The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. Jer 25:26-27Isa 13:1-3Jer 51:1-142Pe 1:212Sa 23:2Act 7:4Hab 2:5-20Isa 14:4
“Declare among the nations and publish, Isa 46:1Isa 21:9Jer 51:44Jer 51:47Isa 12:4Isa 13:2Isa 37:19Isa 39:1
and set up a standard;
publish, and don’t conceal;
say, ‘Babylon has been taken,
Bel is disappointed,
Merodach is dismayed!
Her images are disappointed.
Her idols are dismayed.’
For a nation comes up out of the north against her, Jer 51:11Zep 1:3Jer 50:9Jer 51:62Exo 12:12Gen 6:7Isa 13:17-22Isa 13:5-10
which will make her land desolate,
and no one will dwell in it.
They have fled.
They are gone,
both man and animal.
“In those days, and in that time,” says the LORD, Hos 1:11Hos 3:5Jer 31:31Isa 11:12-13Ezk 37:16-22Ezk 39:25Ezr 3:12-13Isa 14:1
“the children of Israel will come,
they and the children of Judah together;
they will go on their way weeping,
and will seek the LORD their God.
They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, Jer 32:40Isa 35:8Heb 8:6-10Jer 6:16Isa 2:3-5Isa 55:3Isa 56:6-7Mic 4:1-2
saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant
that will not be forgotten.’
My people have been lost sheep. Isa 53:6Mat 9:36Ezk 34:14Mat 10:6Jer 50:17Psa 119:176Ezk 34:4-12Jer 3:6
Their shepherds have caused them to go astray.
They have turned them away on the mountains.
They have gone from mountain to hill.
They have forgotten their resting place.
All who found them have devoured them. Jer 14:8Jer 2:3Jer 31:23Jer 40:2-3Zec 11:5Jer 50:171Ti 1:1Dan 9:16
Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty,
because they have sinned against the LORD,
the habitation of righteousness,
even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Isa 48:20Jer 51:6Rev 18:4Jer 51:452Co 6:17Isa 52:1Num 16:26Pro 30:31
Go out of the land of the Chaldeans,
and be as the male goats before the flocks.
For, behold, I will stir up 2Sa 1:22Ezr 1:1-2Isa 13:17-18Isa 13:2-5Isa 21:2Isa 41:25Isa 45:1-4Jer 15:14
and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country;
and they will set themselves in array against her.
She will be taken from there.
Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man.
None of them will return in vain.
Chaldea will be a prey. Jer 25:12Isa 33:23Isa 33:4Isa 45:3Jer 27:7Rev 17:16
All who prey on her will be satisfied,” says the LORD.
“Because you are glad, Isa 47:6Amo 4:1Deu 32:15Ezk 25:15-17Ezk 25:3-8Ezk 26:2-3Hos 10:11Isa 10:6-7
because you rejoice,
O you who plunder my heritage,
because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain,
and neigh as strong horses,
your mother will be utterly disappointed. Jer 51:43Gal 4:26Isa 13:20-22Isa 14:22Isa 23:13Jer 25:12Jer 25:26Jer 49:2
She who bore you will be confounded.
Behold, she will be the least of the nations,
a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Because of the LORD’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, Jer 18:16Jer 49:17Hab 2:6-18Isa 14:4-17Jer 19:8Jer 25:12Jer 51:37Job 27:23
but she will be wholly desolate.
Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished,
and hiss at all her plagues.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, Jer 50:29Hab 2:171Sa 17:20Hab 2:8Jer 50:42Jer 50:7Jer 50:92Sa 10:9
all you who bend the bow;
shoot at her.
Spare no arrows,
for she has sinned against the LORD.
Shout against her all around. Jer 51:58Jer 46:10Jer 51:6Rev 18:61Ch 29:242Ch 30:8Jer 51:11Jer 51:14
She has submitted herself.
Her bulwarks have fallen.
Her walls have been thrown down,
for it is the vengeance of the LORD.
Take vengeance on her.
As she has done, do to her.
Cut off the sower from Babylon, Jer 46:16Jer 51:9Isa 13:14Jol 1:11Amo 5:16Jer 25:38Jer 51:23
and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest.
For fear of the oppressing sword,
they will each return to their own people,
and they will each flee to their own land.
“Israel is a hunted sheep. Jer 2:151Pe 2:252Ki 18:9-13Jer 50:6Jhn 10:10-12Jol 3:22Ch 28:202Ch 32:1-23
The lions have driven him away.
First, the king of Assyria devoured him,
and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Isa 10:12Nam 1:1-3Ezk 31:3-17Isa 37:36-38Zep 2:13-15
“Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,
as I have punished the king of Assyria.
I will bring Israel again to his pasture, Amo 9:14-15Ezk 34:13-14Jer 23:3Jer 24:6-7Jer 3:18Jer 30:10Jer 30:18Jer 31:14
and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan.
His soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
In those days, and in that time,” says the LORD, Mic 7:19Jer 31:34Isa 1:9Isa 43:25Heb 10:17-18Psa 103:12Rom 8:33-34Isa 44:22
“the iniquity of Israel will be sought for,
and there will be none,
also the sins of Judah,
and they won’t be found;
for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
“Go up against the land of Merathaim, Ezk 23:231Sa 15:11-241Sa 15:32Ch 36:232Ki 18:252Sa 16:11Isa 10:6Isa 44:28
even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod.
Kill and utterly destroy after them,” says the LORD,
“and do according to all that I have commanded you.
A sound of battle is in the land, Jer 4:19-21Jer 51:54-56Isa 21:2-4
and of great destruction.
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! Jer 51:20-24Isa 14:12-17Isa 14:4-6Rev 18:16
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
I have laid a snare for you, Dan 5:30-31Job 9:4Job 40:2Job 40:92Th 2:4Ecc 9:12Exo 10:3Isa 13:11
and you are also taken, Babylon,
and you weren’t aware.
You are found,
and also caught,
because you have fought against the LORD.
The LORD has opened his armory, Jer 51:25Jer 51:55Amo 3:6Jer 50:15Jer 51:20Isa 13:17-18Isa 13:2-5Isa 14:22-24
and has brought out the weapons of his indignation;
for the Lord, GOD 1 of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
Come against her from the farthest border. Isa 14:23Isa 45:3Jer 50:10Isa 10:6Isa 25:10Isa 5:26Isa 63:3-4Jer 50:13
Open her storehouses.
Cast her up as heaps.
Destroy her utterly.
Let nothing of her be left.
Kill all her bulls. Isa 34:7Jer 46:21Jer 48:44Psa 22:12Psa 37:13Ezk 39:17-20Ezk 7:5-7Jer 27:7
Let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them! For their day has come,
the time of their visitation.
Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, Isa 48:20Jer 50:15Lam 1:10Dan 5:23Jer 51:10-11Lam 2:6-7Psa 149:6-9Dan 5:3-5
to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,
the vengeance of his temple.
“Call together the archers against Babylon, Isa 47:10Jer 51:56Dan 4:37Exo 10:3Jer 50:14-15Rev 18:62Th 2:4Dan 11:36
all those who bend the bow.
Encamp against her all around.
Let none of it escape.
Pay her back according to her work.
According to all that she has done, do to her;
for she has been proud against the LORD,
against the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. Jer 49:26Jer 18:21Jer 9:21Isa 13:15-18Jer 48:15Jer 50:36Jer 51:3-4Jer 51:56-57
All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says the LORD.
“Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies; Jer 21:13Jer 50:291Pe 5:5Ezk 39:1Hab 2:4-5Jas 4:6Nam 2:13Dan 4:30-31
“for your day has come,
the time that I will visit you.
The proud one will stumble and fall, Jer 21:14Jer 49:27Isa 10:12-15Amo 2:5Rev 18:8Amo 1:10Amo 1:12Amo 1:14
and no one will raise him up.
I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it will devour all who are around him.”
The LORD of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. Exo 9:2-3Isa 14:17Isa 58:6Exo 9:17-18Isa 47:6Jer 50:17-18Exo 5:2Exo 8:2
All who took them captive hold them fast.
They refuse to let them go.
Their Redeemer is strong. Isa 54:5Isa 41:14Isa 47:4Jer 15:21Jer 51:36Isa 43:14Mic 7:9Psa 35:1
The LORD of Armies is his name.
He will thoroughly plead their cause,
that he may give rest to the earth,
and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
“A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says the LORD, Jer 47:6Dan 5:1-2Dan 5:30Dan 5:7-8Hos 11:6Jer 51:57Ezk 14:2Isa 19:11-13
“and on the inhabitants of Babylon,
on her princes,
and on her wise men.
A sword is on the boasters, Jer 49:22Isa 44:25Nam 3:131Ti 4:21Ti 6:42Ch 25:162Sa 17:142Th 2:9-11
and they will become fools.
A sword is on her mighty men,
and they will be dismayed.
A sword is on their horses, Jer 51:30Nam 3:13Jer 25:20Jer 48:41Jer 51:21Isa 19:16Ezk 30:5Isa 45:3
on their chariots,
and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her;
and they will become as women.
A sword is on her treasures,
and they will be robbed.
A drought is on her waters, Isa 44:27Jer 50:2Rev 16:12Jer 51:47Jer 51:52Act 17:16Dan 3:1-30Dan 5:4
and they will be dried up;
for it is a land of engraved images,
and they are mad over idols.
Therefore the wild animals of the desert Isa 13:20-22Rev 18:2Jer 25:12Isa 14:23Isa 34:11-17Jer 50:12-13Jer 51:26Jer 51:37-38
with the wolves will dwell there.
The ostriches will dwell therein.
It will be inhabited no more forever,
neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says the LORD, Gen 19:24-252Pe 2:6Isa 13:19-20Jer 49:18Jud 1:7Luk 17:28-30Amo 4:11Deu 29:23
“so no man will dwell there,
neither will any son of man live therein.
“Behold, a people comes from the north. Jer 51:27-28Isa 13:2-5Jer 50:9Jer 6:22-23Isa 13:17-18Jer 25:14Jer 50:2-3Jer 51:1-2
A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
They take up bow and spear. Isa 5:30Isa 13:17-18Isa 47:6Jer 47:3Jer 8:16Hab 1:6-8Isa 14:6Isa 5:28
They are cruel, and have no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea.
They ride on horses,
everyone set in array,
as a man to the battle,
against you, daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, Jer 49:24Jer 51:31Dan 5:5-6Isa 13:6-8Isa 21:3-4Jer 49:22
and his hands become feeble.
Anguish has taken hold of him,
pains as of a woman in labor.
Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion Jer 49:19-21Exo 15:11Isa 40:25Isa 41:25Isa 43:10Isa 46:11Isa 46:9Psa 89:6
from the thickets of the Jordan against the strong habitation;
for I will suddenly make them run away from it.
Whoever is chosen,
I will appoint him over it,
for who is like me?
Who will appoint me a time?
Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD Jer 49:20Jer 51:10-11Act 4:28Eph 1:11Isa 14:24-27Isa 46:10-11Jer 37:10Psa 33:10-11
that he has taken against Babylon;
and his purposes
that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
Surely they will drag them away,
even the little ones of the flock.
Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
The earth trembles at the noise of the taking of Babylon. Jer 49:21Ezk 26:18Ezk 31:16Rev 18:9-19Ezk 32:10Isa 14:9-10
The cry is heard among the nations.