The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

Chapter 51

Judgment, destruction, and desolation will come upon Babylon for her sins—Israel is commanded, Flee from Babylon—Israel is the Lord’s rod to destroy all kingdoms.

 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against aBabylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying bwind;

 And will send unto Babylon afanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.



 For Israel hath not been aforsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

 Flee aout of the midst of bBabylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.


 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: ahowl for her; take bbalm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own acountry: for her bjudgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

 10 The Lord hath abrought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.



 13 O thou that dwellest upon many awaters, abundant in btreasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

 14 The Lord of hosts hath asworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

 15 He hath amade the earth by his bpower, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his cunderstanding.


 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the agraven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.


 19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the aformer of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.





 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their aevil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord.

 25 Behold, I am against thee, O adestroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.





 30 The mighty men of Babylon have aforborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as bwomen: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

 31 One apost shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to bshew the king of cBabylon that his city is dtaken at one end,



 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 adragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.


 36 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will adry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

 37 And aBabylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for bdragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.




 41 How is aSheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!







 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall asing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the bnorth, saith the Lord.



 51 We are aconfounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the bsanctuaries of the Lord’s house.







 58 Thus saith the Lord 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 avain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.


 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these awords that are written against Babylon.


 62 Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to acut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be bdesolate for ever.

