Thus saith{H559} Jehovah:{H3068} Behold, I will raise up{H5782} against Babylon,{H894} and against them that dwell{H3427} in Leb -{H3820} kamai,{H6965} a destroying{H7843} wind.{H7307}

And I will send{H7971} unto Babylon{H894} strangers,{H2114} that shall winnow{H2219} her; and they shall empty{H1238} her land:{H776} for in the day{H3117} of trouble{H7451} they shall be against her round about.{H5439}

Against [him that] bendeth{H1869} let the archer{H1869} bend{H1869} his bow,{H7198} and against [him that] lifteth himself up{H5927} in his coat{H5630} of mail: and spare{H2550} ye not her young men;{H970} destroy ye utterly{H2763} all her host.{H6635}

And they shall fall{H5307} down slain{H2491} in the land{H776} of the Chaldeans,{H3778} and thrust through{H1856} in her streets.{H2351}

For Israel{H3478} is not forsaken,{H488} nor Judah,{H3063} of his God,{H430} of Jehovah{H3068} of hosts;{H6635} though their land{H776} is full{H4390} of guilt{H817} against the Holy One{H6918} of Israel.{H3478}

Flee out{H5127} of the midst{H8432} of Babylon,{H894} and save{H4422} every man{H376} his life;{H5315} be not cut off{H1826} in her iniquity:{H5771} for it is the time{H6256} of Jehovah's{H3068} vengeance;{H5360} he will render{H7999} unto her a recompense.{H1576}

Babylon{H894} hath been a golden{H2091} cup{H3563} in Jehovah's{H3068} hand,{H3027} that made all the earth{H776} drunken:{H7937} the nations{H1471} have drunk{H8354} of her wine;{H3196} therefore the nations{H1471} are mad.{H1984}

Babylon{H894} is suddenly{H6597} fallen{H5307} and destroyed:{H7665} wail{H3213} for her; take{H3947} balm{H6875} for her pain,{H4341} if so be she may be healed.{H7495}

We would have healed{H7495} Babylon,{H894} but she is not healed:{H7495} forsake{H5800} her, and let us go{H3212} every one{H376} into his own country;{H776} for her judgment{H4941} reacheth{H5060} unto heaven,{H8064} and is lifted up{H5375} even to the skies.{H7834}

Jehovah{H3068} hath brought forth{H3318} our righteousness:{H6666} come,{H935} and let us declare{H5608} in Zion{H6726} the work{H4639} of Jehovah{H3068} our God.{H430}

Make sharp{H1305} the arrows;{H2671} hold firm{H4390} the shields:{H7982} Jehovah{H3068} hath stirred up{H5782} the spirit{H7307} of the kings{H4428} of the Medes;{H4074} because his purpose{H4209} is against Babylon,{H894} to destroy{H7843} it: for it is the vengeance{H5360} of Jehovah,{H3068} the vengeance{H5360} of his temple.{H1964}

Set up{H5375} a standard{H5251} against the walls{H2346} of Babylon,{H894} make the watch{H4929} strong,{H2388} set{H3559} the watchmen,{H8104} prepare{H3559} the ambushes;{H693} for Jehovah{H3068} hath both purposed{H2161} and done{H6213} that which he spake{H1696} concerning the inhabitants{H3427} of Babylon.{H894}

O thou that dwellest{H7931} upon many{H7227} waters,{H4325} abundant{H7227} in treasures,{H214} thine end{H7093} is come,{H935} the measure{H520} of thy covetousness.{H1215}

Jehovah{H3068} of hosts{H6635} hath sworn{H7650} by himself,{H5315} [saying], Surely I will fill{H4390} thee with men,{H120} as with the canker-worm;{H3218} and they shall lift up{H6030} a shout{H1959} against thee.

He hath made{H6213} the earth{H776} by his power,{H3581} he hath established{H3559} the world{H8398} by his wisdom,{H2451} and by his understanding{H8394} hath he stretched out{H5186} the heavens:{H8064}

when he uttereth{H5414} his voice,{H6963} there is a tumult{H1995} of waters{H4325} in the heavens,{H8064} and he causeth the vapors{H5387} to ascend{H5927} from the ends{H7097} of the earth;{H776} he maketh{H6213} lightnings{H1300} for the rain,{H4306} and bringeth forth{H3318} the wind{H7307} out of his treasuries.{H214}

Every man{H120} is become brutish{H1197} [and is] without knowledge;{H1847} every goldsmith{H6884} is put to shame{H3001} by his image;{H6459} for his molten image{H5262} is falsehood,{H8267} and there is no breath{H7307} in them.

They are vanity,{H1892} a work{H4639} of delusion:{H8595} in the time{H6256} of their visitation{H6486} they shall perish.{H6}

The portion{H2506} of Jacob{H3290} is not like these; for he is the former{H3335} of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe{H7626} of his inheritance:{H5159} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts{H6635} is his name.{H8034}

Thou art my battle-axe{H4661} and weapons{H3627} of war:{H4421} and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} the nations;{H1471} and with thee will I destroy{H7843} kingdoms;{H4467}

and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} the horse{H5483} and his rider;{H7392}

and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} the chariot{H7393} and him that rideth{H7392} therein; and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} man{H376} and woman;{H802} and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} the old{H2205} man and the youth;{H5288} and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} the young man{H970} and the virgin;{H1330}

and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} the shepherd{H7462} and his flock;{H5739} and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} the husbandman{H406} and his yoke [of oxen];{H6776} and with thee will I break in pieces{H5310} governors{H6346} and deputies.{H5461}

And I will render{H7999} unto Babylon{H894} and to all the inhabitants{H3427} of Chaldea{H3778} all their evil{H7451} that they have done{H6213} in Zion{H6726} in your sight,{H5869} saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

Behold, I am against thee, O destroying{H4889} mountain,{H2022} saith{H5002} Jehovah,{H3068} which destroyest{H7843} all the earth;{H776} and I will stretch out{H5186} my hand{H3027} upon thee, and roll thee down{H1556} from the rocks,{H5553} and will make{H5414} thee a burnt{H8316} mountain.{H2022}

And they shall not take{H3947} of thee a stone{H68} for a corner,{H6438} nor a stone{H68} for foundations;{H4146} but thou shalt be desolate{H8077} for ever,{H5769} saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

Set ye up{H5375} a standard{H5251} in the land,{H776} blow{H8628} the trumpet{H7782} among the nations,{H1471} prepare{H6942} the nations{H1471} against her, call together{H8085} against her the kingdoms{H4467} of Ararat,{H780} Minni,{H4508} and Ashkenaz:{H813} appoint{H6485} a marshal{H2951} against her; cause the horses{H5483} to come up{H5927} as the rough{H5569} canker-worm.{H3218}

Prepare{H6942} against her the nations,{H1471} the kings{H4428} of the Medes,{H4074} the governors{H6346} thereof, and all the deputies{H5461} thereof, and all the land{H776} of their dominion.{H4475}

And the land{H776} trembleth{H7493} and is in pain;{H2342} for the purposes{H4284} of Jehovah{H3068} against Babylon{H894} do stand,{H6965} to make{H7760} the land{H776} of Babylon{H894} a desolation,{H8047} without inhabitant.{H3427}

The mighty men{H1368} of Babylon{H894} have forborne{H2308} to fight,{H3898} they remain{H3427} in their strongholds;{H4679} their might{H1369} hath failed;{H5405} they are become as women:{H802} her dwelling-places{H4908} are set on fire;{H3341} her bars{H1280} are broken.{H7665}

One post{H7323} shall run{H7323} to meet{H7125} another,{H7323} and one messenger{H5046} to meet{H7125} another,{H5046} to show{H5046} the king{H4428} of Babylon{H894} that his city{H5892} is taken{H3920} on every quarter:{H7097}

and the passages{H4569} are seized,{H8610} and the reeds{H98} they have burned{H8313} with fire,{H784} and the men{H582} of war{H4421} are affrighted.{H926}

For thus saith{H559} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts,{H6635} the God{H430} of Israel:{H3478} The daughter{H1323} of Babylon{H894} is like a threshing-floor{H1637} at the time{H6256} when{H6256} it is trodden; yet a little while,{H4592} and the time{H6256} of harvest{H7105} shall come{H935} for her.

Nebuchadrezzar{H5019} the king{H4428} of Babylon{H894} hath devoured{H398} me, he hath crushed{H2000} me, he hath made{H3322} me an empty{H7385} vessel,{H3627} he hath, like a monster,{H8577} swallowed me up,{H1104} he hath filled{H4390} his maw{H3770} with my delicacies;{H5730} he hath cast me out.{H1740}

The violence{H2555} done to me and to my flesh{H7607} be upon Babylon,{H894} shall the inhabitant{H3427} of Zion{H6726} say;{H559} and, My blood{H1818} be upon the inhabitants{H3427} of Chaldea,{H3778} shall Jerusalem{H3389} say.{H559}

Therefore thus saith{H559} Jehovah:{H3068} Behold, I will plead{H7378} thy cause,{H7379} and take vengeance{H5358} for thee;{H5360} and I will dry up{H2717} her sea,{H3220} and make her fountain{H4726} dry.{H3001}

And Babylon{H894} shall become heaps,{H1530} a dwelling-place{H4583} for jackals,{H8577} an astonishment,{H8047} and a hissing,{H8322} without inhabitant.{H3427}

They shall roar{H7580} together{H3162} like young lions;{H3715} they shall growl{H5286} as lions'{H738} whelps.{H1484}

When they are heated,{H2527} I will make{H7896} their feast,{H4960} and I will make them drunken,{H7937} that they may rejoice,{H5937} and sleep{H3462} a perpetual{H5769} sleep,{H8142} and not wake,{H6974} saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

I will bring them down{H3381} like lambs{H3733} to the slaughter,{H2873} like rams{H352} with he-goats.{H6260}

How is Sheshach{H8347} taken!{H3920} and the praise{H8416} of the whole earth{H776} seized!{H8610} how is Babylon{H894} become a desolation{H8047} among the nations!{H1471}

The sea{H3220} is come up{H5927} upon Babylon;{H894} she is covered{H3680} with the multitude{H1995} of the waves{H1530} thereof.

Her cities{H5892} are become a desolation,{H8047} a dry{H6723} land,{H776} and a desert,{H6160} a land{H776} wherein no man{H376} dwelleth,{H3427} neither doth any son{H1121} of man{H120} pass{H5674} thereby.{H2004}

And I will execute judgment{H6485} upon Bel{H1078} in Babylon,{H894} and I will bring forth{H3318} out{H3318} of his mouth{H6310} that which he hath swallowed up;{H1105} and the nations{H1471} shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall{H2346} of Babylon{H894} shall fall.{H5307}

My people,{H5971} go ye out{H3318} of the midst{H8432} of her, and save{H4422} yourselves{H5315} every man{H376} from the fierce{H2740} anger{H639} of Jehovah.{H3068}

And let not your heart{H3824} faint,{H7401} neither fear{H3372} ye for the tidings{H8052} that shall be heard{H8085} in the land;{H776} for tidings{H8052} shall come{H935} one year,{H8141} and after{H310} that in another year{H8141} shall come tidings,{H8052} and violence{H2555} in the land,{H776} ruler{H4910} against ruler.{H4910}

Therefore, behold, the days{H3117} come,{H935} that I will execute judgment{H6485} upon the graven images{H6456} of Babylon;{H894} and her whole land{H776} shall be confounded;{H954} and all her slain{H2491} shall fall{H5307} in the midst{H8432} of her.

Then the heavens{H8064} and the earth,{H776} and all that is therein, shall sing{H7442} for joy over Babylon;{H894} for the destroyers{H7703} shall come{H935} unto her from the north,{H6828} saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

As{H1571} Babylon{H894} hath caused the slain{H2491} of Israel{H3478} to fall,{H5307} so at Babylon{H894} shall fall{H5307} the slain{H2491} of all the land.{H776}

Ye that have escaped{H6405} the sword,{H2719} go{H1980} ye, stand not still;{H5975} remember{H2142} Jehovah{H3068} from afar,{H7350} and let Jerusalem{H3389} come{H5927} into your mind.{H3824}

We are confounded,{H954} because we have heard{H8085} reproach;{H2781} confusion{H3639} hath covered{H3680} our faces:{H6440} for strangers{H2114} are come{H935} into the sanctuaries{H4720} of Jehovah's{H3068} house.{H1004}

Wherefore, behold, the days{H3117} come,{H935} saith{H5002} Jehovah,{H3068} that I will execute judgment{H6485} upon her graven images;{H6456} and through all her land{H776} the wounded{H2491} shall groan.{H602}

Though Babylon{H894} should mount up{H5927} to heaven,{H8064} and though she should fortify{H1219} the height{H4791} of her strength,{H5797} yet{H227} from me shall destroyers{H7703} come{H935} unto her, saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

The sound{H6963} of a cry{H2201} from Babylon,{H894} and of great{H1419} destruction{H7667} from the land{H776} of the Chaldeans!{H3778}

For Jehovah{H3068} layeth Babylon{H894} waste,{H7703} and destroyeth{H6} out of her the great{H1419} voice;{H6963} and their waves{H1530} roar{H1993} like many{H7227} waters;{H4325} the noise{H7588} of their voice{H6963} is uttered:{H5414}

for the destroyer{H7703} is come{H935} upon her, even upon Babylon,{H894} and her mighty men{H1368} are taken,{H3920} their bows{H7198} are broken{H2865} in pieces; for Jehovah{H3068} is a God{H410} of recompenses,{H1578} he will surely{H7999} requite.{H7999}

And I will make drunk{H7937} her princes{H8269} and her wise{H2450} men, her governors{H6346} and her deputies,{H5461} and her mighty men;{H1368} and they shall sleep{H3462} a perpetual{H5769} sleep,{H8142} and not wake,{H6974} saith{H5002} the King,{H4428} whose name{H8034} is Jehovah{H3068} of hosts.{H6635}

Thus saith{H559} Jehovah{H3068} of hosts:{H6635} The broad{H7342} walls{H2346} of Babylon{H894} shall be utterly{H6209} overthrown,{H6209} and her high{H1364} gates{H8179} shall be burned{H3341} with fire;{H784} and the peoples{H5971} shall labor{H3021} for vanity,{H7385} and the nations{H3816} for{H1767} the fire;{H784} and they shall be weary.{H3286}

The word{H1697} which Jeremiah{H3414} the prophet{H5030} commanded{H6680} Seraiah{H8304} the son{H1121} of Neriah,{H5374} the son{H1121} of Mahseiah,{H4271} when he went{H3212} with Zedekiah{H6667} the king{H4428} of Judah{H3063} to Babylon{H894} in the fourth{H7243} year{H8141} of his reign.{H4427} Now Seraiah{H8304} was chief{H4496} chamberlain.{H8269}

And Jeremiah{H3414} wrote{H3789} in a{H259} book{H5612} all the evil{H7451} that should come{H935} upon Babylon,{H894} even all these words{H1697} that are written{H3789} concerning Babylon.{H894}

And Jeremiah{H3414} said{H559} to Seraiah,{H8304} When thou comest{H935} to Babylon,{H894} then see{H7200} that thou read{H7121} all these words,{H1697}

and say,{H559} O Jehovah,{H3068} thou hast spoken{H1696} concerning this place,{H4725} to cut it off,{H3772} that none shall dwell{H3427} therein, neither man{H120} nor beast,{H929} but that it shall be desolate{H8077} for ever.{H5769}

And it shall be, when thou hast made an end{H3615} of reading{H7121} this book,{H5612} that thou shalt bind{H7194} a stone{H68} to it, and cast{H7993} it into the midst{H8432} of the Euphrates:{H6578}

and thou shalt say,{H559} Thus shall Babylon{H894} sink,{H8257} and shall not rise{H6965} again because{H6440} of the evil{H7451} that I will bring{H935} upon her; and they shall be weary.{H3286} Thus far are the words{H1697} of Jeremiah.{H3414}