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 raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. Jer 15:7Mat 3:12Isa 41:16Ezk 5:12Jer 50:14-15Jer 50:29Jer 50:32Jer 51:27-28
They will empty her land;
for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.
Against him who bends, 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
also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail.
Don’t spare her young men!
Utterly destroy all her army!
They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, Jer 49:26Isa 13:15Jer 50:30Isa 14:19Jer 50:37
and thrust through in her streets.
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, Rom 11:1-2Hos 4:1Zec 12:6Zec 12:81Sa 12:22Amo 9:8-9Ezk 22:24-31Ezk 8:17
by the LORD of Armies;
though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Jer 50:8Jer 25:14Jer 50:15Jer 50:28Jer 51:45Num 16:261Ti 5:22Isa 48:20
Everyone save his own life!
Don’t be cut off in her iniquity,
for it is the time of the LORD’s vengeance.
He will give to her a recompense.
Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, Rev 14:8Rev 17:4Rev 17:2Rev 18:3Dan 2:32Dan 2:38Dan 3:1-7Hab 2:15-16
who made all the earth drunk.
The nations have drunk of her wine;
therefore the nations have gone mad.
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Isa 21:9Jer 46:11Rev 14:8Jer 48:20Jer 50:2Rev 18:2Dan 5:24Dan 5:31
Wail for her!
Take balm for her pain.
Perhaps she may be healed.
“We would have healed Babylon, Jer 50:16Isa 13:14Rev 18:5Jer 46:16Dan 4:20-22Ezr 9:62Ch 28:9Isa 47:15
but she is not healed.
Forsake her,
and let’s each go into his own country;
for her judgment reaches to heaven,
and is lifted up even to the skies.
‘The LORD has produced our righteousness. Jer 50:28Isa 51:11Psa 37:6Isa 40:2Isa 52:9-10Jer 31:6-9Mic 7:9-10Psa 102:19-21
Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.’
“Make the arrows sharp! Jer 46:4Jer 50:45Jer 46:9Jer 50:91Ch 5:261Ki 11:141Ki 11:232Ch 36:22
Hold the shields firmly!
The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes,
because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it;
for it is the vengeance of the LORD,
the vengeance of his temple.
Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Isa 13:2Jer 51:11Jer 51:29Nam 2:1Isa 8:9-10Jer 46:3-5Jer 50:2Jer 51:27
Make the watch strong!
Set the watchmen,
and prepare the ambushes;
for the LORD has both purposed and done
that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, Rev 17:1Isa 45:3Rev 17:15Gen 6:13Jer 51:361Pe 4:72Pe 2:3Amo 8:2
your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
The LORD of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, Amo 6:8Jer 49:13Jer 50:15Jol 2:25Heb 6:13Jdg 6:5Jer 46:23Jer 51:27
‘Surely I will fill you with men,
as with locusts,
and they will lift up a shout against you.’
“He has 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 has established the world by his wisdom.
By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
When he utters his voice, Psa 135:7Jon 1:4Psa 18:13Jer 10:12-13Amo 9:7Exo 10:13Exo 10:19Exo 14:21
there is a roar of waters in the heavens,
and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain,
and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
“Every man has become stupid and without 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 disappointed by his image,
for his molten images are falsehood,
and there is no breath in them.
They are vanity, Act 14:15Exo 12:12Isa 19:1Isa 46:1Jer 10:15Jer 10:8Jer 18:15Jer 43:12-13
a work of delusion.
In the time of their visitation, 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 formed all things,
including the tribe of his inheritance.
The LORD of Armies is his name.
“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. Isa 41:15-16Mic 4:13Isa 37:26Zec 9:13-14Isa 14:5-6Jer 27:5-7Isa 10:5Jer 25:9
With you I will break the nations into pieces.
With you I will destroy kingdoms.
With you I will break in pieces Exo 15:1Zec 10:5Hag 2:22Mic 5:10Nam 2:13Zec 12:4Psa 46:9Rev 19:18
the horse and his rider.
With you I will break in pieces 2Ch 36:17Isa 13:181Sa 15:3Ezk 9:6Deu 32:25Isa 13:16Jer 6:11Lam 2:11
the chariot and him who rides therein.
With you I will break in pieces
man and woman.
With you I will break in pieces
the old man and the youth.
With you I will break in pieces
the young man and the virgin.
With you I will break in pieces Jer 51:57
the shepherd and his flock.
With you I will break in pieces
the farmer and his yoke.
With you I will break in pieces
governors and deputies.
“I will give to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says the LORD. Jer 50:15Isa 63:1-4Rev 18:241Th 2:15-16Isa 47:6-9Isa 51:22-23Isa 61:2Isa 66:6
“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says the LORD, Rev 8:8Zec 4:7Jer 50:31Isa 13:2Jer 51:53Jer 51:58Dan 4:30Gen 11:4
“which destroys all the earth.
I will stretch out my hand on you,
roll you down from the rocks,
and will make you a burned mountain.
They won’t take a cornerstone from you, Isa 13:19-22Jer 50:12-13Jer 51:43Rev 18:20-24Isa 14:23Isa 34:8-17Jer 50:40-41Jer 51:29
nor a stone for foundations;
but you will be desolate forever,” says the LORD.
“Set up a standard in the land! Gen 10:31Ch 1:6Gen 8:4Jer 25:14Jer 50:2Jer 51:12Isa 13:2-5Isa 18:3
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations against her!
Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz!
Appoint a marshal against her!
Cause the horses to come up as the swarming locusts!
Prepare against her the nations, Jer 51:11Jer 25:251Ch 1:5Dan 5:28-30Dan 6:8Dan 8:20Dan 8:3-4Dan 9:1
the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
The land trembles and is in pain; Jer 51:11-12Jer 51:43Jer 8:16Amo 8:8Isa 13:19-20Jer 10:10Jer 50:13Jer 50:45
for the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
The mighty men 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 remain in their strongholds.
Their might has failed.
They have become as women.
Her dwelling places are set on fire.
Her bars are broken.
One runner will run 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 one messenger to meet another,
to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
So the passages are seized. Isa 44:27Jer 50:37-38Jer 51:30
They have burned the reeds with fire.
The men of war are frightened.”
For the LORD of Armies, 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 when it is trodden.
Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
“Nebuchadnezzar the 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 made me an empty vessel.
He has, like a monster, swallowed me up.
He has filled his mouth with my delicacies.
He has cast me out.
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” Jer 50:29Rev 18:20Isa 26:20-21Jas 2:13Jdg 9:20Jdg 9:24Jdg 9:56-57Mat 7:2
the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,
“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
will Jerusalem say.
Therefore 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 cause,
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea,
and make her fountain dry.
Babylon will become heaps, Rev 18:2Jer 18:16Jer 25:9Jer 51:25-26Rev 18:21-232Ch 29:8Isa 13:19-22Isa 14:23
a dwelling place for jackals,
an astonishment, and a hissing,
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 as lions’ cubs.
When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, Jer 51:57Jer 25:27Isa 22:12-14Nam 1:10Nam 3:11Dan 5:1-4Dan 5:30Isa 21:4-5
and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,
and sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake up,” says 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 is taken! Jer 25:26Isa 13:19Jer 49:252Ch 7:21Dan 2:38Dan 4:22Dan 4:30Dan 5:1-5
How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
The sea has come up on Babylon. Isa 8:7-8Dan 9:26Ezk 27:26-34Jer 51:55Luk 21:25Psa 18:16Psa 18:4Psa 42:7
She is covered with the multitude of its 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 land, and a desert,
a land in which no man dwells.
No son of man passes by it.
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, Jer 51:34Jer 51:58Isa 2:2Jer 50:22Ch 36:7Dan 1:2Dan 3:2-3Dan 3:29
and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up.
The nations will not flow any more to him.
Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
“My people, go away from the middle of her, Isa 48:20Jer 51:6Rev 18:42Co 6:17Act 2:40Gen 19:12-16Jer 50:8Num 16:26
and each of you save yourselves from the LORD’s fierce anger.
Don’t let your heart faint. 2Ki 19:7Isa 13:3-5Isa 19:2Isa 21:2-31Sa 14:16-202Ch 20:23Jdg 7:22Luk 21:28
Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land.
For news will come one year,
and after that in another year news will come,
and violence in the land,
ruler against ruler.
Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; Jer 50:2Isa 46:1-2Jer 51:52Isa 21:9Jer 11:22Jer 13:21Jer 23:34Jer 25:12
and her whole land will be confounded.
All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
Then the heavens and the earth, Isa 44:23Rev 18:20Jer 50:3Isa 48:20Isa 49:13Jer 50:41Jer 50:9Jer 51:10-11
and all that is therein,
will sing for joy over Babylon;
for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says the LORD.
“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, Jer 50:29Jer 51:24Psa 137:8-9Jas 2:13Jdg 1:7Jer 50:11Jer 50:17-18Jer 50:33-34
so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
You who have escaped the sword, go! Jer 44:28Psa 122:6Dan 9:2-3Ezr 1:3-5Isa 51:11Isa 52:11-12Jer 51:45Rev 18:4
Don’t stand still!
Remember the LORD from afar,
and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
“We are confounded Lam 1:10Psa 44:13-16Psa 74:3-7Psa 79:4Dan 11:31Dan 8:11-14Dan 9:26-27Ezk 24:21
because we have heard reproach.
Confusion has covered our faces,
for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.”
“Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD, Jer 51:47Jer 50:38Dan 5:30-31Ezk 30:24Isa 13:15-16
“that I will execute judgment on her engraved images;
and through all her land the wounded will groan.
Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, Gen 11:4Jer 49:16Jer 51:25Oba 1:3-4Psa 139:8-10Amo 9:4Dan 4:30Ezk 31:9-11
and though she should fortify the height of her strength,
yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says the LORD.
“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, Jer 50:22Jer 48:3-5Jer 50:46Isa 13:6-9Isa 15:5Jer 50:27Jer 50:43Rev 18:17-19
and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
For the LORD lays Babylon waste, Jer 25:10Ezk 26:3Isa 15:1Isa 17:13Isa 24:8-11Isa 47:5Jer 50:10-15Jer 51:38-39
and destroys out of her the great voice!
Their waves roar like many waters.
The noise of their voice is uttered.
For the destroyer has come on her, Jer 51:6Hab 2:8Jer 51:48Psa 46:9Psa 94:1-2Rev 19:2Deu 32:35Isa 59:18
even on Babylon.
Her mighty men are taken.
Their bows are broken in pieces,
for the LORD is a God of retribution.
He will surely repay.
I will make her princes, her wise men, Jer 46:18Jer 25:27Jer 48:15Jer 51:39Psa 76:5-6Dan 5:1-4Dan 5:30-31Hab 2:15-17
her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk.
They will sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake up,”
says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies.
The LORD of Armies says: Hab 2:13Jer 50:15Jer 51:44Jer 51:64Isa 45:1-2Isa 65:23Jer 51:30Jer 51:9
“The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown.
Her high gates will be burned with fire.
The peoples will labor for vanity,
and the nations for the fire;
and they will be weary.”
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster. Jer 32:12Jer 36:4Jer 28:1Jer 45:1Jer 52:1 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon. Hab 2:2-3Isa 30:8Jer 30:2-3Jer 36:32Dan 12:4Isa 8:1-4Jer 36:2-4Rev 1:11 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words, Mrk 13:11Th 4:181Th 5:27Col 4:16Jer 29:1-2Mat 24:1Rev 1:3 and say, ‘LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that 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 It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates. Rev 18:21Jer 19:10-11 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’” Jer 51:58Job 31:40Nam 1:8-9Psa 72:20Rev 18:21Hab 2:13Jer 25:27Jer 51:42
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.