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Judgment on Babylon and Its Final Fall (part 3)

Jeremiah 51:43-64

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Chapter 51
43 Her cities became a desolation, a land of thirst and a plain, a land—no man shall dwell in them, nor shall any man pass through them. 44 And I will visit upon Bel in Babel, and I will bring out his Bel from his mouth, and nations will not stream to him anymore; also the wall of Babel has fallen. 45 Go out from her midst, my people, and escape, each one his life from the burning of the anger of the LORD. 46 And lest your hearts quiver and you fear at the report that is heard in the land, and it comes in the year—the report—and after it in the year—the report—and violence in the land, ruler over ruler. 47 Therefore behold, days are coming, and I will visit the images of Babylon, and all its land will be ashamed, and all its slain ones will fall in her midst. 48 And shout for joy over Babel, heavens and earth and all that is in them, for destroyers will come to her from the north, utterance of the LORD. 49 Also Babel is for the falling of the slain of Israel; also to Babel have fallen the slain of all the earth. 50 You who escaped the sword, go; do not stand still. Remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come up upon your heart. 51 We are ashamed, for we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces, for foreigners have come into the sanctuaries of the house of the LORD. 52 Therefore behold, days are coming, says the LORD, and I will visit punishment upon its images, and in all the land the slain will groan. 53 For Babel ascends to the heavens, and if she fortifies her strong height, from me devastators will come to her, says the LORD. 54 A sound of outcry from Babylon! Great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! 55 For the LORD has devastated Babel and has destroyed from her a great voice, and their waves have roared like many waters; he has given uproar as their voice. 56 For a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babel; her mighty ones were captured, their bows were broken—for the LORD, the God of recompenses, will surely repay. 57 And I will make her nobles and her wise ones drunk, her governors and her officials and her mighty ones, and they will sleep a sleep of eternal age and not awake—oracle of the King, the LORD of heavenly hosts, his Name. 58 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The broad walls of Babel will totter; they will totter, and her exalted gates will be kindled in fire; and peoples will labor in vain, peoples in fire, and they will be weary. 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded concerning Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was a prince of rest. 60 And Jeremiah wrote all the evil that would come upon Babylon in one book, all these words written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon and see and read all these words," 62 And you shall say, "The LORD, you spoke concerning this place to cut it off, so that no inhabitant—man or beast—will be in it; it shall be desolations forever." 63 And it will be when you finish reading this book, you will tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates. 64 And you shall say, "Thus Babel will sink and not rise from the evil that I am bringing upon her," and they will be exhausted until here, the words of Jeremiah.