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desolate for ever, saith the L
ORD
.
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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.
28
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.
29
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose
of the L
ORD
shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without
an inhabitant.
30
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.
31
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,
32
And that the passages are stopped, and the
reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
33
For thus saith the L
ORD
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.
34
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.
35
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.
36
Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
; Behold, I will
plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing,
without an inhabitant.
38
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39
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 L
ORD
.
40
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with he goats.
41
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised!
how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42
The sea is come up upon Babylon:
she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43
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.
44
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.
45
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger
of the L
ORD
.
46
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.
47
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.
48
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 L
ORD
.
49
As Babylon
hath caused
the
slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
50
Ye that have escaped the
sword, go away, stand not still: remember the L
ORD
afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers
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