Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
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
said
Jehovah
: Lo
, I am
stirring
up against Babylon ,
And the inhabitants
of Leb - -
My
withstanders,
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
I have
sent
to Babylon fanners,
And they
have
fanned
it,
and
they
empty its
land ,
For they have
been
against it,
Round
about
--
in the
day of evil
.
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 !
Let not
the treader
tread
his bow ,
Nor
lift
himself
up
in
his coat
of
mail,
Nor
have
ye
pity
on
her young men ,
Devote ye
to destruction all
her
host.
And they
will
fall
slain
in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
And fallen
have
the
wounded
in the land of the Chaldeans, And the
pierced -
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 ,
not
forsaken
is
Israel and Judah ,
By its
God --
by
Jehovah
of Hosts, For
their land hath
been
full of guilt ,
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 ye
from the
midst
of
Babylon ,
And
deliver
ye
each
his
soul,
Be not
cut
off
in its
iniquity,
For a
time of vengeance it
`is'
to
Jehovah,
Recompence
He is
rendering
to
her.
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
.
A golden
cup `is'
Babylon
in the hand of Jehovah
, Making drunk
all
the earth ,
Of
its
wine
drunk have
nations ,
Therefore boast
themselves
do
nations.
Suddenly Babylon has
fallen and
been
shattered.
Wail
for her;
get
her
balm for her pain ;
perhaps
she
can
be healed.
Suddenly hath
Babylon fallen ,
Yea,
it
is
broken,
howl
ye
for it,
Take
balm for her pain ,
if
so
be it
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 healed
Babylon, and
she was
not healed ,
Forsake
her ,
and
we
go ,
each
to his land, For come
unto
the heavens
hath
its
judgment,
And it
hath
been
lifted
up
unto
the clouds.
“The
LORD
has
brought forth our vindication;
come, let
us
tell
in Zion what
the LORD
our God has
accomplished
. ”
Jehovah
hath
brought forth our righteousnesses,
Come, and
we
recount
in Zion the work
of
Jehovah
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.
Cleanse
ye
the arrows ,
fill the shields,
Stirred
up
hath
Jehovah
the spirit of the kings of Madia
, For
against
Babylon
His device
`
is '
to destroy it
, For the vengeance of Jehovah
it
`is',
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.
Unto
the walls of Babylon lift
up
an
ensign,
Strengthen
the watch,
Establish
the watchers,
prepare the ambush ,
For Jehovah
hath
both devised and done
that
which
He spake,
Concerning
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
dweller
on
many waters, abundant
in treasures, Come in
hath
thine
end,
the measure
of thy
dishonest
gain
.
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
. ”
Sworn
hath
Jehovah
of Hosts by Himself ,
That,
Surely I have
filled
thee
`
with '
men as the
cankerworm
, And they have
cried
against
thee
--
shouting
.
The LORD
made
the
earth by His power ;
He
established
the world by His wisdom and
stretched out the heavens by
His
understanding.
The maker
of
earth by His power ,
The establisher
of
the
world by His wisdom ,
Who
by
His
understanding
stretched out the heavens ,
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
.
At
the
voice
He giveth
forth
, A
multitude
of
waters `are'
in the heavens ,
And
He causeth
vapours
to come
up
from the end
of the earth ,
Lightnings
for
rain He
hath
made,
And He
bringeth
out
wind from 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.
Brutish
hath
been
every man by
knowledge ,
Put to shame hath
been
every
refiner
by a
graven
image,
For false
`is'
his molten image
, And there is no breath in them.
They
are worthless,
a
work to
be
mocked.
In the time of their punishment
they will
perish.
Vanity
`
are '
they
--
work of
errors,
In the time of their inspection
they 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.
Not
like
these
`is'
the portion of Jacob, For He `
is '
former
of all things, And `Israel
is'
the rod
of His inheritance ,
Jehovah
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.
An
axe
`art'
thou
to
me
--
weapons
of
war, And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
nations ,
And
I have
destroyed
by
thee
kingdoms ,
With
you
I shatter
the
horse and rider ;
with
you
I shatter
the
chariot and driver.
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
horse and its
rider ,
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
chariot and its
charioteer,
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.
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
man and woman ,
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
old and young,
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
young man and virgin,
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
.
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
shepherd and his drove,
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
husbandman
and his team,
And
I have
broken
in
pieces
by
thee
governors and prefects
.
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 have
recompensed
to
Babylon ,
And to
all inhabitants
of Chaldea ,
All the evil that
they have done in Zion, Before
your
eyes
--
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
“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.
Lo
, I `
am '
against thee
, O destroying mount
, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
That
is
destroying
all
the earth, And
I have
stretched
out My hand against thee,
And
I have
rolled
thee
from
the rocks,
And given
thee
for
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
take
not
out
of
thee
a stone
for
a corner,
And
a
stone for
foundations
, For
desolations
age-during
art
thou
, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
“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
.
Lift
ye
up
an
ensign
in the land ,
Blow a
trumpet
among nations ,
Sanctify
against it
nations,
Summon against
it
the kingdoms of
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz ,
Appoint against it
an
infant
head,
Cause
the
horse
to
ascend
as
the
rough
cankerworm
.
Prepare
the nations for
battle
against
her—
the kings of the
Medes
, their
governors and all their
officials
, and all the lands
they
rule
.
Sanctify
against
it
the nations with
the kings of Media
, Its
governors and all its
prefects
, And all the land
of
its
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 shake
doth
the land,
and
it
is
pained,
For
stood
against Babylon have
the
purposes
of
Jehovah,
To make the land of Babylon a desolation without 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.
Ceased
have
the mighty
of Babylon to
fight,
They have
remained
in strongholds ,
Failed
hath
their might,
they have become woman
, They
have
burnt
her tabernacles,
Broken have
been
her
bars
.
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
.
Runner
to meet runner
doth
run
, And announcer
to
meet
announcer
, To announce to the king of Babylon ,
For,
captured
hath
been
his city --
at
the
extremity
.
The fords
have been seized
, the marshes
set
on
fire, and the soldiers
are
terrified
. ”
And
the passages
have been captured
, And
the reeds
they
have
burnt
with
fire, And the men
of
war
have
been
troubled
.
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
said
Jehovah
of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon `
is '
as
a threshing -
floor ,
The time of
her
threshing
--
yet
a little ,
And
come
hath
the
time
of
her harvest.
“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
.
Devoured
us,
crushed
us,
hath
Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon ,
He hath
set us
`as'
an empty vessel ,
He hath
swallowed us
as
a dragon,
He hath
filled his belly with my dainties,
He
hath
driven
us
away
.
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.
My
wrong,
and `that
of'
my flesh `is'
on
Babylon, Say
doth
the inhabitant
of Zion ,
And
my blood `is'
on the inhabitants
of Chaldea, Say
doth
Jerusalem.
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
said
Jehovah
: Lo
, I am
pleading
thy
cause,
And I have
avenged
thy
vengeance,
And
dried
up its
sea ,
and made
its
fountains
dry.
Babylon will
become
a
heap
of
rubble
, a haunt
for
jackals
, an object
of
horror
and scorn
, without inhabitant.
And
Babylon hath
been
for
heaps
, A habitation
of
dragons
, An astonishment,
and a
hissing
, without inhabitant.
They
will
roar
together like
young lions ;
they will
growl
like
lion
cubs
.
Together as
young lions they roar,
They
have
shaken
themselves
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 make
their
banquets
, And I have
caused
them to
drink,
so that they exult,
And have
slept
a
sleep
age-during
, And
awake
not
--
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
I will
bring
them down like
lambs to the
slaughter, like
rams with male
goats.
I cause
them to
go
down as
lambs to slaughter, As
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 hath
Sheshach been captured ,
Yea,
caught
is
the praise of the whole
earth ,
How
hath
Babylon been
for
an
astonishment
among nations .
The
sea
has
come up over
Babylon ;
she
is
covered in
turbulent
waves
.
Come up against
Babylon hath
the
sea,
With
a
multitude
of
its
billows
it
hath
been
covered.
Her
cities have become
a desolation, a dry and
arid
land, a land where
no
one
lives
, where
no
son of man passes
through
.
Its
cities have been
for
a desolation, A dry land, and
a wilderness,
A
land --
none
doth
dwell
in
them
, Nor
pass
over
into
them
doth
a
son of man.
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 have
seen
after
Bel in Babylon ,
And
I have
brought
forth
that
which
he swallowed --
from
his
mouth,
And
flow
no more
unto
him do
nations,
Also
the wall of Babylon hath
fallen
.
Come
out
of
her
, My people !
Save
your
lives
, each of
you
, from
the fierce
anger
of the LORD.
Go
forth
from
its
midst
, O
My people, And
deliver
ye,
each his
soul
, Because
of
the fierceness
of the anger
of
Jehovah,
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 be
tender
, And ye
be afraid of
the report
that
is heard in the land ,
And
come in
a
year hath
the report,
And
after
it
in
a
year the
report,
And
violence `is'
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, lo
, days are coming ,
And
I have
seen
after
the graven
images
of Babylon. And
all
its
land is
ashamed
, And all its
pierced
ones
do
fall
in
its
midst
.
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
.
And cried
aloud
against
Babylon
Have
heavens
and
earth ,
and all that `
is '
in them ,
For ,
from the north come to
it
do
the spoilers,
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
“
Babylon must
fall on
account
of
the
slain
of Israel, just
as
the
slain
of all
the
earth
have fallen because
of Babylon
.
Even
Babylon `is'
to
fall ,
ye
pierced
of Israel, Even
they
of Babylon
have fallen ,
Ye
pierced
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
escaped of
the sword, go
on,
stand
not ,
Remember ye
from afar
Jehovah
, And let Jerusalem come up
on
your
heart
.
“
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 have
been
ashamed ,
for
we heard reproach ,
Covered hath
shame
our faces, For
come
in
have strangers,
against
the sanctuaries
of the house of
Jehovah
.
“
Therefore, behold
, the
days are coming, ”
declares
the
LORD
, “when
I will
punish
her
idols
, and throughout
her
land the wounded will
groan
.
Therefore, lo
, days are coming, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah
, And
I have
seen
after
its
graven
images
, And in
all
its
land groan
doth
the wounded.
Even
if
Babylon ascends
to the heavens and
fortifies
her
lofty
stronghold
, the destroyers
I
send
will
come against
her
, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
Because
Babylon goeth
up
to the heavens, And
because
it
fenceth
the high
place
of
its
strength,
From
Me
come into
it
do
spoilers
, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
“The
sound
of a cry comes
from Babylon, the
sound
of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
A
voice
of a cry `is'
from Babylon, And
of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.
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
.
For Jehovah
is
spoiling
Babylon ,
And
hath
destroyed
out
of
it
a
great voice,
And
sounded
have
its
billows
as
many
waters ,
Given
forth
a
noise
hath
their voice
.
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
.
For come
in
against it
--
against Babylon --
hath
a
spoiler
, And captured
have
been
its
mighty
ones,
Broken
have
been
their bows, For the God of recompences
--
Jehovah
--
doth
certainly
repay.
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 have
caused
its
princes to
drink,
And its
wise men, its
governors, And
its
prefects
, and its
mighty
ones,
And
they have
slept
a
sleep
age-during,
And they
awake
not --
an
affirmation
of
the king, Jehovah
of Hosts `is'
His
name
.
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
said
Jehovah
of Hosts, the
wall
of
Babylon
--
The
broad
one
--
is
utterly
made
bare,
And her high gates with
fire are
burnt,
And
peoples
labour
in
vain,
And
nations in
fire,
and
have
been
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
that Jeremiah the prophet hath
commanded
Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah
, in
his
going
with Zedekiah king
of Judah to
Babylon,
in the fourth year of his
reign --
and
Seraiah
`is'
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.
and
Jeremiah writeth
all the evil
that cometh
unto
Babylon on
one
book
--
all these words that are
written concerning Babylon.
And Jeremiah said
to
Seraiah, “
When you
get
to
Babylon, see
that
you
read all these words aloud
,
And Jeremiah saith
unto
Seraiah, `
When thou
dost
enter
Babylon, then
thou
hast
seen,
and
hast
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
. ’
and hast
said:
Jehovah
, Thou
, Thou
hast
spoken
concerning
this
place,
to cut it
off ,
that there
is
none
dwelling
in
it,
from
man even
unto
cattle
, for
it is
a
desolation
age-during
.
When you
finish reading this scroll
, tie
a
stone
to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
And
it
hath
come
to
pass,
when thou
dost
finish reading this book
, thou
dost
bind
to it a
stone,
and hast
cast it into the midst
of
Phrat,
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
said
, Thus
sink doth
Babylon,
and it
doth
not
arise
, because of the evil
that
I am
bringing
in
against
it,
and they
have
been
weary. '
Hitherto
`are'
words of Jeremiah.
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