Jeremiah 51
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.
Utterly destroy all her army!
and thrust through in her streets.
though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
He will render to her a recompense.
therefore the nations have gone mad.
Perhaps she may be healed.
and is lifted up even to the skies.
come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
the vengeance of his temple.
that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
and they will lift up a shout against you.’
By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
and there is no breath in them.
In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
Yahweh of Armies is his name.
With you I will destroy kingdoms.
the horse and his rider.
the young man and the virgin.
governors and deputies.
“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
and will make you a burned mountain.
but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Her bars are broken.
to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
The men of war are frightened.”
Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
He has cast me out.
will Jerusalem say.
and make her fountain dry.
without inhabitant.
They will growl as lions’ cubs.
and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
like rams with male goats.
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
No son of man passes by it.
Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
ruler against ruler.
All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
and through all her land the wounded will groan.
yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
The noise of their voice is uttered.
He will surely repay.
says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
and they will be weary.”
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’
It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.