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Jeremiah, Chapter 46

1 That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
2 To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
3 
“Line up the shield anda I.e. small shieldbuckler,
And draw near for the battle!
4 
“Harness the horses,
Andb Or go up, you horsemenmount the steeds,
And take your stand with helmets on!
Polish the spears,
Put on the scale-armor!
5 
“Why have I seen it?
They are terrified,
They are drawing back,
And their mighty men are defeated
And have taken refuge in flight,
Without facing back;
c Heb Magor-missabib; i.e. Terror is on every sideTerror is on every side!”
Declares the LORD.
6 
Let not the swift man flee,
Nor the mighty man escape;
In the north beside the river Euphrates
They have stumbled and fallen.
7 
Who is this that rises like the Nile,
Like the rivers whose waters surge about?
8 
Egypt rises like the Nile,
Even like the rivers whose waters surge about;
And He has said, “I will rise and cover that land;
I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.”
9 
Go up, you horses, andd Lit act like madmendrive madly, you chariots,
That the mighty men maye Lit go forthmarch forward:
Ethiopia andf I.e. Libya (or Somaliland)Put, that handle the shield,
And theg Heb LudimLydians, that handle and bend the bow.
10 
For that day belongs to the Lordh Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGOD of hosts,
A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes;
And the sword will devour and be satiated
Andi Lit be saturated withdrink its fill of their blood;
For there will be a slaughter for the Lordj Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGOD of hosts,
In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.
11 
Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multipliedk Lit healingsremedies;
There is no healing for you.
12 
The nations have heard of your shame,
And the earth is full of your cry of distress;
For one warrior has stumbled overl Lit warrioranother,
And both of them have fallen down together.
13 This is them Lit wordmessage which the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:
14 
“Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol,
Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,
For the sword has devoured those around you.’
15 
“Why have your mighty ones become prostrate?
They do not stand because the LORD has thrust them down.
16 
“They have repeatedly stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen one against another.
Then they said, ‘Get up! And let us go back
To our own people and our native land
Away from then Lit oppressing swordsword of the oppressor.’
17 
“o Some ancient versions read Call the name of Pharaoh a big noiseThey cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’
18 
“As I live,” declares the King
Whose name is the LORD of hosts,
“Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains,
Or like Carmel by the sea.
19 
“Make your baggage ready for exile,
O daughter dwelling in Egypt,
For Memphis will become a desolation;
It will even be burned down andp Lit withoutbereft of inhabitants.
20 
“Egypt is a pretty heifer,
But aq Or possibly mosquitohorsefly is coming from the north—it is coming!
21 
“Also her mercenaries in her midst
Are liker Lit of the stallfattened calves,
For even they too have turned back and have fled away together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their calamity has come upon them,
The time of their punishment.
22 
“Its sound moves along like a serpent;
For they move ons Or in forcelike an army
And come to her as woodcutters with axes.
23 
“They have cut down her forest,” declares the LORD;
“Surely it will no more be found,
Even thought I.e. trees of the forest, the Egyptiansthey are now more numerous than locusts
And are without number.
24 
“The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,
Given over to theu Lit handpower of the people of the north.”
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him. 26 I shall give them over to thev Lit handpower of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of hisw Lit servantsofficers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the LORD.
27 
“But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear,
Nor be dismayed, O Israel!
For, see, I am going to save you from afar,
And your descendants from the land of their captivity;
And Jacob will return and be undisturbed
And secure, with no one making him tremble.
28 
“O Jacob My servant, do not fear,” declares the LORD,
“For I am with you.
For I will make a full end of all the nations
Where I have driven you,
Yet I will not make a full end of you;
But I will correct you properly
And by no means leave you unpunished.”

Jeremiah, Chapter 47

1 That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoha Lit smoteconquered Gaza. 2 Thus says the LORD:“Behold, waters are going to rise from the north
And become an overflowing torrent,
And overflow the land and all its fullness,
The city and those who live in it;
And the men will cry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will wail.
3“Because of the noise of theb Lit stamping of thegalloping hoofs of hisc Lit mighty onesstallions,
The tumult of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not turned back for their children,
Because of the limpness of their hands,
4On account of the day that is coming
To destroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon
Every ally that is left;
For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
5“Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon has been ruined.
O remnant of their valley,
How long will you gash yourself?
6“Ah, sword of the LORD,
How long will you not be quiet?
Withdraw into your sheath;
Be at rest and stay still.
7“How cand Lit youit be quiet,
When the LORD has given it an order?
Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast—
There He has assigned it.”

Jeremiah, Chapter 48

1 Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,“Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed;
Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The lofty stronghold has been put to shame anda Or dismayedshattered.
2“There is praise for Moab no longer;
In Heshbon they have devised calamity against her:
‘Come and let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You too,b I.e. a city of MoabMadmen, will be silenced;
The sword will follow after you.
3“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’
4“Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.
5“For by the ascent of Luhith
They will ascend with continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard thec Lit distresses of outcryanguished cry of destruction.
6“Flee, save your lives,
That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
7“For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures,
Even you yourself will be captured;
And Chemosh will go off into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
8“A destroyer will come to every city,
So that no city will escape;
The valley also will be ruined
And the plateau will be destroyed,
As the LORD has said.
9“Gived Or saltwings to Moab,
For she wille Or fall in ruinsflee away;
And her cities will become a desolation,
Without inhabitants in them.
10“Cursed be the one who does the LORD’S work negligently,
And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.
11 
“Moab has been at ease since his youth;
He has also been undisturbed, like wine onf Lit hisits dregs,
And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
Nor has he gone into exile.
Thereforeg Lit his flavor has stayed in himhe retains his flavor,
And his aroma has not changed.
12 Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatterh Lit theirhis jars. 13 And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
14 
“How can you say, ‘We are mighty warriors,
And men valiant for battle’?
15 
“Moab has been destroyed andi Lit one hasmen have gone up toj Lit herhis cities;
His choicestk I.e. warriorsyoung men have also gone down to the slaughter,”
Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
16 
“The disaster of Moab will soon come,
And his calamity has swiftly hastened.
17 
“Mourn for him, all you who live around him,
Even all of you who know his name;
Say, ‘How has the mightyl Or rodscepter been broken,
A staff of splendor!’
18 
“Come down from your glory
And sitm Lit in thirston the parched ground,
O daughter dwelling in Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you,
He has ruined your strongholds.
19 
“Stand by the road and keep watch,
O inhabitant of Aroer;
Ask him who flees and her who escapes
And say, ‘What has happened?’
20 
“Moab has been put to shame, for it has beenn Or dismayedshattered.
Wail and cry out;
Declare by the Arnon
That Moab has been destroyed.
21 “Judgment has also come upon the plain, upon Holon, Jahzah and against Mephaath, 22 against Dibon, Nebo and Beth-diblathaim, 23 against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul and Beth-meon, 24 against Kerioth, Bozrah and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. 25 The horn of Moab has been cut off and his arm broken,” declares the LORD. 26 “Make him drunk, for he haso Or magnified himself againstbecome arrogant toward the LORD; so Moab willp Or splash intowallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock. 27 Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was heq Or foundcaught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.
28 
“Leave the cities and dwell among the crags,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.
29 
“We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—
Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance andr Lit elevation of his hearthis self-exaltation.
30 
“I know his fury,” declares the LORD,
“But it is futile;
His idle boasts have accomplished nothing.
31 
“Therefore I will wail for Moab,
Even for all Moab will I cry out;
s Another reading is HeI will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
32 
“More than the weeping for Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah!
Your tendrils stretched across the sea,
They reached to the sea of Jazer;
Upon your summer fruits and your grape harvest
The destroyer has fallen.
33 
“So gladness and joy are taken away
From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.
And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy.
34 From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they havet Lit given forthraised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate. 35 I will make an end of Moab,” declares the LORD, “the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one whou Or offers up in smokeburns incense to his gods.
36 “Therefore My heartv Lit soundswails for Moab like flutes; My heart alsow Lit soundswails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced. 37 For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins. 38 On all the housetops of Moab and in its streetsx Lit all of it is lamentationthere is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel,” declares the LORD. 39 “Howy Or dismayedshattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him.”
40 For thus says the LORD:“Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle
And spread out his wings against Moab.
41“Kerioth has been captured
And the strongholds have been seized,
So the hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that day
Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
42“Moab will be destroyed from being a people
Because he hasz Or magnified himself againstbecome arrogant toward the LORD.
43“Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you,
O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the LORD.
44“The one who flees from the terror
Will fall into the pit,
And the one who climbs up out of the pit
Will be caught in the snare;
For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,
The year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
45 
“In the shadow of Heshbon
The fugitives stand without strength;
For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon
And a flame from the midst of Sihon,
And it has devoured the forehead of Moab
And the scalps of theaa Lit sons of tumultriotous revelers.
46 
“Woe to you, Moab!
The people of Chemosh have perished;
For your sons have been taken away captive
And your daughters into captivity.
47 
“Yet I will restore theab Or captivityfortunes of Moab
In theac Lit end of the dayslatter days,” declares the LORD.


Thus far the judgment on Moab.

Jeremiah, Chapter 49

1 Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says the LORD:“Does Israel have no sons?
Or has he no heirs?
Why then hasa In 1 Kin 11:5, 33 and Zeph 1:5, MilcomMalcam taken possession of Gad
And his people settled in its cities?
2“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“That I will cause ab Or shout oftrumpet blast of war to be heard
Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap,
And her towns will be set on fire.
Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,”
Says the LORD.
3“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed!
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah,
Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament,
And rush back and forth inside the walls;
Forc Cf v 1Malcam will go into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.
4“How boastful you are about the valleys!
Your valley is flowing away,
O backsliding daughter
Who trusts in her treasures, saying,
‘Who will come against me?’
5“Behold, I am going to bring terror upon you,”
Declares the Lordd Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGOD of hosts,
“From all directions around you;
And each of you will be driven oute Lit before himheadlong,
With no one to gather the fugitives together.
6“But afterward I will restore
Thef Or captivityfortunes of the sons of Ammon,”
Declares the LORD.
7 
Concerning Edom.
Thus says the LORD of hosts,
“Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman?
Has good counsel been lost to the prudent?
Has their wisdom decayed?
8 
“Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Dedan,
For Ig Or broughtwill bring the disaster of Esau upon him
At the time Ih Or punishedpunish him.
9 
“If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves came by night,
They would destroy onlyi Lit their sufficiencyuntil they had enough.
10 
“But I have stripped Esau bare,
I have uncovered his hiding places
So that he will not be able to conceal himself;
Hisj Lit seedoffspring has been destroyed along with hisk Lit brothersrelatives
And his neighbors, and he is no more.
11 
“Leave yourl Or fatherlessorphans behind, I will keep them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me.”
12 For thus says the LORD, “Behold, thosem Lit whose judgment was not towho were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it. 13 For I have sworn by Myself,” declares the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins.”
14 
I have heard a message from the LORD,
And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying,
“Gather yourselves together and come against her,
And rise up for battle!”
15 
“For behold, I have made you small among the nations,
Despised among men.
16 
“As for the terror of you,
The arrogance of your heart has deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts ofn Or Selathe rock,
Who occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” declares the LORD.
17 “Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds. 18 Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it. 19 Behold, one will come up like a lion from theo Lit pridethickets of the Jordan againstp Or an enduring habitationa perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?”
20 Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make theirq Or habitationpasture desolate because of them. 21 The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at ther Lit Sea of ReedsRed Sea. 22 Behold,s Or oneHe will mount up and swoop like an eagle and spread out His wingst Or overagainst Bozrah; and the hearts of the mighty men of Edom in that day will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
23 
Concerning Damascus.
“Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,
For they have heard bad news;
They are disheartened.
There is anxiety by the sea,
It cannot be calmed.
24 
“Damascus has become helpless;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her;
Distress and pangs have taken hold of her
Like a woman in childbirth.
25 
“Howu Or deserted is the city of praisethe city of praise has not been deserted,
The town of My joy!
26 
“Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets,
And all the men of war will bev Or destroyedsilenced in that day,” declares the LORD of hosts.
27 
“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,
And it will devour thew Or palacesfortified towers of Ben-hadad.”
28 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the LORD,“Arise, go up to Kedar
And devastate thex Lit sonsmen of the east.
29“They will take away their tents and their flocks;
They will carry off for themselves
Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels,
And they will call out to one another, ‘Terror on every side!’
30“Run away, flee! Dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Hazor,” declares the LORD;
“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has formed a plan against you
And devised a scheme against you.
31“Arise, go up against a nation which is at ease,
Which lives securely,” declares the LORD.
“It has no gates or bars;
They dwell alone.
32“Their camels will become plunder,
And their many cattle for booty,
And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair;
And I will bring their disaster from every side,” declares the LORD.
33“Hazor will become a haunt of jackals,
A desolation forever;
No one will live there,
Nor will a son of man reside in it.”
34 That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:
35 
“Thus says the LORD of hosts,
‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam,
They Lit firstfinest of their might.
36 
‘I will bring upon Elam the four winds
From the four ends of heaven,
And will scatter them to all these winds;
And there will be no nation
To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.
37 
‘So I willz Or dismayshatter Elam before their enemies
And before those who seek their lives;
And I will bring calamity upon them,
Even My fierce anger,’ declares the LORD,
‘And I will send out the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.
38 
‘Then I will set My throne in Elam
And destroyaa Or from thereout of it king and princes,’
Declares the LORD.
39 
‘But it will come about in the last days
That I will restore theab Or captivityfortunes of Elam,’”
Declares the LORD.

Jeremiah, Chapter 50

1 The word which the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
2 
“Declare and proclaim among the nations.
Proclaim it and lift up a standard.
Do not conceal it but say,
‘Babylon has been captured,
Bel has been put to shame,a Heb MerodachMarduk has beenb Or dismayedshattered;
Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.’
3 For a nation has come up against her out of the north; it will make her land an object of horror, and there will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!
4 “In those days and at that time,” declares the LORD, “the sons of Israel will come, both they and the sons of Judah as well; they will go along weeping as they go, and it will be the LORD their God they will seek. 5 They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their facesc Lit hitherin its direction;d M.T. reads come ye!theye Or will have comewill come that they may join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
6 
“My people have become lost sheep;
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They have made them turn aside on the mountains;
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their resting place.
7 
“All who came upon them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,
Inasmuch as they have sinned against the LORD who is the habitation of righteousness,
Even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
8 
“Wander away from the midst of Babylon
Andf Another reading is let them go forthgo forth from the land of the Chaldeans;
Be also like male goatsg Or in front ofat the head of the flock.
9 
“For behold, I am going to arouse and bring up against Babylon
A horde of great nations from the land of the north,
And they will draw up their battle lines against her;
From there she will be taken captive.
Their arrows will be likeh So some mss and versions; M.T. reads a warrior who makes childlessan expert warrior
Who does not return empty-handed.
10 
“i Or the ChaldeansChaldea will become plunder;
All who plunder her will have enough,” declares the LORD.
11 
“Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
O you who pillage My heritage,
Because you skip aboutj Another reading is in the grasslike a threshing heifer
And neigh likek Lit mighty onesstallions,
12 
Your motherl Or has becomewill be greatly ashamed,
She who gave you birthm Or has becomewill be humiliated.
Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
A wilderness, a parched land and a desert.
13 
“Because of the indignation of the LORD she will not be inhabited,
But she will be completely desolate;
Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified
And will hiss because of all her wounds.
14 
“Draw up your battle lines against Babylon on every side,
All you whon Lit tread (in order to string)bend the bow;
Shoot at her, do not be sparing with your arrows,
For she has sinned against the LORD.
15 
“Raise your battle cry against her on every side!
She has giveno Lit her handherself up, her pillars have fallen,
Her walls have been torn down.
For this is the vengeance of the LORD:
Take vengeance on her;
As she has done to others, so do to her.
16 
“Cut off the sower from Babylon
And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest;
From beforep Or the oppressing swordthe sword of the oppressor
They will each turn back to his own people
And they will each flee to his own land.
17 “Israel is a scatteredq Lit sheepflock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 18 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria. 19 And I will bring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and hisr Lit souldesire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead. 20 In those days and at that time,’ declares the LORD, ‘search will be made for the iniquity of Israel, but there will be none; and for the sins of Judah, but they will not be found; for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.’
21 
“Against the land ofs Or Double RebellionMerathaim, go up against it,
And against the inhabitants oft Or PunishmentPekod.
Slay andu Lit put under the banutterly destroy them,” declares the LORD,
“And do according to all that I have commanded you.
22 
“The noise of battle is in the land,
And great destruction.
23 
“How the hammer of the whole earth
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!
24 
“I set a snare for you and you were also caught, O Babylon,
While you yourself were not aware;
You have been found and also seized
Because you have engaged in conflict with the LORD.”
25 
The LORD has opened His armory
And has brought forth the weapons of His indignation,
For it is a work of the Lordv Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGOD of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
26 
Come to her from thew Lit endfarthest border;
Open up her barns,
Pile her up like heaps
Andx Lit put under the banutterly destroy her,
Let nothing be left to her.
27 
Put all her young bulls to the sword;
Let them go down to the slaughter!
Woe be upon them, for their day has come,
The time of their punishment.
28 
There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon,
To declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,
Vengeance for His temple.
29 
“Summony Another reading is archersmany against Babylon,
All those whoz Lit tread (in order to string)bend the bow:
Encamp against her on every side,
Let there be no escapeaa Some mss add to her.
Repay her according to her work;
According to all that she has done, so do to her;
For she has become arrogant against the LORD,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
30 
“Therefore her young men will fall in her streets,
And all her men of war will beab Or made lifeless or destroyedsilenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
31 
“Behold, I am against you, Oac Lit arrogancearrogant one,”
Declares the Lordad Heb YHWH, usually rendered LordGOD of hosts,
“For your day has come,
The timeae Another reading is of your punishmentwhen I will punish you.
32 
“Theaf Lit arrogancearrogant one will stumble and fall
With no one to raise him up;
And I will set fire to his cities
And it will devour all his environs.”
33 
Thus says the LORD of hosts,
“The sons of Israel are oppressed,
And the sons of Judah as well;
And all who took them captive have held them fast,
They have refused to let them go.
34 
“Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is His name;
He will vigorously plead their case
So that He may bring rest toag Or their landthe earth,
But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 
“A sword against the Chaldeans,” declares the LORD,
“And against the inhabitants of Babylon
And against her officials and her wise men!
36 
“A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools!
A sword against her mighty men, and they will beah Or dismayedshattered!
37 
“A sword againstai Lit histheir horses and againstaj Lit histheir chariots
And against all theak Lit mixed multitudeforeigners who are in the midst of her,
And they will become women!
A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!
38 
“Aal Another reading is sworddrought on her waters, and they will be dried up!
For it is a land of idols,
And they are mad over fearsome idols.
39 
“Therefore the desert creatures will live there along with the jackals;
The ostriches also will live in it,
And it will never again be inhabited
Or dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 
“As when God overthrew Sodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the LORD,
“No man will live there,
Nor will any son of man reside in it.
41 
“Behold, a people is coming from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.
42 
“They seize their bow and javelin;
They are cruel and have no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea;
And they ride on horses,
Marshalled like a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 
“The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,
And his hands hang limp;
Distress has gripped him,
Agony like a woman in childbirth.
44 “Behold, one will come up like a lion from theam Lit pridethicket of the Jordan toan Or an enduring habitationa perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand before Me?” 45 Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make theirao Or habitationpasture desolate because of them. 46 At theap Lit voiceshout, “Babylon has been seized!” the earth is shaken, and an outcry is heard among the nations.

Jeremiah, Chapter 51

1 Thus says the LORD:“Behold, I am going to arouse against Babylon
And against the inhabitants ofa Cryptic name for Chaldea; or the heart of those who rise up against MeLeb-kamai
b Or a destroying windThe spirit of a destroyer.
2“I will dispatchc Some versions read winnowersforeigners to Babylon that they may winnow her
And may devastate her land;
For on every side they will be opposed to her
In the day of her calamity.
3“d M.T. reads Against him whoLet note I.e. the Chaldean defenderhim whof Lit tread(s) (in order to string)bends his bowg Lit tread(s) (in order to string)bend it,
h M.T. reads Against him whoNor let him rise up in his scale-armor;
So do not spare her young men;
Devote all her army to destruction.
4“They will fall downi Or woundedslain in the land of the Chaldeans,
And pierced through in their streets.”
5 
For neither Israel nor Judah has beenj Lit widowedforsaken
By his God, the LORD of hosts,
Although their land is full of guilt
k Lit FromBefore the Holy One of Israel.
6 
Flee from the midst of Babylon,
And each of you save his life!
Do not bel Or silenced or made lifelessdestroyed in herm Or penalty for iniquitypunishment,
For this is the LORD’S time of vengeance;
He is going to render recompense to her.
7 
Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD,
Intoxicating all the earth.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
Therefore the nations are going mad.
8 
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
Wail over her!
Bringn Or balsam resinbalm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed.
9 
We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;
Forsake her and let us each go to his own country,
For her judgment has reached to heaven
Ando Lit is liftedtowers up to the very skies.
10 
The LORD has broughtp Lit forthabout our vindication;
Come and let us recount in Zion
The work of the LORD our God!
11 
Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!
The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes,
Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;
For it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.
12 
Lift up aq Or standardsignal against the walls of Babylon;
Post a strong guard,
Stationr Or watchmensentries,
Place men in ambush!
For the LORD has both purposed and performed
What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 
O you who dwell by many waters,
Abundant in treasures,
Your end has come,
Thes Lit cubitmeasure of yourt Lit being cut offend.
14 
The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself:
“Surely I will fill you with au Or mankindpopulation like locusts,
And they will cry out withv I.e. like the song of grape treadersshouts of victory over you.”
15 
It is He who made the earth by His power,
Who established the world by His wisdom,
And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.
16 
When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain
And brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
17 
All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by hisw Or graven imagesidols,
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.
18 
They are worthless, a work of mockery;
In the time of their punishment they will perish.
19 
The portion of Jacob is not like these;
For thex Lit FashionerMaker of all is He,
And of they Or Scepter; cf Num 24:17tribe of His inheritance;
The LORD of hosts is His name.
20 
He says, “You are Myz Lit shattererwar-club, My weapon of war;
And with you I shatter nations,
And with you I destroy kingdoms.
21 
“With you I shatter the horse and his rider,
And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,
22 
And with you I shatter man and woman,
And with you I shatter old man and youth,
And with you I shatter young man and virgin,
23 
And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,
And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,
And with you I shatter governors and prefects.
24 “But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares the LORD.
25 
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD,
“And I will stretch out My hand against you,
And roll you down from the crags,
And I will make you a burnt out mountain.
26 
“They will not take from you even a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for foundations,
But you will be desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
27 
Lift up aaa Or standardsignal in the land,
Blow a trumpet among the nations!
Consecrate the nations against her,
Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz;
Appoint a marshal against her,
Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
28 
Consecrate the nations against her,
The kings of the Medes,
ab Lit HerTheir governors and allac Lit Hertheirad I.e. lieutenant governorsprefects,
And every land ofae Lit histheir dominion.
29 
So the land quakes and writhes,
For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,
To make the land of Babylon
af Or An object of horrorA desolation without inhabitants.
30 
The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They stay in the strongholds;
Their strength isag Lit dried upexhausted,
They are becoming like women;
Their dwelling places are set on fire,
The bars of her gates are broken.
31 
Oneah Lit runnercourier runs to meetai Lit runneranother,
And oneaj Lit announcermessenger to meetak Lit announceranother,
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;
32 
The fords also have been seized,
And they have burned the marshes with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.
33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
At the timeal Lit of treading itit is stamped firm;
Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her.”
34 
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me,
He has set me down like an empty vessel;
He has swallowed me like a monster,
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
He has washed me away.
35 
“May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”
Theam Lit inhabitressinhabitant of Zion will say;
And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore thus says the LORD,“Behold, I am going to plead your case
And exact full vengeance for you;
And I will dry up heran Or broad riversea
And make her fountain dry.
37“Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
38“They will roar together like young lions,
They will growl like lions’ cubs.
39“When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant
And may sleep a perpetual sleep
And not wake up,” declares the LORD.
40“I will bring them down likeao Or young ramslambs to the slaughter,
Like rams together with male goats.
41 
“Howap Cryptic name for BabylonSheshak has been captured,
And the praise of the whole earth been seized!
How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
42 
“Theaq Or broad riversea has come up over Babylon;
She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
43 
“Her cities have become an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.
44 
“I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer stream to him.
Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
45 
“Come forth from her midst, My people,
And each of you save yourselves
From the fierce anger of the LORD.
46 
“Now so that your heart does not grow faint,
And you are not afraid at the report that will be heard in the land—
For the report will comear Lit in theone year,
And after thatas Lit theanother report inat Lit theanother year,
And violence will be in the land
With ruler against ruler—
47 
Therefore behold, days are coming
When I will punish the idols of Babylon;
And her whole land will be put to shame
And all her slain will fall in her midst.
48 
“Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
Will shout for joy over Babylon,
For the destroyers will come to her from the north,”
Declares the LORD.
49 
Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,
As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.
50 
You who have escaped the sword,
Depart! Do not stay!
Remember the LORD from afar,
And let Jerusalemau Lit come upon your heartcome to your mind.
51 
We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;
Disgrace has covered our faces,
For aliens have entered
The holy places of the LORD’S house.
52 
“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,
“When I will punish her idols,
And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.
53 
“Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens,
And though she should fortifyav Lit the height of her strengthher lofty stronghold,
From Me destroyers will come to her,” declares the LORD.
54 
The sound of an outcry from Babylon,
And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
55 
For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon,
And He will make her loudaw Or voicenoise vanish from her.
And their waves will roar like many waters;
The tumult of their voicesax Lit is givensounds forth.
56 
For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,
And her mighty men will be captured,
Their bows are shattered;
For the LORD is a God of recompense,
He will fully repay.
57 
“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men,
That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”
Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
58 Thus says the LORD of hosts,“The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed
And her high gates will be set on fire;
So the peoples will toil for nothing,
And the nations become exhausted only for fire.”
59 Theay Lit wordmessage which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.) 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a singleaz Or bookscroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon. 61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud, 62 and say, ‘You, O LORD, haveba Lit spokenpromised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it,bb Lit from man even to beastwhether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’ 63 And as soon as you finish reading thisbc Or bookscroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates, 64 and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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