Jeremiah, starting at chapter 49
{49:1} Of the children of Ammon. Thus says the LORD: Has Israel no
sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people
well in its cities? {49:2} Therefore, behold, the days come, says the
LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of
the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her
daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those
who possessed him, says the LORD. {49:3} Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid
waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth:
lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go
into captivity, his priests and his princes together. {49:4} Why do
you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter?
who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me? {49:5}
Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts,
from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out every man
right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.
{49:6} But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children
of Ammon, says the LORD. {49:7} Of Edom. Thus says the LORD of Hosts:
Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is
their wisdom vanished? {49:8} Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths,
inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him,
the time that I shall visit him. {49:9} If grape gatherers came to
you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night,
wouldn't they destroy until they had enough? {49:10} But I have made
Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be
able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his
neighbors; and he is no more. {49:11} Leave your fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. {49:12}
For thus says the LORD: Behold, they to whom it didn't pertain to
drink of the cup shall certainly drink; and are you he who shall
altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall
surely drink. {49:13} For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that
Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;
and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes. {49:14} I have heard
news from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
[saying], Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise
up to the battle. {49:15} For, behold, I have made you small among the
nations, and despised among men. {49:16} As for your terror, the pride
of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the
rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your
nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the
LORD. {49:17} Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes
by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all its plagues. {49:18}
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of
it, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of
man live therein. {49:19} Behold, he shall come up like a lion from
the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will
suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I
appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time?
and who is the shepherd who will stand before me? {49:20} Therefore
hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his
purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely they shall drag them away, [even] the little ones of the flock;
surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. {49:21} The
earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise
which is heard in the Sea of Suf. {49:22} Behold, he shall come up and
fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah: and the
heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a
woman in her pangs. {49:23} Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and
Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is
sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet. {49:24} Damascus has grown
feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her:
anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
{49:25} How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
{49:26} Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the
men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says the LORD of
Hosts. {49:27} I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it
shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad. {49:28} Of Kedar, and of the
kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus
says the LORD: Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the
east. {49:29} Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall
carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and
their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on every side!
{49:30} Flee, wander far off, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of
Hazor, says the LORD; for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken
counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. {49:31}
Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care,
says the LORD; that have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.
{49:32} Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their
livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the
corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from
every side of them, says the LORD. {49:33} Hazor shall be a dwelling
place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there,
neither shall any son of man live therein. {49:34} The word of the
LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, {49:35} Thus
says the LORD of Hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the
chief of their might. {49:36} On Elam will I bring the four winds from
the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those
winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall
not come. {49:37} I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their
enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil
on them, even my fierce anger, says the LORD; and I will send the
sword after them, until I have consumed them; {49:38} and I will set
my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says
the LORD. {49:39} But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will
bring back the captivity of Elam, says the LORD.
{50:1} The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning
the land of the Kasdim, by Jeremiah the prophet. {50:2} Declare among
the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't
conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is
dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed. {50:3}
For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall
make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled,
they are gone, both man and animal. {50:4} In those days, and in that
time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the
children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and
shall seek the LORD their God. {50:5} They shall inquire concerning
Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come, and join
yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be
forgotten. {50:6} My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have
caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains;
they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their
resting place. {50:7} All who found them have devoured them; and their
adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against
the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even the LORD, the hope of
their fathers. {50:8} Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth
out of the land of the Kasdim, and be as the male goats before the
flocks. {50:9} For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up
against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and
they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall
be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall
return in vain. {50:10} The land of the Kasdim shall be a prey: all
who prey on her shall be satisfied, says the LORD. {50:11} Because you
are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because
you are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as
strong horses; {50:12} your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she
who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of
the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. {50:13} Because
of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be
wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and
hiss at all her plagues. {50:14} Set yourselves in array against
Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no
arrows: for she has sinned against the LORD. {50:15} Shout against her
all around: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her
walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take
vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her. {50:16} Cut off the
sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of
harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to
his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land. {50:17}
Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the
king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon has broken his bones. {50:18} Therefore thus says the LORD of
Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon
and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. {50:19} I will
bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and
Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in
Gilead. {50:20} In those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the
iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and
the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them
whom I leave as a remnant. {50:21} Go up against the land of
Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill
and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all
that I have commanded you. {50:22} A sound of battle is in the land,
and of great destruction. {50:23} How is the hammer of the whole earth
cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the
nations! {50:24} I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken,
Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught,
because you have striven against the LORD. {50:25} The LORD has opened
his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for
the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, has a work [to do] in the land of the
Kasdim. {50:26} Come against her from the utmost border; open her
storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let
nothing of her be left. {50:27} Kill all her bulls; let them go down
to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of
their visitation. {50:28} The voice of those who flee and escape out
of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD
our God, the vengeance of his temple. {50:29} Call together the
archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against
her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her
work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been
proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. {50:30}
Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of
war will be brought to silence in that day, says the LORD. {50:31}
Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, the LORD of
Hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you. {50:32}
The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and
I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are
around him. {50:33} Thus says the LORD of Hosts: The children of
Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who
took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. {50:34}
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is his name: he will
thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and
disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. {50:35} A sword is on the Kasdim,
says the LORD, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes,
and on her wise men. {50:36} A sword is on the boasters, and they
shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be
dismayed. {50:37} A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots,
and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they
shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be
robbed. {50:38} A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried
up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
{50:39} Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall
dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no
more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation
to generation. {50:40} As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and
the neighbor cities of it, says the LORD, so shall no man dwell there,
neither shall any son of man live therein. {50:41} Behold, a people
comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be
stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. {50:42} They lay
hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice
roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as
a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. {50:43} The
king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble:
anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
{50:44} Behold, [the enemy] shall come up like a lion from the pride
of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make
them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over
it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the
shepherd who can stand before me? {50:45} Therefore hear the counsel
of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that
he has purposed against the land of the Kasdim: Surely they shall drag
them away, [even] the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make
their habitation desolate over them. {50:46} At the noise of the
taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the
nations.
{51:1} Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind. {51:2} I
will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall
empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her
around. {51:3} Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow,
and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't
spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army. {51:4} They shall
fall down slain in the land of the Kasdim, and thrust through in her
streets. {51:5} For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of
the LORD of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy
One of Israel. {51:6} Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every
man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of
the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense. {51:7}
Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, who made all the
earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad. {51:8} Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail
for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. {51:9} We
would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let
us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to
heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. {51:10} The LORD has
brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the
work of the LORD our God. {51:11} Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the
shields: the LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes;
because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the
vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. {51:12} Set up a
standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the
watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both purposed and
done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
{51:13} You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end
has come, the measure of your covetousness. {51:14} The LORD of Hosts
has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as
with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
{51:15} He has made the earth by his power, he has established the
world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the
heavens: {51:16} when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters
in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of
the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind
out of his treasuries. {51:17} Every man is become brutish [and is]
without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for
his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. {51:18}
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish. {51:19} The portion of Jacob is not like these; for
he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his
inheritance: the LORD of Hosts is his name. {51:20} You are my battle
axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the
nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; {51:21} and with you
will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; {51:22} and with you
will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with
you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in
pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces
the young man and the virgin; {51:23} and with you will I break in
pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces
the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces
governors and deputies. {51:24} I will render to Babylon and to all
the inhabitants of the Kasdim for all their evil that they have done
in Zion in your sight, says the LORD. {51:25} Behold, I am against
you, destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth;
and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the
rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. {51:26} They shall not take
of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you
shall be desolate for ever, says the LORD. {51:27} Set up a standard
in the land, blow the [1>]shofar[<1] among the nations, prepare the
nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat,
Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses
to come up as the rough canker worm. {51:28} Prepare against her the
nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies,
and all the land of their dominion. {51:29} The land trembles and is
in pain; for the purposes of the LORD against Babylon do stand, to
make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. {51:30} The
mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their
strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her
dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken. {51:31} One
runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to
show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
{51:32} and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned
with fire, and the men of war are frightened. {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 when it is trodden; yet a little while,
and the time of harvest shall come for her. {51:34} Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an
empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled
his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out. {51:35} The violence
done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion
say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of the Kasdim, shall
Jerusalem say. {51:36} Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will
plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her
sea, and make her fountain dry. {51:37} Babylon shall become heaps, a
dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without
inhabitant. {51:38} They shall roar together like young lions; they
shall growl as lions' cubs. {51:39} When they are heated, I will make
their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and
sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD. {51:40} I will
bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male
goats. {51:41} How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole
earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
{51:42} The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the
multitude of its waves. {51:43} Her cities are become a desolation, a
dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does
any son of man pass thereby. {51:44} I will execute judgment on Bel in
Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has
swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the
wall of Babylon shall fall. {51:45} My people, go away from the midst
of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of the
LORD. {51:46} Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news
that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and
after that in another year [shall come] news, and violence in the
land, ruler against ruler. {51:47} Therefore, behold, the days come,
that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and
her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in
the midst of her. {51:48} Then the heavens and the earth, and all that
is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall
come to her from the north, says the LORD. {51:49} As Babylon has
caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain
of all the land. {51:50} You who have escaped the sword, go, don't
stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into
your mind. {51:51} We are confounded, because we have heard reproach;
confusion has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD's house. {51:52} Therefore, behold, the days
come, says the LORD, that I will execute judgment on her engraved
images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan. {51:53}
Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should
fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come
to her, says the LORD. {51:54} The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of
great destruction from the land of the Kasdim! {51:55} For the LORD
lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their
waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:
{51:56} for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the LORD is
a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. {51:57} I will make
drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies,
and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not
wake up, says the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts. {51:58} Thus
says the LORD of Hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly
overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the
peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they
shall be weary. {51:59} The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded
Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with
Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.
Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. {51:60} Jeremiah wrote in a book
all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that
are written concerning Babylon. {51:61} Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When
you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, {51:62}
and say, LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off,
that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it
shall be desolate forever. {51:63} It shall be, when you have made an
end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast
it into the midst of the Euphrates: {51:64} and you shall say, Thus
shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that
I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words
of Jeremiah.
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Footnotes:
[1] {51:27} or, trumpet
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