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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;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Against <i>him that</i> bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against <i>him that</i> lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and <i>they that are</i> thrust through in her streets.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For Israel <i>hath</i> not <i>been</i> forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this <i>is</i> the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Babylon <i>hath been</i> 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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 <i>even</i> to the skies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device <i>is</i> against Babylon, to destroy it; because it <i>is</i> the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, <i>and</i> the measure of thy covetousness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, <i>saying</i>, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.</p> <p class="hdg">Song of Praise</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When he uttereth <i>his</i> voice, <i>there is</i> 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Every man is brutish by <i>his</i> knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image <i>is</i> falsehood, and <i>there is</i> no breath in them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They <i>are</i> vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The portion of Jacob <i>is</i> not like them; for he <i>is</i> the former of all things: and <i>Israel is</i> the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts <i>is</i> his name.</p> <p class="hdg">Babylon's Punishment</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Thou <i>art</i> my battle axe <i>and</i> weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Behold, I <i>am</i> 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in <i>their</i> holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>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 <i>one</i> end,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon <i>is</i> like a threshingfloor, <i>it is</i> time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The violence done to me and to my flesh <i>be</i> upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth <i>any</i> son of man pass thereby.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Instructions for the Exiles</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come <i>one</i> year, and after that in <i>another</i> year <i>shall come</i> a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Then the heaven and the earth, and all that <i>is</i> therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>As Babylon <i>hath caused</i> the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, <i>yet</i> from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>A sound of a cry <i>cometh</i> from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>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:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>Because the spoiler is come upon her, <i>even</i> upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise <i>men</i>, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name <i>is</i> the LORD of hosts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Jeremiah's Prophecy to Seraiah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>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 <i>this</i> Seraiah <i>was</i> a quiet prince. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-60.htm"><b>60</b></a></span>So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, <i>even</i> all these words that are written against Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-61.htm"><b>61</b></a></span>And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-62.htm"><b>62</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-63.htm"><b>63</b></a></span>And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, <i>that</i> thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-64.htm"><b>64</b></a></span>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. 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