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Jeremiah 51:1 (show verse)
Thus hath the LORD said, "Behold, I will raise up a perilous wind against Babylon and her citizens, that bear evil will against me.
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Jeremiah 51:2 (show verse)
I will send also into Babylon fanners, to fan her out, and to destroy her land: for in the day of her trouble they shall be about her on every side.
Jeremiah 51:3 (show verse)
Moreover, the LORD hath said unto the bowmen, and to them that climb over the walls in breastplates: He shall not spare her young men; kill down all her host.
Jeremiah 51:4 (show verse)
Thus the slain shall fall down in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the streets.
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Jeremiah 51:5 (show verse)
As for Israel and Judah, they shall not be forsaken of their God, of the LORD of Hosts, of the holy one of Israel: no, though they have filled all their land full of sin.
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Jeremiah 51:6 (show verse)
Fly away from Babylon; every man save his life. Let no man hold his tongue to her wickedness, for the time of the LORD's vengeance is come; yea, he shall reward her again.
Jeremiah 51:7 (show verse)
"Babylon hath been in the LORD's hand a golden cup, that maketh all lands drunken. Of her wine have all people drunken, therefore are they out of their wits.
Jeremiah 51:8 (show verse)
But suddenly is Babylon fallen and destroyed. Mourn for her; bring plasters for her wounds, if she may peradventure be healed again.
Jeremiah 51:9 (show verse)
'We would have made Babylon whole,' say they, 'but she is not recovered. Therefore will we let her alone, and go every man into his own country. For her judgment is come in to heaven, and is gone up to the clouds.'
Jeremiah 51:10 (show verse)
And therefore come on, we will show Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 51:11 (show verse)
Make sharp the arrows, and fill the quivers: for the LORD shall raise up the spirit of the king of the Medes, which hath already a desire to destroy Babylon. This shall be the vengeance of the LORD's, and the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:12 (show verse)
Set up tokens upon the walls of Babylon, make your watch strong, set your watchmen in array, yea hold privy watches: and yet for all that shall the LORD go forth with the device, which he hath taken upon them that dwell in Babylon.
Jeremiah 51:13 (show verse)
O thou that dwellest by the great waters, O thou that hast so great treasure and riches, thine end is come: and the reckoning of thy winnings.
Jeremiah 51:14 (show verse)
The LORD of Hosts hath sworn by himself that he will overwhelm thee with men, like grasshoppers in number, which with courage shall cry 'Alarum, Alarum' against thee.
Jeremiah 51:15 (show verse)
Yea even the LORD of Hosts, that with his power made the earth, with his wisdom prepared the round world, and with his discretion spied out the heavens.
Jeremiah 51:16 (show verse)
As soon as he letteth his voice be heard, the waters in the air wax fierce: He draweth up the clouds from the ends of the earth. He turneth the lightnings to rain, he bringeth the winds out of their secret places.
Jeremiah 51:17 (show verse)
By the reason of wisdom, all men are become fools. Confounded be all the casters of images: for the thing that they make is but deceit, and hath no breath.
Jeremiah 51:18 (show verse)
Vain is it; and worthy to be laughed at. And in the time of visitation it shall perish.
Jeremiah 51:19 (show verse)
"Nevertheless, the portion of Jacob is none such: but he that made all things, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, he is the rod of his inheritance.
Jeremiah 51:20 (show verse)
Thou breakest my weapons of war, and yet through thee I have scattered the nations and kingdoms;
Jeremiah 51:21 (show verse)
through thee have I scattered horse and horseman; yea, the chariots, and such as sat upon them;
Jeremiah 51:22 (show verse)
through thee I have scattered man and woman, old and young, bachelor and maiden.
Jeremiah 51:23 (show verse)
Through thee I have scattered the shepherd and his flock, the husbandman and his cattle, the princes and the rulers.
Jeremiah 51:24 (show verse)
Therefore will I reward the city of Babylon and all her citizens the Chaldeans, with all the evil which they have done unto Zion. Yea, that ye yourselves shall see it, sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:25 (show verse)
"Behold, I come upon thee, thou noisesome hill, sayeth the LORD; thou that destroyest all lands. I will stretch out my hand over thee, and cast thee down from the stony rocks; and will make thee a burnt hill,
Jeremiah 51:26 (show verse)
so that neither cornerstones, nor pinnacles, nor foundation stones shall be taken any more out of thee, but waste and desolate shalt thou lie for evermore, sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:27 (show verse)
Set up a token in the land, blow the trumpets among the Heathen, provoke the nations against her, call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her: set the prince against her, bring as great a sort of horses against her, as if they were grasshoppers.
Agriculture » Foes of » Caterpillars
Ararat » A district » A district of armenia
Armenia » A region in western asia
Armies » Compared to » Caterpillars
Ashkenaz » Descendants of
Caterpillar » Sent as a judgment
Horses » Numbers of, kept for war
Minni » A district » A district of armenia
Mountains » Names of » Ararat, in armenia
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Trumpet » Used in war
Ararat » A district » A district of armenia
Armenia » A region in western asia
Armies » Compared to » Caterpillars
Ashkenaz » Descendants of
Caterpillar » Sent as a judgment
Horses » Numbers of, kept for war
Minni » A district » A district of armenia
Mountains » Names of » Ararat, in armenia
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Trumpet » Used in war
Jeremiah 51:28 (show verse)
Prepare against them the people of the Medes with their kings, princes and all their chief rulers; yea, and the whole land that is under them.
Jeremiah 51:29 (show verse)
The land also shall shake and be afraid, when the device of the LORD shall come forth against Babylon: to make the land of Babylon so waste that no man shall dwell any more therein.
Jeremiah 51:30 (show verse)
The Worthies of Babylon shall leave the battle, and keep themselves in strongholds, their strength hath failed them, they shall be like women. Their dwelling places shall be burnt up, their bars shall be broken.
Effeminacy » General references to
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Powerlessness » Of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Effeminacy, general references to
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
Woman » Characterized as » Timid
Women » Are timid
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Powerlessness » Of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Effeminacy, general references to
human Weakness » Powerlessness of men, often due to sin and unbelief » Babylon enervated by idolatry
Woman » Characterized as » Timid
Women » Are timid
Jeremiah 51:31 (show verse)
One pursuant shall meet another; yea, one post shall come by another; to bring the king of Babylon tidings that his city is taken in on every side:
Jeremiah 51:32 (show verse)
the fords occupied; the fens burnt up; and the soldiers sore afraid.
Jeremiah 51:33 (show verse)
"For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon hath been in her time like as a threshing floor, but shortly shall her harvest come.
Jeremiah 51:34 (show verse)
'Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an empty vessel. He swallowed me up like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates: he hath cast me out.
Jeremiah 51:35 (show verse)
He hath taken my substance away and the thing that was left me hath he carried unto Babylon,' sayeth the daughter that dwelleth in Zion. 'Yea, and my blood also, unto the Chaldeans,' sayeth Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 51:36 (show verse)
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I will defend thy cause, and avenge thee: I will drink up her sea, and dry up her water springs.
Jeremiah 51:37 (show verse)
Babylon shall become a heap of stones, a dwelling place for dragons, a fearfulness and wondering, because no man dwelleth there.
Jeremiah 51:38 (show verse)
They shall roar together like lions, and as the young lions when they be angry, so shall they bend themselves.
Jeremiah 51:39 (show verse)
In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:40 (show verse)
I shall carry them down to be slain like sheep, like whethers and goats.
Jeremiah 51:41 (show verse)
O how was Sheshach won? O, how was the glory of the whole land taken? How happeneth it that Babylon is so wondered at among the Heathen?
Jeremiah 51:42 (show verse)
The sea is risen over Babylon, and hath covered her with his great waves.
Jeremiah 51:43 (show verse)
Her cities are laid waste, the land lieth unbuilded and void: it is a land where no man dwelleth, and where no man traveleth through.
Jeremiah 51:44 (show verse)
Moreover, I will visit Bel at Babylon: and the thing that he hath swallowed up, that same shall I pluck out of his mouth. The Gentiles also shall run no more unto him; yea, and the walls of Babylon shall fall.
Jeremiah 51:45 (show verse)
O my people, come out of Babylon: that every man may save his life from the fearful wrath of the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:46 (show verse)
Be not faint hearted, and fear not at every rumor that shall be heard in the land: for every year bringeth new tidings; yea, strange wickedness and lordship.
Jeremiah 51:47 (show verse)
And lo, the time cometh that I will visit the images of Babylon, and the whole land shall be confounded; yea, and her slain shall lie in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 51:48 (show verse)
Heaven and earth, with all that is therein, shall rejoice over Babylon when the destroyers shall come upon her from the North, sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:49 (show verse)
Like as Babylon hath beaten down and slain many out of Israel, so shall there fall many, and be slain, in all her kingdom.
Jeremiah 51:50 (show verse)
Ye that have escaped the sword: haste you, stand not still. Remember the LORD afar off, and think upon Jerusalem:
Jeremiah 51:51 (show verse)
for we were ashamed to hear the blasphemies; our faces were covered with shame, because the strange aliens came into the Sanctuary of the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:52 (show verse)
"Wherefore, behold, sayeth the LORD, the time cometh that I will visit the images of Babylon, and through the whole land they shall mourn and fall.
Jeremiah 51:53 (show verse)
Though Babylon climbed up into heaven, and kept her power on high: yet shall I send her destroyers, sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:54 (show verse)
A piteous cry shall be heard from Babylon, and a great misery from the land of the Chaldeans:
Jeremiah 51:55 (show verse)
when the LORD destroyeth them, and when he driveth out the high stomach and proud boasting, wherewith they have been as furious as the waves of great water floods, and made great crakes with their words.
Jeremiah 51:56 (show verse)
For the destroyers shall come upon her, even upon Babylon, which shall take her worthies and brake their bows: for God is disposed to avenge himself upon them, and sufficiently to recompense them.
Jeremiah 51:57 (show verse)
Yea, sayeth the LORD, I will make their princes, their wise men, their chief rulers and all their worthies, drunken: so that they shall sleep an everlasting sleep and never wake. Thus sayeth the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 51:58 (show verse)
"Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The thick wall of Babylon shall be broken, and her proud gates shall be burnt up. And the thing that the Gentiles and the people have wrought with great travail and labour shall come to naught and be consumed in the fire."
Jeremiah 51:59 (show verse)
This is the charge that Jeremiah gave unto Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went toward Babylon with Zedekiah the king of Judah, in the fourth year of his reign. Now this Seraiah was a peaceable prince.
Euphrates » Casts the scroll containing the prophecies against babylon into
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Maaseiah » Grandfather of baruch
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Seraiah » A servant of zedekiah
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » Nebuchadnezzar destroys the city and temple, takes him captive to babylon, blinds his eyes, kills his sons
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Maaseiah » Grandfather of baruch
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Seraiah » A servant of zedekiah
Zedekiah » Made king of judah by nebuchadnezzar » Nebuchadnezzar destroys the city and temple, takes him captive to babylon, blinds his eyes, kills his sons
Jeremiah 51:60 (show verse)
Jeremiah wrote in a book all the misery that should come upon Babylon; yea, and all these sermons that be written against Babylon;
Jeremiah 51:61 (show verse)
and gave Seraiah this charge, "When thou comest unto Babylon, see that thou read all these words,
Jeremiah 51:62 (show verse)
and say, 'O LORD, thou art determined to root out this place, so that neither people nor cattle shall dwell there anymore, but to lie waste forever.'
Jeremiah 51:63 (show verse)
And when thou hast read out the book, bind a stone to it, and cast it in the midst of Euphrates,
Euphrates » Casts the scroll containing the prophecies against babylon into
Euphrates, the » Prophecies respecting babylon thrown into, as a sign
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Prophets » Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people
Symbols and similitudes » The book thrown into the euphrates river
Euphrates, the » Prophecies respecting babylon thrown into, as a sign
Jeremiah » The prophet » Book of the prophecies of, delivered to seraiah, with a charge from jeremiah
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Prophets » Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people
Symbols and similitudes » The book thrown into the euphrates river
Jeremiah 51:64 (show verse)
and say, 'Even thus shall Babylon sink, and be thrust down with the burden of trouble that I will bring upon her: so that she shall never come up again.'" Thus far are the preachings of Jeremiah.