretion. |
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| [16]He giveth by his voice the multitude of waters in the heaven, and he causeth the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth: he turneth lightnings to rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. |
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| [17]Every man is a beast by his own knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his melting is but falsehood, and there is no breath therein. |
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| [18]They are vanity , and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. |
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| [19]The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name. |
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| [20]Thou art mine hammer, and weapons of war: for with thee will I break the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms, |
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| [21]And by thee will I break horse and horseman, and by thee will I break the chariot and him that rideth therein. |
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| [22]By thee also will I break man and woman, and by thee will I break old and young, and by thee will I break the young man and the maid. |
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| [23]I will also break by thee the shepherd and his flock, and by thee will I break the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, and by thee will I break the dukes and princes. |
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| [24]And I will render unto Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of the Chaldeans all their evil, that they have done in Zion , even in your sight, saith the Lord. |
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| [25]Behold, I come unto 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 burned mountain. |
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| [26]They shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed forever, saith the Lord. |
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| [27]Set up a standard in the land: blow the trumpets among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call up the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her: appoint the prince against her: cause horses to come up as the rough caterpillars. |
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| [28]Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the dukes thereof, and the princes thereof, and all the land of his dominion. |
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| [29]And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for the devise of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon waste without an inhabitant. |
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| [30]The strong men of Baylon have ceased to fight: they have remained in their holds: their strength hath failed , and they were like women: they have burned her dwelling places, and her bars are broken. |
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| [31]A post shall run to meet the post, and a messenger to meet the messenger, to show the king of Babylon, that his city is taken on a side thereof, |
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| [32]And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds burned with fire, and the men of war troubled. |
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| [33]For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor: the time of her threshing is come: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. |
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| [34]Nebuchad-nezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an empty vessel: he swallowed me up like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates , and hath cast me out. |
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| [35]The spoil of me, and that which was left of me , is brought unto Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say: and my blood unto the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. |
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| [36]Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will maintain thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will dry up the sea, and dry up her springs. |
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| [37]And Babylon shall be as heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. |
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| [38]They shall roar together like lions, and yell as the lion's whelps. |
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| [39]In their heat I will make them feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord. |
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| [40]I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams and goats. |
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| [41]How is Sheshach taken! And how is the glory of the whole earth taken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! |
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| [42]The sea is come up upon Babylon: he is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. |
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| [43]Her cities are desolate: the land is dry and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth the son of man pass thereby. |
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| [44]I will also visit Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth, that which he hath swallowed up, and the nations shall run no more unto him, and the wall of Babylon shall fall. |
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| [45]My people go out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce wrath of the Lord, |
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| [46]Lest your heart even faint, and ye fear the rumor that shall be heard in the land: the rumor shall come this year, and after that in the other year shall come a rumor, and cruelty in the land, and ruler against ruler. |
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| [47]Therefore behold, the days come, that I will visit the images of Babylon, and the whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. |
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| [48]Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall rejoice for Babylon: for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord. |
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| [49]As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so by Babylon the slain of all the earth did fall. |
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| [50]Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. |
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| [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. |
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| [52]Wherefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will visit her graven images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan. |
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| [53]Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should defend her strength on high, yet from me shall her destroyers come, saith the Lord. |
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| [54]A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans, |
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| [55]Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste and destroyed from her the great voice, and her waves shall roar like great waters , and a sound was made by their noise: |
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| [56]Because the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her strong men are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord God that recompenseth, shall surely recompense. |
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| [57]And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts. |
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| [58]Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The thick wall of Babylon shall be broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire, and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, for they shall be weary. |
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| [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 peaceable prince. |
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| [60]So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon: even all these things that are written against Babylon. |
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| [61]And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest unto Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words, |
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| [62]Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, that none should remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate forever. |
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| [63]And when thou hast made an end of reading this book, thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it in the midst of Euphrates, |
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| [64]And shalt say, Thus shall Babylon be drowned, and shall not rise from the evil, that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. |
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