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Jeremiah 51:1 (show verse)
Thus hath the LORD said; Behold, I raise up against Babylon and against her inhabitants that rise up against me from the heart, a destroying wind.
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Jeremiah 51:2 (show verse)
And I 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.
Jeremiah 51:3 (show verse)
I shall say to the archer that bends his bow and unto him that lifts himself up in his brigandine, Spare ye not her young men; utterly destroy all her host.
Jeremiah 51:4 (show verse)
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans and those that are thrust through in her streets.
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Jeremiah 51:5 (show verse)
For Israel and Judah have not been made widows of their God, of the LORD of the hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
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Jeremiah 51:6 (show verse)
Flee out of the midst of Babylon and deliver each one his soul that ye not perish because of her iniquity, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
Jeremiah 51:7 (show verse)
Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand that made all the earth drunken: the Gentiles have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Jeremiah 51:8 (show verse)
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:9 (show verse)
We applied the medicine to Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go each one into his own land; for her judgment is come unto heaven and is lifted up even to the clouds.
Jeremiah 51:10 (show verse)
The LORD has brought our righteousness to light; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 51:11 (show verse)
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has awakened the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his thought is against Babylon to destroy her; for it is vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:12 (show verse)
Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has deliberated and shall put into effect that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:13 (show verse)
O thou that dwellest among many waters, rich in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.
Jeremiah 51:14 (show verse)
The LORD of the hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they shall sing the song of the winepress against thee.
Jeremiah 51:15 (show verse)
He is the one who makes the earth by his power; he upholds the world by his wisdom and extends the heavens by his intelligence;
Jeremiah 51:16 (show verse)
he who gives with his voice a multitude of waters from heaven, then he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.
Jeremiah 51:17 (show verse)
Every man has become carnal and is without knowledge; let every founder be ashamed of the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 51:18 (show verse)
They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 51:19 (show verse)
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 the hosts is his name.
Jeremiah 51:20 (show verse)
Thou art my hammer, O weapons of war: for with thee I will break in pieces the Gentiles, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms;
Jeremiah 51:21 (show verse)
and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariots and their riders;
Jeremiah 51:22 (show verse)
with thee also I will break in pieces men and women; and with thee I will break in pieces old and young; and with thee I will break in pieces young men and virgins;
Jeremiah 51:23 (show verse)
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee I will break in pieces dukes and princes.
Jeremiah 51:24 (show verse)
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, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:25 (show verse)
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee and roll thee down from the rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Jeremiah 51:26 (show verse)
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:27 (show verse)
Set ye up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the Gentiles, 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 raised up locusts.
Jeremiah 51:28 (show verse)
Prepare the nations against her: the kings of Media, the captains thereof, and all the princes thereof, and all the land of their dominion.
Jeremiah 51:29 (show verse)
And the land shall tremble and sorrow for every thought of the LORD is confirmed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:30 (show verse)
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight; they have remained in their holds; their might has failed; they became as women: the enemies have burned her dwellingplaces; they have broken her bars.
Jeremiah 51:31 (show verse)
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken in all places,
Jeremiah 51:32 (show verse)
And the fords were taken, and they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war were astounded.
Jeremiah 51:33 (show verse)
For thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor; it is now time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah 51:34 (show verse)
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicates; he has cast me out.
Jeremiah 51:35 (show verse)
The violence against me and my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah 51:36 (show verse)
Therefore thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I judge thy cause and shall take thy vengeance; and I will dry up her sea and make her flowing waters dry.
Jeremiah 51:37 (show verse)
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:38 (show verse)
They shall roar together like lions; they shall roar as lions' whelps.
Jeremiah 51:39 (show verse)
In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:40 (show verse)
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Jeremiah 51:41 (show verse)
How is Sheshach a prey! and how is she who was the praise of the whole earth taken! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the Gentiles!
Jeremiah 51:42 (show verse)
The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Jeremiah 51:43 (show verse)
Her cities were devastated, the land dry and desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither shall any son of man pass thereby.
Jeremiah 51:44 (show verse)
And I will visit Bel himself in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the Gentiles shall not flow together any more unto him; and the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Jeremiah 51:45 (show verse)
Come out of the midst of her, my people, and save each one his life from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:46 (show verse)
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear because of the news that shall be heard in the land; in one year shall the news come, and after that in the next year shall come the rumour, and then shall come the violence in the land, and the ruler over him who rules.
Jeremiah 51:47 (show verse)
Therefore, behold, the days come that I will visit the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be ashamed, and all her dead shall fall in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 51:48 (show verse)
Then the heavens and the earth and all that is therein shall sing praises over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:49 (show verse)
As Babylon has caused the dead of Israel to fall, so because of Babylon the dead of all the earth fell.
Jeremiah 51:50 (show verse)
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, do not tarry: remember the LORD for many days, and remember Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 51:51 (show verse)
We are ashamed, because we have heard the reproach; confusion has covered our faces; for strangers are come against the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.
Jeremiah 51:52 (show verse)
Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will visit her graven images; and through all her land the wounded unto death shall groan.
Jeremiah 51:53 (show verse)
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strength upon high, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:54 (show verse)
The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
Jeremiah 51:55 (show verse)
Because the LORD destroys Babylon and takes out of her the many thunders, her waves shall roar; like many waters shall be the sound of their voice:
Jeremiah 51:56 (show verse)
because the destroyer is come against her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bow is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.
Jeremiah 51:57 (show verse)
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of the hosts.
Jeremiah 51:58 (show verse)
Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly cast down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and peoples and nations shall labour in vain in the fire to save her, and they shall become weary.
Jeremiah 51:59 (show verse)
The word which Jeremiah the prophet sent to 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 the chief steward of the bedchambers.
Jeremiah 51:60 (show verse)
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:61 (show verse)
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see and shalt read all these things;
Jeremiah 51:62 (show verse)
then thou shalt say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that no one shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
Jeremiah 51:63 (show verse)
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;
Jeremiah 51:64 (show verse)
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 overcome. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.