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\v 1 "Yahweh says this: See, I am about to stir up a wind of destruction against Babylon
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\q and against those who live in Leb Kamai.
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\v 2 I will send foreigners to Babylon. They will scatter her and devastate her land,
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\q for they will come against her from all around on the day of disaster.
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\v 3 Do not let the archers bend their bows; do not let them put on armor.
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\q Do not spare her young men; set her whole army apart for destruction.
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\v 4 For the wounded people will fall in the land of the Chaldeans; those who are killed will fall in her streets.
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\q
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\v 5 For Israel and Judah are not forsaken by their God, by Yahweh of hosts,
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\q although their land is filled with offenses committed against the Holy One of Israel.
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\q
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\v 6 Flee from the midst of Babylon; let each man save himself. Do not perish in her iniquity.
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\q For it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance. He will repay all of it to her.
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\q
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\v 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of Yahweh that made all the land drunk;
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\q nations drank her wine and became insane.
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\q
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\v 8 Babylon will fall suddenly and be destroyed.
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\q Wail for her! Give her medicine for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
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\v 9 'We wished to heal Babylon, but she is not healed. Let us all leave her and go away,
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\q to our own land. For her guilt reaches up to the heavens; it is piled up to the clouds.'
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\v 10 'Yahweh has declared our innocence. Come, let us tell in Zion
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\q the deeds of Yahweh our God.'
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\q
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\v 11 Sharpen the arrows and take up the shields. Yahweh is stirring up
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\q the spirit of the king of the Medes in a plan to destroy Babylon.
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\q This is for Yahweh's vengeance, vengeance for the destruction of his temple.
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\v 12 Raise the banner over Babylon's walls; post the guards.
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\q Place the sentinels; hide soldiers to catch anyone running from the city, for Yahweh will do what he has planned.
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\q He will do what he has announced against Babylon's inhabitants.
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\v 13 You people who live by many streams of water, you people who are rich with treasures,
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\q your end has come. The thread of your life is now cut short.
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\q
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\v 14 Yahweh of hosts has sworn by his own life, ‘I will fill you with your enemies, like a locust plague;
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\q they will raise a battle cry against you.'
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\q
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\v 15 He has made the earth by his power; he set in place the world by his wisdom.
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\q By his understanding he stretched out the heavens.
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\q
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\v 16 When he thunders, there is the roar of waters in the heavens, for he brings up the mist from the ends of the earth.
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\q He makes lightning for rain and sends out wind from his storehouses.
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\v 17 Every man becomes like an animal without knowledge; every metalworker is put to shame by his idols.
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\q For his cast poured images are frauds; there is no life in them.
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\v 18 They are useless, the work of mockers; they will perish at the time of their punishment.
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\v 19 But God, the portion of Jacob, is not like these, for he is the molder of all things. Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
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\q Yahweh of hosts is his name.
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\q
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\v 20 You are my war hammer, my weapon for battle.
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\q With you I will smash nations and destroy kingdoms.
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\q
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\v 21 With you I will smash horses and their riders; with you I will smash chariots and their drivers.
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\v 22 With you I will smash each man and woman; with you I will smash the old and the young.
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\q With you I will smash the young men and the virgin girls.
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\v 23 With you I will smash the shepherds and their flocks; with you I will smash the plowmen and their teams.
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\q With you I will smash the governors and officials.
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\v 24 For in your sight I will pay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all of the evil
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\q that they did in Zion—this is Yahweh’s declaration."
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\v 25 "See, I am against you, you mountain, you who destroy other people—this is Yahweh’s declaration—destroying all the earth.
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\q I will strike you with my hand and roll you down from the cliffs.
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\q Then I will make you a mountain burned completely through.
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\v 26 So they will not take from you any stone to construct a building's corner or foundation;
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\q for you will become an everlasting devastation—this is Yahweh’s declaration."
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\v 27 "Lift up a banner over the earth. Blow the trumpet over the nations. Assign the nations to attack her.
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\q Report about her to the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
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\q appoint a commander to attack her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
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\v 28 Assign nations to attack her: the kings of the Medes and his governors,
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\q all of his officials and all the lands under his rule.
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\v 29 For the land will shake and be in anguish, since Yahweh's plans continue against Babylon,
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\q to make the land of Babylon a wasteland where there is no inhabitant.
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\v 30 The soldiers in Babylon have stopped fighting; they stay in their strongholds.
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\q Their strength has failed; they have become women—her homes are on fire, the bars of her gates are broken.
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\v 31 A messenger runs to proclaim to another messenger, and a runner tells another runner
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\q to report to the king of Babylon that his city has been taken from end to end.
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\v 32 So the fords over the river are seized; the enemy is burning the reed marshes,
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\q and Babylon's fighting men are confused."
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\p
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\v 33 "For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor.
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\q It is time to trample her down. In a little while the time of harvest will come to her.
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\v 34 Jerusalem says, 'Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me. He has drained me dry
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\q and has made me into an empty pot. He has swallowed me like a dragon.
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\q He filled his stomach with my good food. He has rinsed me out.'
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\v 35 The inhabitants of Zion will say, 'May the violence done to me and my family turn against Babylon.'
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\q Jerusalem will say, 'May the guilt for my blood being shed turn against the inhabitants of Chaldea.'”
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\v 36 "Therefore Yahweh says this: See, I am about to plead your case and bring about vengeance for you.
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\q For I will dry up Babylon's waters and make her springs run dry.
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\v 37 Babylon will become heaps of rubble, a den of jackals, a horror,
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\q an object of hissing, where there are no inhabitants.
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\v 38 The Babylonians will roar together like young lions. They will growl like lion cubs.
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\v 39 When they become hot with greed, I will make a feast for them; I will make them drunk so they become happy,
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\q and then sleep an unending sleep and not wake up—this is Yahweh’s declaration—
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\v 40 I will send them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats."
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\v 41 "How Babylon has been captured! So the praise of all the earth is seized.
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\q How Babylon has become a ruined place among the nations.
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\v 42 The sea has come up over Babylon! She is covered with its roaring waves.
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\v 43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness,
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\q a land that no one inhabits, and no human being passes through.
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\v 44 So I will punish Bel in Babylon; I will bring out from his mouth what he swallowed,
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\q and the nations will no longer flow to him with their offerings. The walls of Babylon will fall."
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\v 45 "Go out from her midst, my people. Let each of you save his own life from the fury of my wrath.
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\v 46 Do not let your hearts be timid or fear the news that is heard in the land,
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\q for the news will come one year. After it in the next year there will be news,
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\q and violence will be in the land. Ruler will be against ruler.
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\v 47 Therefore, see, days are coming when I will punish the carved idols of Babylon.
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\q All of her land will be ashamed, and all of her slaughtered ones will fall in her midst.
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\v 48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them will rejoice over Babylon.
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\q For destroyers will come for her from the north—this is Yahweh’s declaration.
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\v 49 "As Babylon has made the killed of Israel fall,
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\q so the killed of all her land will fall in Babylon."
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\v 50 "Survivors of the sword, go away! Do not stay still.
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\q Call Yahweh to mind from far away; let Jerusalem come to mind.
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\v 51 We are ashamed, for we have heard insults; reproach has covered our faces,
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\q for foreigners have entered the holy places of Yahweh's house."
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\v 52 "Therefore, see, days are coming—this is Yahweh’s declaration—when I will punish her carved idols,
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\q and the wounded people will groan in all of her land.
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\v 53 For even if Babylon went up to the heavens or fortified her highest fortresses,
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\q destroyers would come from me to her—this is Yahweh’s declaration."
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\v 54 A shout of distress came from Babylon, a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans.
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\v 55 For Yahweh is destroying Babylon. He is causing her loud voice to perish.
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\q Their enemies roar like the waves of many waters; their noise becomes very strong.
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\v 56 For the destroyers have come against her—against Babylon!—and her warriors have been captured.
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\q Their bows are broken, for Yahweh is the God of vengeance; he will surely carry out this repayment.
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\v 57 "For I will make her princes, her sages, her officials, and her soldiers drunk,
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\q and they will sleep in an unending sleep and never wake up
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\q —this is the King’s declaration: Yahweh of hosts is his name."
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\v 58 "Yahweh of hosts says this: The thick walls of Babylon will be completely demolished,
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\q and her high gates will be burned.
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\q Then the peoples coming to her aid will labor uselessly; everything that the nations try to do for her will be burned up."
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\v 59 This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah
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\q son of Machseiah when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon
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\q in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was a chief officer.
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\v 60 For Jeremiah had written in a scroll about all the disaster that was going to come on Babylon—all these words that were written about Babylon.
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\v 61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you go to Babylon, then make sure you read all these words.
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\v 62 And you will say, ‘Yahweh, you!—you yourself have declared that you would destroy this place. It will have no inhabitant, either of people or animals. It will be a permanent wasteland.'
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\v 63 Then when you have finished reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.y
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\v 64 Say, ‘Babylon will sink like this. It will not arise because of the disaster that I am sending against it, and they will fall.’" Jeremiah's words end here.
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