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[1] Yahweh says: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
[2] I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.
[3] Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!
[4] They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
[5] For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
[6] “Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
[7] Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
[8] Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.
[9] “We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
[10] ‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness. Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
[11] “Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh 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 Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
[12] Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
[13] You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
[14] Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift up a shout against you.’
[15] “He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
[16] When he utters his voice, there is a roar 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 the wind out of his treasuries.
[17] “Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
[18] They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
[19] The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he formed all things, including the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
[20] “You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.
[21] With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.
[22] With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.
[23] With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies.
[24] “I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
[25] “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.
[26] They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
[27] “Set 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 Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the swarming locusts!
[28] Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
[29] The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
[30] The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
[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.
[32] So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”
[33] For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “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 comes for her.”
[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 mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
[35] May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.
[36] Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
[37] Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
[38] They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
[39] When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
[40] “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
[41] “How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
[42] The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
[43] Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.
[44] I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
[45] “My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
[46] Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
[47] Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
[48] Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
[49] “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
[50] You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
[51] “We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
[52] “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan.
[53] Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
[54] “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
[55] For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.
[56] For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of retribution. He will surely repay.
[57] I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
[58] Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
[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.
[60] Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
[61] Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
[62] and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’
[63] It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
[64] Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

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Jeremiah 51 (KJVS)

[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 ;
[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 .
[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 .
[4] Thus the slain shall fall () in the land of the Chaldeans , and [they that are] thrust through () in her streets .
[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 .
[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 .
[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 ().
[8] Babylon is suddenly fallen () and destroyed (): howl () for her; take () balm for her pain , if so be she may be healed ().
[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 .
[10] The LORD hath brought forth () our righteousness : come (), and let us declare () in Zion the work of the LORD our God .
[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 .
[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 .
[13] O thou that dwellest () (8675) () upon many waters , abundant in treasures , thine end is come (), [and] the measure of thy covetousness .
[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.
[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 .
[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 .
[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.
[18] They [are] vanity , the work of errors : in the time of their visitation they shall perish ().
[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 .
[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 ;
[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 ();
[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 ;
[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 .
[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 .
[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 .
[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 .
[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 .
[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 .
[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 ().
[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 ().
[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 ,
[32] And that the passages are stopped (), and the reeds they have burned () with fire , and the men of war are affrighted ().
[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 ().
[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 ().
[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 ().
[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 ().
[37] And Babylon shall become heaps , a dwellingplace for dragons , an astonishment , and an hissing , without an inhabitant ().
[38] They shall roar () together like lions : they shall yell () as lions ’ whelps .
[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 .
[40] I will bring them down () like lambs to the slaughter (), like rams with he goats .
[41] How is Sheshach taken ()! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised ()! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations !
[42] The sea is come up () upon Babylon : she is covered () with the multitude of the waves thereof.
[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 .
[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 ().
[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 .
[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 ().
[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.
[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 .
[49] As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall (), so at Babylon shall fall () the slain of all the earth .
[50] Ye that have escaped the sword , go away (), stand not still (): remember () the LORD afar off , and let Jerusalem come () into your mind .
[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 .
[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 ().
[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 .
[54] A sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon , and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans :
[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 ():
[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 ().
[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 .
[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 ().
[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 .
[60] So Jeremiah wrote () in a book all the evil that should come () upon Babylon , [even] all these words that are written () against Babylon .
[61] And Jeremiah said () to Seraiah , When thou comest () to Babylon , and shalt see (), and shalt read () all these words ;
[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 .
[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 :
[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 .

Young’s Literal Translation

Jeremiah 51 (YLT)

[1] Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up against Babylon, And the inhabitants of Leb-My withstanders, A destroying wind,
[2] And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about-in the day of evil.
[3] Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host.
[4] And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.
[5] For, not forsaken is Israel and Judah, By its God-by Jehovah of Hosts, For their land hath been full of guilt, Against the Holy One of Israel.
[6] Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, And deliver ye each his soul, Be not cut off in its iniquity, For a time of vengeance it is to Jehovah, Recompence He is rendering to her.
[7] A golden cup is Babylon in the hand of Jehovah, Making drunk all the earth, Of its wine drunk have nations, Therefore boast themselves do nations.
[8] Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.
[9] We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For come unto the heavens hath its judgment, And it hath been lifted up unto the clouds.
[10] Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousnesses, Come, and we recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.
[11] Cleanse ye the arrows, fill the shields, Stirred up hath Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Madia, For against Babylon His device is to destroy it, For the vengeance of Jehovah it is, The vengeance of His temple.
[12] Unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign, Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, For Jehovah hath both devised and done that which He spake, Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
[13] O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain.
[14] Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee with men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against thee-shouting.
[15] The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,
[16] At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters are in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And He bringeth out wind from His treasures.
[17] Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image, And there is no breath in them.
[18] Vanity are they-work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.
[19] Not like these is the portion of Jacob, For He is former of all things, And Israel is the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.
[20] An axe art thou to me-weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms,
[21] And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer,
[22] And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,
[23] And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.
[24] And I have recompensed to Babylon, And to all inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evil that they have done in Zion, Before your eyes-an affirmation of Jehovah.
[25] Lo, I am against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain.
[26] And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.
[27] Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.
[28] Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.
[29] And shake doth the land, and it is pained, For stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
[30] Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might, they have become woman, They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars.
[31] Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon, For, captured hath been his city-at the extremity.
[32] And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.
[33] For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing-yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.
[34] Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.
[35] My wrong, and that of my flesh is on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood is on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say doth Jerusalem.
[36] Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.
[37] And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
[38] Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions’ whelps.
[39] In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not-an affirmation of Jehovah.
[40] I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
[41] How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.
[42] Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.
[43] Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land-none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.
[44] And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed-from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.
[45] Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver ye, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah,
[46] And lest your heart be tender, And ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And come in a year hath the report, And after it in a year the report, And violence is in the land, ruler against ruler;
[47] Therefore, lo, days are coming, And I have seen after the graven images of Babylon. And all its land is ashamed, And all its pierced ones do fall in its midst.
[48] And cried aloud against Babylon Have heavens and earth, and all that is in them, For, from the north come to it do the spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.
[49] Even Babylon is to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all the earth.
[50] Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.
[51] We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Covered hath shame our faces, For come in have strangers, against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.
[52] Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have seen after its graven images, And in all its land groan doth the wounded.
[53] Because Babylon goeth up to the heavens, And because it fenceth the high place of its strength, From Me come into it do spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.
[54] A voice of a cry is from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
[55] For Jehovah is spoiling Babylon, And hath destroyed out of it a great voice, And sounded have its billows as many waters, Given forth a noise hath their voice.
[56] For come in against it-against Babylon-hath a spoiler, And captured have been its mighty ones, Broken have been their bows, For the God of recompences- Jehovah-doth certainly repay.
[57] And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not-an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.
[58] Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, the wall of Babylon- The broad one-is utterly made bare, And her high gates with fire are burnt, And peoples labour in vain, And nations in fire, and have been weary!
[59] The word that Jeremiah the prophet hath commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, in his going with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign-and Seraiah is a quiet prince;
[60] and Jeremiah writeth all the evil that cometh unto Babylon on one book-all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
[61] And Jeremiah saith unto Seraiah, ‘When thou dost enter Babylon, then thou hast seen, and hast read all these words,
[62] and hast said: Jehovah, Thou, Thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that there is none dwelling in it, from man even unto cattle, for it is a desolation age-during.
[63] And it hath come to pass, when thou dost finish reading this book, thou dost bind to it a stone, and hast cast it into the midst of Phrat,
[64] and said, Thus sink doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.’ Hitherto are words of Jeremiah.