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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, 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 beards 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 has 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, pains as of a woman in labor. {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 has become brutish 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 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; 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 has
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
has 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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