Judgment on Babylon
This is what the LORD says: Amo 3:6Hos 13:15Jer 4:11-122Ki 19:7Act 9:4Ezk 19:12Isa 13:3-5Jer 49:36
“Behold, I will stir up against Babylon
and against the people of Leb-kamai 1
the spirit of a destroyer.
I will send strangers to Babylon Jer 15:7Mat 3:12Isa 41:16Ezk 5:12Jer 50:14-15Jer 50:29Jer 50:32Jer 51:27-28
to winnow her and empty her land;
for they will come against her from every side
in her day of disaster.
Do not let the archer bend his bow Jer 50:14Jer 46:4Jer 50:21Deu 32:25Isa 13:10-18Jas 2:13Jer 50:27Jer 50:29-30
or put on his armor.
Do not spare her young men;
devote all her army to destruction! 2
And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, 3 Jer 49:26Isa 13:15Jer 50:30Isa 14:19Jer 50:37
and pierced through in her streets.
For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned Rom 11:1-2Hos 4:1Zec 12:6Zec 12:81Sa 12:22Amo 9:8-9Ezk 22:24-31Ezk 8:17
by their God, the LORD of Hosts,
though their land is full of guilt
before the Holy One of Israel.”
Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Jer 50:8Jer 25:14Jer 50:15Jer 50:28Jer 51:45Num 16:261Ti 5:22Isa 48:20
Do not be destroyed in her punishment.
For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance;
He will pay her what she deserves.
Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, Rev 14:8Rev 17:4Rev 17:2Rev 18:3Dan 2:32Dan 2:38Dan 3:1-7Hab 2:15-16
making the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine;
therefore the nations have gone mad.
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Isa 21:9Jer 46:11Rev 14:8Jer 48:20Jer 50:2Rev 18:2Dan 5:24Dan 5:31
Wail for her; get her balm for her pain;
perhaps she can be healed.
“We tried to heal Babylon, Jer 50:16Isa 13:14Rev 18:5Jer 46:16Dan 4:20-22Ezr 9:62Ch 28:9Isa 47:15
but she could not be healed.
Abandon her!
Let each of us go to his own land,
for her judgment extends to the sky
and reaches to the clouds.”
“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; Jer 50:28Isa 51:11Psa 37:6Isa 40:2Isa 52:9-10Jer 31:6-9Mic 7:9-10Psa 102:19-21
come, let us tell in Zion
what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
Sharpen the arrows! Jer 46:4Jer 50:45Jer 46:9Jer 50:91Ch 5:261Ki 11:141Ki 11:232Ch 36:22
Fill the quivers! 4
The LORD has aroused the spirit
of the kings of the Medes,
because His plan is aimed at Babylon
to destroy her,
for it is the vengeance of the LORD—
vengeance for His temple.
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; Isa 13:2Jer 51:11Jer 51:29Nam 2:1Isa 8:9-10Jer 46:3-5Jer 50:2Jer 51:27
post the guard;
station the watchmen;
prepare the ambush.
For the LORD has both devised and accomplished
what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
You who dwell by many waters, Rev 17:1Isa 45:3Rev 17:15Gen 6:13Jer 51:361Pe 4:72Pe 2:3Amo 8:2
rich in treasures,
your end has come;
the thread of your life is cut.
The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: Amo 6:8Jer 49:13Jer 50:15Jol 2:25Heb 6:13Jdg 6:5Jer 46:23Jer 51:27
“Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts,
and they will shout in triumph over you.”
Praise to the God of Jacob
(Isaiah 25:1–12)
The LORD made the earth by His power; Jer 10:12-16Rev 4:11Jer 32:17Act 14:15Col 1:16-17Rom 1:20Job 9:8Pro 3:19
He established the world by His wisdom
and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
When He thunders, Psa 135:7Jon 1:4Psa 18:13Jer 10:12-13Amo 9:7Exo 10:13Exo 10:19Exo 14:21
the waters in the heavens roar;
He causes the clouds to rise
from the ends of the earth.
He generates the lightning with the rain
and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; Hab 2:18-19Jer 10:14Isa 44:18-20Psa 14:21Co 1:19-21Jer 50:2Rom 1:20-23Psa 115:5
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols.
For his molten images are a fraud,
and there is no breath in them.
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. Act 14:15Exo 12:12Isa 19:1Isa 46:1Jer 10:15Jer 10:8Jer 18:15Jer 43:12-13
In the time of their punishment they will perish.
The Portion of Jacob is not like these, Jer 10:16Psa 73:261Pe 2:9Psa 33:12Exo 19:5-6Isa 47:4Deu 32:9Jer 12:7-10
for He is the Maker of all things,
and of the tribe of His inheritance—
the LORD of Hosts is His name.
Babylon’s Punishment
“You are My war club, Isa 41:15-16Mic 4:13Isa 37:26Zec 9:13-14Isa 14:5-6Jer 27:5-7Isa 10:5Jer 25:9
My weapon for battle.
With you I shatter nations;
with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
With you I shatter the horse and rider; Exo 15:1Zec 10:5Hag 2:22Mic 5:10Nam 2:13Zec 12:4Psa 46:9Rev 19:18
with you I shatter the chariot and driver.
With you I shatter man and woman; 2Ch 36:17Isa 13:181Sa 15:3Ezk 9:6Deu 32:25Isa 13:16Jer 6:11Lam 2:11
with you I shatter the old man and the youth;
with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; Jer 51:57
with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen;
with you I shatter the governors and officials.
Before your very eyes I will repay Jer 50:15Isa 63:1-4Rev 18:241Th 2:15-16Isa 47:6-9Isa 51:22-23Isa 61:2Isa 66:6
Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea 5
for all the evil they have done in Zion,”
declares the LORD.
“Behold, I am against you, Rev 8:8Zec 4:7Jer 50:31Isa 13:2Jer 51:53Jer 51:58Dan 4:30Gen 11:4
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.
No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone Isa 13:19-22Jer 50:12-13Jer 51:43Rev 18:20-24Isa 14:23Isa 34:8-17Jer 50:40-41Jer 51:29
or a foundation stone,
because you will become desolate forever,”
declares the LORD.
“Raise a banner in the land! Gen 10:31Ch 1:6Gen 8:4Jer 25:14Jer 50:2Jer 51:12Isa 13:2-5Isa 18:3
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.
Prepare the nations for battle against her— Jer 51:11Jer 25:251Ch 1:5Dan 5:28-30Dan 6:8Dan 8:20Dan 8:3-4Dan 9:1
the kings of the Medes,
their governors and all their officials,
and all the lands they rule.
The earth quakes and writhes Jer 51:11-12Jer 51:43Jer 8:16Amo 8:8Isa 13:19-20Jer 10:10Jer 50:13Jer 50:45
because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand:
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; Nam 3:13Jer 50:36-37Isa 13:7-8Isa 19:16Lam 2:9Isa 45:1-2Psa 76:5Amo 1:5
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.
One courier races to meet another, 2Ch 30:62Sa 18:19-311Sa 4:12-18Dan 5:2-5Dan 5:30Est 3:13-15Est 8:10Est 8:14
and messenger follows messenger,
to announce to the king of Babylon
that his city has been captured from end to end.
The fords have been seized, Isa 44:27Jer 50:37-38Jer 51:30
the marshes set on fire,
and the soldiers are terrified.”
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Isa 21:10Hos 6:11Jol 3:13Isa 41:15-16Mic 4:13Rev 14:15-20Amo 1:3Hab 3:12
“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.”
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; Jer 50:17Jer 51:44Isa 24:1-3Job 20:15Mat 23:13Amo 8:4Ezk 36:3Lam 1:1
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. 6
May the violence done to me Jer 50:29Rev 18:20Isa 26:20-21Jas 2:13Jdg 9:20Jdg 9:24Jdg 9:56-57Mat 7:2
and to my flesh
be upon Babylon,”
says the dweller of Zion.
“May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,”
says Jerusalem.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: Jer 50:38Rom 12:19Psa 140:12Deu 32:35Deu 32:43Heb 10:30-31Isa 44:27Hab 2:8-17
“Behold, I will plead your case
and take vengeance on your behalf;
I will dry up her sea
and make her springs run dry.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, Rev 18:2Jer 18:16Jer 25:9Jer 51:25-26Rev 18:21-232Ch 29:8Isa 13:19-22Isa 14:23
a haunt for jackals, 7
an object of horror and scorn,
without inhabitant.
They will roar together like young lions; Jer 2:15Isa 35:9Jdg 16:20Job 4:10-11Nam 2:11-13Psa 34:10Psa 58:6Zec 11:3
they will growl like lion cubs.
While they are flushed with heat, Jer 51:57Jer 25:27Isa 22:12-14Nam 1:10Nam 3:11Dan 5:1-4Dan 5:30Isa 21:4-5
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.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Jer 50:27Ezk 39:18Isa 34:6Psa 37:20Psa 44:22
like rams with male goats.
How Sheshach 8has been captured! Jer 25:26Isa 13:19Jer 49:252Ch 7:21Dan 2:38Dan 4:22Dan 4:30Dan 5:1-5
The praise of all the earth has been seized.
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
The sea has come up over Babylon; Isa 8:7-8Dan 9:26Ezk 27:26-34Jer 51:55Luk 21:25Psa 18:16Psa 18:4Psa 42:7
she is covered in turbulent waves.
Her cities have become a desolation, Isa 13:20Jer 2:6Jer 51:29Ezk 29:10-11Jer 50:12Jer 50:39-40Jer 51:37
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no son of man passes through.
I will punish Bel in Babylon. Jer 51:34Jer 51:58Isa 2:2Jer 50:22Ch 36:7Dan 1:2Dan 3:2-3Dan 3:29
I will make him spew out what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even the wall of Babylon will fall.
Come out of her, My people! 9 Isa 48:20Jer 51:6Rev 18:42Co 6:17Act 2:40Gen 19:12-16Jer 50:8Num 16:26
Save your lives, each of you,
from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Do not let your heart grow faint, 2Ki 19:7Isa 13:3-5Isa 19:2Isa 21:2-31Sa 14:16-202Ch 20:23Jdg 7:22Luk 21:28
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.
Therefore, behold, the days are coming Jer 50:2Isa 46:1-2Jer 51:52Isa 21:9Jer 11:22Jer 13:21Jer 23:34Jer 25:12
when I will punish the idols of Babylon.
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Isa 44:23Rev 18:20Jer 50:3Isa 48:20Isa 49:13Jer 50:41Jer 50:9Jer 51:10-11
will shout for joy over Babylon
because the destroyers from the north
will come against her,”
declares the LORD.
“Babylon must fall Jer 50:29Jer 51:24Psa 137:8-9Jas 2:13Jdg 1:7Jer 50:11Jer 50:17-18Jer 50:33-34
on account of the slain of Israel,
just as the slain of all the earth
have fallen because of Babylon.
You who have escaped the sword, Jer 44:28Psa 122:6Dan 9:2-3Ezr 1:3-5Isa 51:11Isa 52:11-12Jer 51:45Rev 18:4
depart and do not linger!
Remember the LORD from far away,
and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Lam 1:10Psa 44:13-16Psa 74:3-7Psa 79:4Dan 11:31Dan 8:11-14Dan 9:26-27Ezk 24:21
disgrace has covered our faces,
because foreigners have entered
the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” Jer 51:47Jer 50:38Dan 5:30-31Ezk 30:24Isa 13:15-16
declares the LORD,
“when I will punish her idols,
and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens Gen 11:4Jer 49:16Jer 51:25Oba 1:3-4Psa 139:8-10Amo 9:4Dan 4:30Ezk 31:9-11
and fortifies her lofty stronghold,
the destroyers I send will come against her,”
declares the LORD.
“The sound of a cry Jer 50:22Jer 48:3-5Jer 50:46Isa 13:6-9Isa 15:5Jer 50:27Jer 50:43Rev 18:17-19
comes from Babylon,
the sound of great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans!
For the LORD will destroy Babylon; Jer 25:10Ezk 26:3Isa 15:1Isa 17:13Isa 24:8-11Isa 47:5Jer 50:10-15Jer 51:38-39
He will silence her mighty voice.
The waves will roar like great waters;
the tumult of their voices will resound.
For a destroyer is coming against her— Jer 51:6Hab 2:8Jer 51:48Psa 46:9Psa 94:1-2Rev 19:2Deu 32:35Isa 59:18
against Babylon.
Her warriors will be captured,
and their bows will be broken,
for the LORD is a God of retribution;
He will repay in full.
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, Jer 46:18Jer 25:27Jer 48:15Jer 51:39Psa 76:5-6Dan 5:1-4Dan 5:30-31Hab 2:15-17
along with her governors, officials, and warriors.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and not wake up,”
declares the King,
whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Hab 2:13Jer 50:15Jer 51:44Jer 51:64Isa 45:1-2Isa 65:23Jer 51:30Jer 51:9
“Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled,
and her high gates consumed by fire.
So the labor of the people will be for nothing;
the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
Jeremiah’s Message to Seraiah
This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign. Jer 32:12Jer 36:4Jer 28:1Jer 45:1Jer 52:1 Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon. Hab 2:2-3Isa 30:8Jer 30:2-3Jer 36:32Dan 12:4Isa 8:1-4Jer 36:2-4Rev 1:11
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud, Mrk 13:11Th 4:181Th 5:27Col 4:16Jer 29:1-2Mat 24:1Rev 1:3 and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’ Jer 50:13Jer 50:3Ezk 35:9Isa 13:19-22Isa 14:22-23Jer 50:39-40Rev 18:20-23Jer 25:12
When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates. Rev 18:21Jer 19:10-11 Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Jer 51:58Job 31:40Nam 1:8-9Psa 72:20Rev 18:21Hab 2:13Jer 25:27Jer 51:42
Here end the words of Jeremiah.