Jeremiah 51:24–45

24  bAnd I will render unto Babylon

And to all the inhabitants of Chaldea

cAll their evil that they have done in Zion

In your sight, saith the Lord.

25  Behold, I am against thee, dO 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 ea burnt mountain.

26  And they shall not take of thee fa stone for a corner,

Nor a stone for foundations;

But thou shalt be †desolate for ever, saith the Lord.

27  gSet ye up a standard in the land,

hBlow the trumpet among the nations,

iPrepare kthe nations against her,

Call together against her lthe kingdoms of mArarat, nMinni, and oAshchenaz;

Appoint a pcaptain against her;

Cause the horses to come up as the rough qcaterpillers.

28  iPrepare against her kthe nations with rthe kings of the Medes,

aThe captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof,

And all sthe land of his dominion.

29  And tthe land shall tremble and sorrow:

For uevery purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,

To make the land of Babylon va desolation

wWithout an inhabitant.

30  The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight,

They have remained in their holds:

Their might hath failed; xthey became as women:

yThey have burned her dwellingplaces;

zaHer bars aare broken.

31  One bpost shall run to meet another,

And one messenger to meet another,

To shew the king of Babylon

That his city is taken cat one end,

32  And that dthe passages eare stopped,

And fthe 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 glike a threshingfloor,

gh||It is time to thresh her:

Yet a little while, and ithe time of her harvest shall come.

34  Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon jhath devoured me, he hath crushed me,

He hath made me an empty vessel,

kHe hath swallowed me up like la dragon,

He hath filled his belly with my delicates,

mHe 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, nI will plead thy cause,

And take vengeance for thee;

And doI will dry up pher sea,

And qmake her springs dry.

37  And Babylon shall become rheaps,

sA dwellingplace for ssdragons,

tAn astonishment, and tan hissing,

uWithout an inhabitant.

38  vThey shall roar together like lions:

They shall ||yell as wlions’ whelps.

39  In their heat xI will make their feasts,

And yzI will make them drunken, that they may rejoice,

yAnd asleep a perpetual sleep,

yAnd not wake, saith the Lord.

40  I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,

Like rams with bhe goats.

41  How is cSheshach taken!

And how is dthe praise of the whole earth esurprised!

How is Babylon become fan astonishment among the nations!

42  gThe sea is come up upon Babylon:

She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

43  Her cities are fa desolation,

hA dry land, and ha wilderness,

iA land wherein no man dwelleth,

Neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

44  And I will punish kBel in Babylon,

And I will bring forth out of his mouth lthat which he hath swallowed up:

And the nations shall not mflow together any more unto him:

Yea, nthe wall of Babylon shall fall.

45  oMy people, go ye out of the midst of her,

And odeliver ye every man his soul

pFrom the fierce anger of the Lord.