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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/50.htm" title="Jeremiah 50">&#9668;</a> Jeremiah 51 <a href="../jeremiah/52.htm" title="Jeremiah 52">&#9658;</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <p class="top-1 chapter-2"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">I am going to stir up a destructive wind<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NRSVCE-24100a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt;]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text">against Babylon</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NRSVCE-24100b&quot; title=&quot;See footnote b&quot;&gt;b&lt;/a&gt;]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>and I will send winnowers to Babylon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and they shall winnow her.</span></span><br /><span class="text">They shall empty her land</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">when they come against her from every side</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">on the day of trouble.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Let not the archer bend his bow,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and let him not array himself in his coat of mail.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Do not spare her young men;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">utterly destroy her entire army.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and wounded in her streets.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Israel and Judah have not been forsaken</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">by their God, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts,</span></span><br /><span class="text">though their land is full of guilt</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">before the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Flee from the midst of Babylon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">save your lives, each of you!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Do not perish because of her guilt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">for this is the time of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>&#8217;s vengeance;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">he is repaying her what is due.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Babylon was a golden cup in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>&#8217;s hand,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">making all the earth drunken;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the nations drank of her wine,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and so the nations went mad.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Suddenly Babylon has fallen and is shattered;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">wail for her!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Bring balm for her wound;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">perhaps she may be healed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>We tried to heal Babylon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">but she could not be healed.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Forsake her, and let each of us go</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">to our own country;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for her judgment has reached up to heaven</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and has been lifted up even to the skies.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has brought forth our vindication;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">come, let us declare in Zion</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the work of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> our God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Sharpen the arrows!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">Fill the quivers!</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none"><span class="text">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, vengeance for his temple.</span></p> <div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Raise a standard against the walls of Babylon;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">make the watch strong;</span></span><br /><span class="text">post sentinels;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">prepare the ambushes;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has both planned and done</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You who live by mighty waters,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">rich in treasures,</span></span><br /><span class="text">your end has come,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the thread of your life is cut.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts has sworn by himself:</span><br /><span class="text">Surely I will fill you with troops like a swarm of locusts,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and they shall raise a shout of victory over you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>It is he who made the earth by his power,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">who established the world by his wisdom,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.</span></span><br /><span class="text">He makes lightnings for the rain,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Everyone is stupid and without knowledge;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for their images are false,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and there is no breath in them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>They are worthless, a work of delusion;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">at the time of their punishment they shall perish.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Not like these is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NRSVCE-24118c&quot; title=&quot;See footnote c&quot;&gt;c&lt;/a&gt;]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> the portion of Jacob,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">for he is the one who formed all things,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts is his name.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Israel the Creator&#8217;s Instrument</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>You are my war club, my weapon of battle:</span><br /><span class="text">with you I smash nations;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">with you I destroy kingdoms;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>with you I smash the horse and its rider;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>with you I smash man and woman;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">with you I smash the old man and the boy;</span></span><br /><span class="text">with you I smash the young man and the girl;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>with you I smash shepherds and their flocks;</span></span><br /><span class="text">with you I smash farmers and their teams;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">with you I smash governors and deputies.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Doom of Babylon</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>I am against you, O destroying mountain,</span><br /><span class="right"><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">that destroys the whole earth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will stretch out my hand against you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and roll you down from the crags,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and make you a burned-out mountain.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>No stone shall be taken from you for a corner</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and no stone for a foundation,</span></span><br /><span class="text">but you shall be a perpetual waste,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Raise a standard in the land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">blow the trumpet among the nations;</span></span><br /><span class="text">prepare the nations for war against her,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">summon against her the kingdoms,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;</span></span><br /><span class="text">appoint a marshal against her,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">bring up horses like bristling locusts.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Prepare the nations for war against her,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and every land under their dominion.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>The land trembles and writhes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>&#8217;s purposes against Babylon stand,</span></span><br /><span class="text">to make the land of Babylon a desolation,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">without inhabitant.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">they remain in their strongholds;</span></span><br /><span class="text">their strength has failed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">they have become women;</span></span><br /><span class="text">her buildings are set on fire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">her bars are broken.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>One runner runs to meet another,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and one messenger to meet another,</span></span><br /><span class="text">to tell the king of Babylon</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">that his city is taken from end to end:</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>the fords have been seized,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the marshes have been burned with fire,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and the soldiers are in panic.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>For thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel:</span><br /><span class="text">Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">at the time when it is trodden;</span></span><br /><span class="text">yet a little while</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and the time of her harvest will come.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>&#8220;King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has devoured me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">he has crushed me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">he has made me an empty vessel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">he has swallowed me like a monster;</span></span><br /><span class="text">he has filled his belly with my delicacies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">he has spewed me out.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>May my torn flesh be avenged on Babylon,&#8221;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the inhabitants of Zion shall say.</span></span><br /><span class="text">&#8220;May my blood be avenged on the inhabitants of Chaldea,&#8221;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">Jerusalem shall say.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Therefore thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">I am going to defend your cause</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and take vengeance for you.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will dry up her sea</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and make her fountain dry;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">a den of jackals,</span></span><br /><span class="text">an object of horror and of hissing,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">without inhabitant.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>Like lions they shall roar together;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">they shall growl like lions&#8217; whelps.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and make them drunk, until they become merry</span></span><br /><span class="text">and then sleep a perpetual sleep</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and never wake, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">like rams and goats.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>How Sheshach<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NRSVCE-24140d&quot; title=&quot;See footnote d&quot;&gt;d&lt;/a&gt;]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> is taken,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the pride of the whole earth seized!</span></span><br /><span class="text">How Babylon has become</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">an object of horror among the nations!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>The sea has risen over Babylon;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>Her cities have become an object of horror,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">a land of drought and a desert,</span></span><br /><span class="text">a land in which no one lives,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and through which no mortal passes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>I will punish Bel in Babylon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and make him disgorge what he has swallowed.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The nations shall no longer stream to him;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the wall of Babylon has fallen.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">45</span>Come out of her, my people!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">Save your lives, each of you,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">from the fierce anger of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">46</span>Do not be fainthearted or fearful</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">at the rumors heard in the land&#8212;</span></span><br /><span class="text">one year one rumor comes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the next year another,</span></span><br /><span class="text">rumors of violence in the land</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and of ruler against ruler.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">47</span>Assuredly, the days are coming</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">when I will punish the images of Babylon;</span></span><br /><span class="text">her whole land shall be put to shame,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and all her slain shall fall in her midst.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">48 </span>Then the heavens and the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and all that is in them,</span></span><br /><span class="text">shall shout for joy over Babylon;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north,</span></span><br /><span class="right"><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">49 </span>Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">50 </span>You survivors of the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">go, do not linger!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Remember the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> in a distant land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and let Jerusalem come into your mind:</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">51 </span>We are put to shame, for we have heard insults;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">dishonor has covered our face,</span></span><br /><span class="text">for aliens have come</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">into the holy places of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>&#8217;s house.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">52 </span>Therefore the time is surely coming, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">when I will punish her idols,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and through all her land</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the wounded shall groan.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">53 </span>Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and though she should fortify her strong height,</span></span><br /><span class="text">from me destroyers would come upon her,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">54 </span>Listen!&#8212;a cry from Babylon!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">A great crashing from the land of the Chaldeans!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">55 </span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is laying Babylon waste,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and stilling her loud clamor.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Their waves roar like mighty waters,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">the sound of their clamor resounds;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">56 </span>for a destroyer has come against her,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">against Babylon;</span></span><br /><span class="text">her warriors are taken,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">their bows are broken;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is a God of recompense,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">he will repay in full.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">57 </span>I will make her officials and her sages drunk,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">says the King, whose name is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">58 </span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts:</span><br /><span class="text">The broad wall of Babylon</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">shall be leveled to the ground,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and her high gates</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">shall be burned with fire.</span></span><br /><span class="text">The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text">and the nations weary themselves only for fire.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NRSVCE-24157e&quot; title=&quot;See footnote e&quot;&gt;e&lt;/a&gt;]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Jeremiah&#8217;s Command to Seraiah</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">59 </span>The word that the prophet Jeremiah commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, when he went with King Zedekiah of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">60 </span>Jeremiah wrote in a<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NRSVCE-24159f&quot; title=&quot;See footnote f&quot;&gt;f&lt;/a&gt;]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> scroll all the disasters that would come on Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">61 </span>And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: &#8220;When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">62 </span>and say, &#8216;O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you yourself threatened to destroy this place so that neither human beings nor animals shall live in it, and it shall be desolate forever.&#8217; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">63 </span>When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">64 </span>and say, &#8216;Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.&#8217;&#8221;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NRSVCE-24163g&quot; title=&quot;See footnote g&quot;&gt;g&lt;/a&gt;]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span></p><p><span class="text">Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 51:1">Jeremiah 51:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>stir up the spirit of a destroyer</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 51:1">Jeremiah 51:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Leb-qamai</i> is a cryptogram for <i>Kasdim</i>, Chaldea</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 51:19">Jeremiah 51:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb lacks <i>the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span></i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 51:41">Jeremiah 51:41</a> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Sheshach</i> is a cryptogram for <i>Babel</i>, Babylon</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 51:58">Jeremiah 51:58</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Compare Hab 2.13: Heb <i>and the nations for fire, and they are weary</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 51:60">Jeremiah 51:60</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>one</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jeremiah 51:64">Jeremiah 51:64</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>on her. 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