Jeremiah 51:41-49 - Babylon's Fate

41 "How Sheshak will be captured, and the prince of all the earth seized! How Babylon will become an object of horror among the nations! 42 The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave. 43 Her cities will become an object of horror, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no human being passes. 44 I'll punish Bel in Babylon, and I'll make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth. The nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon will fall.

45 "Come out of her, my people, flee for your lives from the LORD's anger! 46 Do this now, so your heart does not grow faint, and so you don't become frightened because of the rumors that are heard in the land a rumor comes one year and then after it another rumor comes the next year about violence in the land and one ruler against another ruler. 47 Therefore, look, days are coming when I'll punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will be put to shame, and all her slain will fall in her midst. 48 Then the heavens and the earth and all that are in them will shout for joy about Babylon because the destroyers will come out of the north against her," declares the LORD.

49 "So Babylon will fall because of the slain of Israel, even as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.


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