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Jeremiah 51 King James Version (1769 Blayney Revision)
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Jeremiah 51 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon , and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind ; Copy 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 round about . Copy 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow , and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine : and spare ye not her young men ; destroy ye utterly all her host . Copy 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans , and they that are thrust through in her streets . Copy 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken , nor Judah of his God , of the Lord of hosts ; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel . Copy 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon , and deliver every man his soul : be not cut off in her iniquity ; for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance ; he will render unto her a recompence . Copy 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand , that made all the earth drunken : the nations have drunken of her wine ; therefore the nations are mad . Copy 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed : howl for her; take balm for her pain , if so be she may be healed . Copy 9 We would have healed Babylon , but she is not healed : forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country : for her judgment reacheth unto heaven , and is lifted up even to the skies . Copy 10 The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness : come , and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God . Copy 11 Make bright the arrows ; gather the shields : the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes : for his device is against Babylon , to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord , the vengeance of his temple . Copy 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon , make the watch strong , set up the watchmen , prepare the ambushes : for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon . Copy 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters , abundant in treasures , thine end is come , and the measure of thy covetousness . Copy 14 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself , saying, Surely I will fill thee with men , as with caterpillers ; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. Copy 15 He hath made the earth by his power , he hath established the world by his wisdom , and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding . Copy 16 When he uttereth his voice , there is a multitude of waters in the heavens ; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth : he maketh lightnings with rain , and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures . Copy 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge ; every founder is confounded by the graven image : for his molten image is falsehood , and there is no breath in them. Copy 18 They are vanity , the work of errors : in the time of their visitation they shall perish . Copy 19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance : the Lord of hosts is his name . Copy 20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war : for with thee will I break in pieces the nations , and with thee will I destroy kingdoms ; Copy 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider ; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider ; Copy 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman ; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young ; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid ; Copy 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock ; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen ; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers . Copy 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight , saith the Lord . Copy 25 Behold, I am against 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 burnt mountain . Copy 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner , nor a stone for foundations ; but thou shalt be desolate for ever , saith the Lord . Copy 27 Set ye up a standard in the land , blow the trumpet among the nations , prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat , Minni , and Ashchenaz ; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers . Copy 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes , the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion . Copy 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow : for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon , to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant . Copy 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight , they have remained in their holds : their might hath failed ; they became as women : they have burned her dwellingplaces ; her bars are broken . Copy 31 One post shall run to meet another , and one messenger to meet another , to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end , Copy 32 And that the passages are stopped , and the reeds they have burned with fire , and the men of war are affrighted . Copy 33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts , the God of Israel ; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor , it is time to thresh her: yet a little while , and the time of her harvest shall come . Copy 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel , he hath swallowed me up like a dragon , he hath filled his belly with my delicates , he hath cast me out . Copy 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon , shall the inhabitant of Zion say ; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea , shall Jerusalem say . Copy 36 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will plead thy cause , and take vengeance for thee ; and I will dry up her sea , and make her springs dry . Copy 37 And Babylon shall become heaps , a dwellingplace for dragons , an astonishment , and an hissing , without an inhabitant . Copy 38 They shall roar together like lions : they shall yell as lions ’ whelps . Copy 39 In their heat I will make their feasts , and I will make them drunken , that they may rejoice , and sleep a perpetual sleep , and not wake , saith the Lord . Copy 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter , like rams with he goats . Copy 41 How is Sheshach taken ! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised ! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations ! Copy 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Copy 43 Her cities are a desolation , a dry land , and a wilderness , a land wherein no man dwelleth , neither doth any son of man pass thereby . Copy 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon , and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up : and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall . Copy 45 My people , go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord . Copy 46 And lest your heart faint , and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land ; a rumour shall both come one year , and after that in another year shall come a rumour , and violence in the land , ruler against ruler . Copy 47 Therefore, behold, the days come , that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon : and her whole land shall be confounded , and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. Copy 48 Then the heaven and the earth , and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon : for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north , saith the Lord . Copy 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall , so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth . Copy 50 Ye that have escaped the sword , go away , stand not still : remember the Lord afar off , and let Jerusalem come into your mind . Copy 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 . Copy 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come , saith the Lord , that I will do judgment upon her graven images : and through all her land the wounded shall groan . Copy 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven , and though she should fortify the height of her strength , yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord . Copy 54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon , and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans : Copy 55 Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon , and destroyed out of her the great voice ; when her waves do roar like great waters , a noise of their voice is uttered : Copy 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon , and her mighty men are taken , every one of their bows is broken : for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite . Copy 57 And I will make drunk her princes , and her wise men, her captains , and her rulers , and her mighty men : and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep , and not wake , saith the King , whose name is the Lord of hosts . Copy 58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken , and her high gates shall be burned with fire ; and the people shall labour in vain , and the folk in the fire , and they shall be weary . Copy 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 quiet prince . Copy 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon , even all these words that are written against Babylon . Copy 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah , When thou comest to Babylon , and shalt see , and shalt read all these words ; Copy 62 Then shalt thou say , O Lord , thou hast spoken against this place , to cut it off , that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast , but that it shall be desolate for ever . Copy 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book , that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates : Copy 64 And thou shalt say , Thus shall Babylon sink , 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 . Copy
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King James Version, 1769 Blayney revision, public domain.
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