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are come into the sanctuaries of the L
ORD
’S house.
52
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the
L
ORD
, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall
groan.
53
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of
her strength,
yet
from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the L
ORD
.
54
A sound of a cry
cometh
from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
55
Because the L
ORD
hath
spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters,
a noise of their voice is uttered:
56
Because the spoiler is come upon her,
even
upon Babylon, and
her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the L
ORD
God of recompences
shall surely requite.
57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise
men,
her captains, and her
rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King,
whose name
is
the L
ORD
of hosts.
58
Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall
be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain,
and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
59
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his
reign. And
this
Seraiah was a quiet prince.
60
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should
come upon Babylon,
even
all these words that are written against Babylon.
61
And Jeremiah said
to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
62
Then
shalt thou say, O L
ORD
, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in
it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
63
And it shall be, when thou hast
made an end of reading this book,
that
thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates:
64
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I
will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far
are
the words of Jeremiah.
CHAPTER 52
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2
And he did
that which was
evil in the eyes of the L
ORD
, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
3
For through
the anger of the L
ORD
it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
4
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the
month,
that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and
pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
5
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh
year of king Zedekiah.
6
And in the fourth month, in the ninth
day
of the month, the famine was
sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
7
Then the city was broken
up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate
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