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Judgment on Babylon and Its Final Fall (part 2)

Jeremiah 50:45-51:42

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Chapter 50
45 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD which he has counseled against Babel and his plans which he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans: if he does not drag them away, the young of the flock; if he does not make their pasture desolate. 46 At the sound, Babel was seized; the earth was shaken, and a cry for deliverance among the nations was heard.
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Chapter 51
1 This is what the LORD says: Behold, I am rousing against Babel and against the dwellers of the heart facing the face of a destroying wind. 2 And I will send foreigners to Babylon, and they will winnow her, and they will empty her land, for they were around her on the day of calamity. 3 Let not tread the way of his bow, and let not act superiorly in his arrows, and let not spare his chosen ones; devote to destruction all his host. 4 And the slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the pierced in its streets. 5 For Israel is not widowed, and Judah not from his God, from the LORD of Hosts, for their land is full of guilt from the Holy One of Israel. 6 Flee from the midst of Babel and deliver each man his life force. Do not be silent in iniquity, for it is a time of vengeance to the LORD—Recompense it is; he repays it to her. 7 A golden cup, Babel, in the hand of the LORD, making all the earth drunk from her wine; nations drank. Upon this the nations will glory themselves. 8 Suddenly Babel has fallen and she is broken. Howl over her! Take balsam for her pain; perhaps she will be healed. 9 We healed Babel, but she was not healed. We abandoned her and let us go, each man to his land, for her justice has reached to the heavens and has been borne up as far as the skies. 10 The LORD has brought out our righteousness with it, and we will declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 11 Sharpen the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has roused the spirit of the kings of Madai, for upon Babel his purpose is to destroy it, for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. 12 Raise a standard against the wall of Babel, strengthen the watch, set up guards, prepare ambushers—for even the LORD has plotted, even he has done what he spoke to the inhabitants of Babel. 13 You who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures—your end has come; the measure of your covetousness. 14 The LORD of Hosts has sworn by his vital life force: "If I do not fill you with Adam/humanity like locusts, and they groan over you with a shout." 15 He made the earth by his power; he established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens. 16 At the voice of his giving a multitude of waters in the heavens, he causes clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and he brings forth wind from his treasuries. 17 Every human is brutish in knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by an idol, for his molten image is a lie, and there is no spirit in them. 18 They are vanity, the work of delusions. At the time of their visitation they will perish. 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Former of all, the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Hosts is his name. 20 "A shatterer—you are to me, a weapon of warfare. And I will shatter nations with you, and I will destroy kingdoms with you." 21 And I will shatter with you horse and its rider, and I will shatter with you chariot and its rider. 22 And I will dash in pieces with you man and woman, and I will dash in pieces with you elder and boy, and I will dash in pieces with you young man and virgin. 23 And I will dash in pieces with you evil and its flock, and I will dash in pieces with you farmer and his yoke, and I will dash in pieces with you governors and officials. 24 And I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of the Chaldeans all their evil that they did in Zion before your eyes, says the LORD. 25 Behold, you mountain of destruction—utterance of the LORD—the one destroying all the earth! And I stretched out my hand against you and rolled you from the rocks and gave you as a mountain of burning. 26 And they will not take from you a stone for a cornerstone or a stone for foundations, for you will be desolations of eternity—utterance of the LORD. 27 Raise a banner in the land; blow the ram's horn among the nations; consecrate nations against her; make kingdoms hear against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz—muster against her a tiphsar; bring up horses like bristling locusts. 28 Sanctify against her the nations, the kings of Madai, her governors and all her deputies and all the earth of his rule. 29 And the earth quaked and writhed, for the thoughts of the LORD have arisen against Babel to set the land of Babel to desolation, without inhabitant. 30 Babylon's mighty ones have ceased to fight; they sit in strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; they have set fire to her tabernacles; her bars are broken. 31 Runner meets runner and runs, and herald meets herald to tell the king of Babel that his city has been captured from end to end. 32 The fords have been seized, the ponds they have burned with fire, and the men of war have been dismayed. 33 For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time of treading it; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest will come. 34 He ate me, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel; he set me out as an empty vessel, he swallowed me like a sea monster, he filled his flesh from me, he cast me down. 35 My violence and my remnant—upon Babel you will say, O inhabitant of Zion, and my blood—upon the inhabitants of the Chaldeans you will say, O Jerusalem. 36 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I—I will conduct the legal dispute for your legal dispute, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will desolate her sea, and I will dry up her spring. 37 And Babylon will be heaps of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an empty desolation. 38 Together like cultic villages they will roar; they rouse their roaring like cubs of lions. 39 In their heat I will set their drinks, and I will make them drunk so that they exult and sleep an eternal sleep and not awake—oracle of the LORD. 40 I will bring them down like rams to the slaughter, like rams with sacrificial animals prepared for slaughter. 41 How Sheshach was captured, how she was seized, the praise of all the earth! How Babel has become a desolation among the nations! 42 The sea has gone up over Babel. In the multitude of its waves it has covered it.