Jeremiah 51:20-46

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20“You are My war club,
My weapon for battle.
With you I shatter nations;
with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
21With you I shatter the horse and rider;
with you I shatter the chariot and driver.
22With 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.
23With 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.
24Before your very eyes I will repay
Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea
for all the evil they have done in Zion,”
25“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.
26No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone
or a foundation stone,
because you will become desolate forever,”
27“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.
28Prepare the nations for battle against her —
the kings of the Medes,
their governors and all their officials,
and all the lands they rule.
29The earth quakes and writhes
because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand:
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
30The 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.
31One 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.
32The fords have been seized,
the marshes set on fire,
and the soldiers are terrified.”
33For 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.”
34“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.
35May 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.
36Therefore 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.
37Babylon will become a heap of rubble,
a haunt for jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,
without inhabitant.
38They will roar together like young lions;
they will growl like lion cubs.
39While 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.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
41How Sheshach has been captured!
The praise of all the earth has been seized.
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
42The sea has come up over Babylon;
she is covered in turbulent waves.
43Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no son of man passes through.
44I 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.
45Come out of her, My people!
Save your lives, each of you,
from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46Do 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.
— Jeremiah 51:20-46

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