Jeremiah 51

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, aa destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon bfanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: cfor in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, dand they that are thrust through in her streets.

5 eFor Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 6 fFlee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; ghe will render unto her a recompence. 7 hBabylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the inations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations jare mad. 8 Babylon is suddenly mfallen and destroyed: lhowl for her; ktake balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and nlet us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. 10 The LORD hath obrought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: pthe LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. 12 qSet up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 rO thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

14 tThe LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, sas with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. 15 uHe hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and vhath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. 16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and whe causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: xfor his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18 yThey are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19 zThe portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

20 aThou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces bold and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 24 cAnd I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. 25 Behold, I am against thee, 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, eand will make thee a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

27 hSet ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, gprepare the nations against her, call together against her fthe kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, ito make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; jthey became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; kher bars are broken. 31 lOne post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is mlike a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and nthe time of her harvest shall come. 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath odevoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, pI will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; qand I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. 37 rAnd Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, san astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. 39 tIn their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. 41 How is uSheshach taken! and how is vthe praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! 42 wThe sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. 44 xAnd I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45 yMy people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear zfor the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 48 Then athe heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: bfor the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD. 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. 50 cYe that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51 dWe are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan. 53 eThough Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. 54 fA sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: 55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: gfor the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite. 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith hthe King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and ithe people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that jnone shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, kthat thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 52

 
Cross Ref
1 a 2 Kin 19:7
Jer 4:11
2 b Jer 15:7
 c Jer 50:14
4 d Jer 49:26
5 e Psa 94:14
Zec 1:15
6 f Rev 18:4
 g Jer 25:14
7 h Rev 17:4
 i Rev 14:8
 j Jer 25:16
8 k Jer 46:11
 l Rev 18:9
 m Rev 14:8
1 The 5:2
Isa 21:9
9 n Isa 13:14
Jer 46:16
10 o Psa 37:6
11 p Isa 13:17
12 q Nah 2:1
13 r Rev 17:1
14 s Nah 3:15
 t Jer 49:13
15 u Gen 1:1
Psa 149:5-6
Isa 40:26
Act 14:15
Col 1:16-17
Heb 1:2-3
 v Job 9:8
16 w Psa 135:7
17 x Jer 50:2
18 y Jon 2:8
19 z Lam 3:24
Jer 10:16
Psa 73:26
Psa 16:5
20 a Isa 10:5
Jer 50:23
22 b 2 Chr 36:17
24 c Jer 50:15-16
25 d Isa 13:2
Zec 4:7
 e Rev 8:8
27 f Jer 50:41
 g Jer 25:14
 h Isa 13:2
29 i Jer 50:13
30 j Isa 19:16
 k Lam 2:9
Amo 1:5
31 l Jer 50:24
33 m Isa 21:10
 n Joe 3:13
Mat 13:30
34 o Jer 24
2 Chr 36:9-10
36 p Zec 1:15
 q Jer 50:38
37 r Isa 13:22
 s 2 Chr 29:8
Jer 18:16
39 t Dan 5:1
Dan 5:30
41 u Jer 25:26
 v Isa 13:19
Jer 49:25
Dan 4:30
42 w Isa 8:7-8
44 x Jer 50:2
45 y Rev 18:4
46 z 2 Kin 19:7
48 a Isa 44:23
 b Jer 50:3
50 c Jer 44:28
51 d Psa 44:15
53 e Jer 49:16
Amo 9:2
54 f Zep 1:10
Jer 50:22
Isa 15:5
Isa 13:6-9
56 g Deu 32:35
Psa 94:1
Isa 34:8
57 h Jer 46:18
Jer 48:15
58 i Hab 2:13
62 j Jer 50:3
Jer 50:39
63 k Rev 18:21