Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
This
is
what
the LORD says:
“
Behold, I will stir
up against Babylon and against the
people
of
Leb-kamai
the spirit
of a destroyer.
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,
a destroying
wind;
I
will send strangers
to
Babylon to
winnow
her and empty her land ;
for they
will
come
against
her
from
every
side
in her
day of disaster
.
And
will send unto
Babylon fanners,
that
shall
fan
her ,
and shall
empty her land :
for in the
day of trouble
they
shall
be
against
her
round
about
.
Do
not
let the archer bend his bow or
put
on
his armor.
Do
not
spare her young men; devote
all her army
to
destruction!
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.
And
they
will
fall
slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced
through in her streets.
Thus
the
slain shall
fall
in the land of the Chaldeans, and they
that
are
thrust
through in her streets.
For Israel and
Judah
have
not been abandoned
by
their
God, the LORD of Hosts ,
though their land is
full
of
guilt
before
the Holy One of Israel. ”
For 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.
Flee from
Babylon !
Escape
with
your
lives!
Do
not
be destroyed
in her punishment.
For this is the time of the LORD’s
vengeance; He will pay
her what
she
deserves
.
Flee 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; he will render
unto
her a
recompence
.
Babylon was
a gold
cup in the hand of
the
LORD
, making
the whole
earth drunk.
The nations drank
her wine; therefore the nations have
gone
mad.
Babylon hath
been
a golden
cup in the LORD's
hand, that
made
all
the earth drunken:
the nations have
drunken
of
her wine; therefore the nations are
mad.
Suddenly
Babylon has
fallen and been
shattered.
Wail
for her; get
her
balm for her pain ;
perhaps
she can
be healed.
Babylon is
suddenly
fallen and destroyed:
howl
for her; take
balm for her pain ,
if
so
be
she may
be healed.
“
We tried
to
heal
Babylon, but she could
not be
healed .
Abandon
her !
Let each
of
us go to
his own land,
for her judgment extends
to
the
sky
and reaches
to the clouds
. ”
We would
have
healed
Babylon, but she is
not healed :
forsake
her ,
and
let us go every
one
into
his own country:
for her judgment reacheth
unto
heaven,
and is
lifted
up
even
to the skies
.
“
The LORD has
brought forth our vindication;
come, let us tell
in Zion what
the LORD our God has
accomplished
. ”
The LORD hath
brought forth our righteousness:
come, and
let us declare
in Zion the work
of
the
LORD our God.
Sharpen
the arrows !
Fill
the quivers!
The LORD has
aroused
the spirit of the kings of the Medes ,
because
His plan
is aimed
at
Babylon to destroy her,
for
it is the vengeance of the LORD —
vengeance for
His temple.
Make
bright
the arrows ;
gather
the shields:
the 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.
Raise
a
banner
against
the walls of Babylon ;
post
the guard;
station
the watchmen ;
prepare the ambush.
For the LORD has
both devised and accomplished
what
He spoke
against the people
of Babylon.
Set
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.
You
who
dwell
by
many waters, rich
in treasures, your
end has
come ;
the thread
of your
life
is
cut
.
O
thou
that
dwellest
upon
many waters, abundant
in treasures, thine
end is
come ,
and
the measure
of thy
covetousness
.
The LORD of Hosts has
sworn by Himself :
“
Surely I will fill you
up
with men as with locusts,
and they will
shout in
triumph
over
you
. ”
The LORD of hosts hath
sworn by himself ,
saying,
Surely I will fill thee
with men ,
as with caterpillers;
and they shall
lift
up
a
shout against
thee
.
The
LORD
made the earth by His power ;
He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens
by His understanding.
He
hath
made the earth by his power ,
he hath
established the world by his wisdom ,
and hath
stretched out the heaven
by his understanding.
When He thunders
, the
waters in the heavens roar
; He causes
the clouds
to rise
from the ends of the earth .
He generates
the
lightning
with the
rain and brings
forth the wind from
His storehouses
.
When he uttereth
his
voice
, there
is
a
multitude
of
waters in the heavens; and
he 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
.
Every man is senseless
and
devoid
of
knowledge; every goldsmith
is put
to
shame
by his
idols.
For his molten images
are
a
fraud
, and there is no breath in them.
Every man is brutish
by
his
knowledge; every founder
is confounded
by the
graven
image:
for his molten image
is
falsehood
, and there is no breath in them.
They are worthless
, a
work to
be
mocked.
In the time of their punishment
they will
perish.
They are vanity
, the
work of
errors:
in the time of their visitation
they shall
perish.
The Portion of Jacob is not like these,
for He is the Maker
of all things ,
and of
the tribe
of His inheritance —
the LORD of Hosts is His name.
The 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.
“You
are
My war club,
My
weapon
for battle.
With you
I shatter
nations ;
with you
I bring
kingdoms to
ruin.
Thou
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 ;
With you
I shatter
the horse and rider; with you
I shatter
the chariot and driver.
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;
With you
I shatter
man and woman; with you
I shatter
the
old man
and the
youth
; with you
I shatter
the young man and the maiden.
With thee
also
will
I break
in
pieces
man and woman; and
with thee
will
I break
in
pieces
old and young
; and
with thee
will
I break
in
pieces
the young man and the maid;
With
you
I shatter
the shepherd and his flock; with you
I shatter
the farmer
and his oxen; with you
I shatter
the
governors
and officials
.
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
.
Before
your
very
eyes
I will repay
Babylon and all the dwellers
of Chaldea for
all the
evil they have done in Zion, ”
declares
the LORD.
And
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.
“
Behold, I am against you
, O destroying mountain, you
who
devastate
the whole
earth
, declares
the LORD.
I will stretch out My
hand against
you;
I
will
roll you
over
the cliffs
and turn
you
into
a charred
mountain.
Behold, I am against thee
, O 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
a burnt
mountain.
No
one
shall retrieve
from
you
a
cornerstone
or
a foundation
stone, because
you
will
become
desolate forever
, ”
declares
the LORD.
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.
“Raise
a banner
in the land !
Blow the ram’s
horn
among the nations !
Prepare the nations against her .
Summon
the
kingdoms
against her —
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a captain against her; bring
up
horses like
swarming
locusts
.
Set
ye
up
a standard
in the land ,
blow the trumpet
among the nations ,
prepare the nations against her ,
call
together
against her the
kingdoms
of
Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;
appoint a captain against her; cause
the
horses to
come
up
as
the
rough
caterpillers
.
Prepare the
nations
for
battle
against her —
the kings of the Medes, their
governors
and all their
officials
, and all the lands
they
rule
.
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
.
The earth
quakes
and writhes
because
the LORD’s
intentions
against Babylon stand:
to make the land of Babylon a desolation ,
without inhabitant.
And
the land
shall
tremble
and sorrow:
for
every
purpose
of
the LORD
shall
be
performed
against Babylon ,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an
inhabitant.
The warriors
of Babylon have stopped
fighting;
they sit
in their strongholds.
Their strength
is
exhausted
; they have
become
like
women .
Babylon’s
homes
have been
set
ablaze,
the
bars
of
her gates
are broken.
The mighty
men
of Babylon have forborn
to
fight,
they have
remained
in their holds:
their might
hath
failed
; they became
as
women :
they
have burned
her dwellingplaces;
her
bars
are broken.
One courier
races
to meet another, and messenger
follows
messenger ,
to announce
to the king of Babylon that his city has
been
captured
from
end
to
end .
One 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 ,
The fords
have
been
seized
, the marshes
set
on
fire, and the soldiers
are terrified
. ”
And
that
the passages
are
stopped
, and
the reeds
they
have
burned
with
fire, and the men
of
war
are affrighted
.
For this
is
what
the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel ,
says:
“
The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing
floor
at
the
time
it is trampled.
In
just
a little while her harvest time
will
come. ”
For thus
saith
the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel ;
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor,
it is time
to
thresh
her:
yet
a little while ,
and
the
time
of
her harvest shall
come.
“Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon has
devoured me ;
he has
crushed me .
He has
set
me aside
like
an empty vessel ;
he has
swallowed me like a monster;
he filled his belly with my delicacies
and
vomited
me out.
Nebuchadrezzar
the
king of Babylon hath
devoured 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.
May
the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, ”
says
the dweller
of Zion .
“May
my blood be
on
the dwellers
of Chaldea, ”
says
Jerusalem.
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
.
Therefore this
is
what
the LORD says:
“
Behold, I will plead your
case
and take vengeance on
your
behalf
; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run
dry.
Therefore thus
saith
the LORD ;
Behold, I will plead thy
cause,
and take vengeance for
thee
; and
I will dry up her sea ,
and make her springs dry.
Babylon will
become a
heap
of
rubble
, a haunt
for jackals
, an object
of
horror
and scorn
, without inhabitant.
And
Babylon shall
become heaps
, a dwellingplace
for dragons
, an astonishment,
and an
hissing
, without an
inhabitant.
They will
roar together like young
lions ;
they will
growl
like
lion
cubs
.
They shall
roar together like lions :
they shall
yell
as
lions'
whelps
.
While
they
are
flushed
with
heat ,
I will serve
them
a
feast
, and I will make them drunk
so
that they may revel;
then
they
will
fall
asleep
forever
and never
wake up
, declares
the LORD.
In
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.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male
goats.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he
goats.
How Sheshach has
been
captured
! The praise of all
the earth has
been
seized.
What
a
horror
Babylon has
become among the nations!
How is
Sheshach taken
! and
how
is
the praise of the whole
earth surprised!
how
is
Babylon become an
astonishment
among the nations!
The sea has
come up over
Babylon ;
she is covered in
turbulent
waves.
The sea is
come up upon
Babylon :
she is covered with
the
multitude
of
the
waves thereof
.
Her cities have
become
a desolation, a dry and
arid
land, a land where
no one
lives
, where
no
son of man passes
through
.
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
.
I will punish Bel in Babylon .
I will make
him
spew
out what
he swallowed .
The nations will
no
longer
stream
to
him ;
even
the wall of Babylon will
fall.
And
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.
Come
out
of
her,
My people !
Save
your
lives
, each
of you
, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
My people, go
ye
out
of the
midst
of
her
, and
deliver
ye
every
man
his
soul
from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Do
not
let
your heart grow
faint, and do
not
be
afraid
when
the rumor
is
heard in the land; for
a rumor
will
come one year —
and then
another the
next
year —
of
violence in the land and
of
ruler against ruler.
And
lest
your heart faint, and ye
fear
for
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.
Therefore, behold, the days are
coming
when
I will punish
the idols
of Babylon .
Her entire
land will
suffer
shame
, and all her slain will
lie
fallen
within
her.
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.
Then heaven and earth and all that is in
them
will
shout
for joy
over
Babylon because
the destroyers
from the north will
come
against
her
, ”
declares
the LORD.
Then the
heaven and the
earth ,
and all that is therein,
shall
sing
for Babylon :
for
the spoilers
shall
come
unto
her
from the north, saith
the LORD.
“
Babylon must
fall
on
account
of
the slain of Israel, just
as
the slain of all the earth have
fallen
because
of
Babylon
.
As
Babylon hath
caused
the slain of Israel to
fall
, so
at
Babylon
shall
fall
the slain of all the earth.
You
who
have escaped the sword, depart
and
do
not linger!
Remember the LORD from
far
away
, and let Jerusalem come to
mind. ”
Ye
that
have escaped the sword, go
away,
stand
not still:
remember the LORD afar
off
, and let Jerusalem come into
your
mind.
“
We are ashamed
because we have heard reproach ;
disgrace
has
covered our faces ,
because
foreigners
have
entered
the holy
places
of the LORD’s
house. ”
We are confounded,
because we have heard reproach :
shame
hath
covered our faces :
for
strangers
are
come
into
the sanctuaries
of the LORD's
house.
“Therefore
, behold, the days are
coming
, ”
declares
the LORD, “when
I will punish
her idols,
and throughout
her land the wounded will
groan.
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.
Even
if
Babylon ascends
to the
heavens
and fortifies
her lofty
stronghold
, the
destroyers
I
send
will
come against
her, ”
declares
the LORD.
Though
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.
“The
sound of a cry comes
from Babylon, the
sound
of
great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans !
A
sound of a cry cometh
from Babylon, and
great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans :
For
the LORD will
destroy
Babylon ;
He
will
silence
her mighty
voice.
The waves will
roar like great waters ;
the
tumult
of their voices
will
resound.
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:
For
a
destroyer
is coming
against
her —
against
Babylon .
Her
warriors
will
be
captured
, and their bows will
be
broken ,
for the LORD is
a
God of retribution;
He
will
repay
in
full
.
Because
the
spoiler
is come
upon
her ,
even
upon
Babylon, and her
mighty
men
are
taken,
every
one
of
their bows is
broken :
for the LORD God of recompences
shall
surely
requite
.
I will make her princes and wise men drunk
, along
with
her governors
, officials
, and warriors.
Then
they will
fall
asleep
forever
and not wake up
, ”
declares
the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
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
the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
This
is
what
the LORD of Hosts says:
“Babylon’s
thick
walls will
be leveled
, and her high gates consumed
by
fire .
So
the
labor
of
the people will
be
for
nothing;
the nations
will
exhaust
themselves
to
fuel
the flames
. ”
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
the people shall
labour
in
vain,
and
the folk
in
the fire,
and
they
shall
be
weary
.
This
is
the message
that
Jeremiah the prophet gave
to
the
quartermaster
Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah
, when he went to
Babylon
with King
Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s
reign.
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.
Jeremiah had
written
on
a single
scroll
about
all the disaster
that would
come upon Babylon —
all these words that had
been
written concerning
Babylon.
So
Jeremiah wrote
in
a book
all the evil
that should
come upon Babylon ,
even
all these words that are
written against
Babylon.
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “
When you
get
to Babylon, see that
you
read all these words aloud,
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou
comest
to Babylon, and
shalt
see ,
and
shalt
read all these words ;
and
say, ‘
O LORD, You
have
promised
to cut off this
place
so
that no
one
will
remain —
neither man nor beast .
Indeed
, it will
be desolate forever
. ’
Then
shalt
thou
say, O LORD, thou
hast
spoken
against
this
place,
to cut it
off ,
that none
shall
remain in
it,
neither man nor beast, but
that
it shall
be desolate for
ever
.
When you
finish
reading this scroll
, tie
a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates .
And
it
shall
be,
when thou
hast
made
an
end
of
reading this book
, that
thou
shalt
bind
a stone to it ,
and cast it into the midst
of
Euphrates :
Then
you
are
to
say, ‘In
the
same
way
Babylon will
sink and never
rise again,
because
of
the disaster
I will bring upon her .
And her
people
will
grow
weary. ’”
Here
end
the words of Jeremiah.
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.
Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible and King James Version. Public domain; source text distributed by BSB Publishing, LLC.; UK publication rights are administered by the Crown's patentee; public domain in most other jurisdictions..