Bible in 90 Days
48 Concerning Moab, thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is wasted! Kirjathaim is shamed and captured! Misgab is shamed and afraid!
2 “Moab shall no longer boast. In Heshbon, they have devised evil against it. Come, and let us destroy it, so that it is no longer a nation! Also, you shall be destroyed, O madmen, and the sword shall pursue you!
3 “There shall be a voice of crying from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction.
4 “Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused their cry to be heard.
5 “For at the going up of Luhith, the mourner shall go up with weeping. For in the going down of Horonaim, the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
6 “Flee and save your lives! And be like the heath in the wilderness.
7 “For because you hast trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity together with his priests and his princes.
8 “And the destroyer shall come upon all cities, and no city shall escape. The valley shall also perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.
9 “Give wings to Moab, so that he may flee and get away. For his cities shall be desolate, without any to dwell in them.
10 “Cursed is the one who does the work of the LORD deceitfully. And cursed is the one who restrains his sword from blood.
11 “Moab has been at rest from his youth, and he has settled on his dregs, and has not been poured from vessel to vessel. Nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore, his taste remained in him, and his scent has not changed.
12 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will send to him those who shall carry him away, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.
13 “And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the House of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
14 “How can you think ‘We are mighty and strong men of war?’
15 “Moab is destroyed, and his cities burnt up. And his chosen young men have gone down to slaughter,” says the King Whose Name is The LORD of Hosts.
16 “The destruction of Moab is ready to come, and his plague hastens quickly.
17 “All you who are around him, mourn for him. All you who know his name, say, ‘How the strong staff has broken, the beautiful rod!
18 “You, daughter who inhabits Dibon, come down from glory and sit in thirst. For the destroyer of Moab shall come upon you. He shall destroy your strongholds.
19 “You who dwell in Aroer, stand by the way and behold. Ask him who flees and who escapes, saying, ‘What has been done?’
20 “Moab is shamed, for it is destroyed. Howl and cry! Tell it in Arnon, that Moab is made waste,
21 “and judgment has come upon the plain country, upon Holon and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath,
22 “and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon the House of Diblathaim,
23 “and upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth Gamul, and upon Beth Meon,
24 “and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
25 “The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken,” says the LORD.
26 “Make him drunk. Because he magnified himself against the LORD, Moab shall wallow in his vomit. And he shall also be in derision.
27 “For did you not deride Israel, as though he had been found among thieves? For when you speak of him, you are moved.
28 “O you who dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rocks! And be like the dove that makes her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.
29 “We have heard the pride of Moab (He is exceedingly prideful), his stoutness and his arrogancy, his pride and the haughtiness of his heart.
30 “I know his wrath,” says the LORD, “but it shall not be so. For his bluster is not right.
31 “Therefore, I will howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab, shall mourn for the men of Kir Heres.
32 “O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you as I wept for Jazer! Your plants have gone over the sea. They have come to the sea of Jazer. The destroyer has fallen upon your summer fruits, and upon your vintage.
33 “And joy and gladness have been taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab. And I have caused wine to fail from the winepress. No one shall tread with shouting. Their shouting shall not be joyous.
34 “From the cry of Heshbon to Elealeh and to Jahaz they have made their noise, from Zoar to Horonaim (as a heifer of three years old), for the waters of Nimrim shall also be wasted.
35 “Moreover, I will cause to cease in Moab,” says the LORD, “him who offers in the high places, and him who burns incense to his gods.
36 “Therefore, My Heart shall sound for Moab like a flute. And My Heart shall sound like a flute for the men of Kir Heres, because the riches that he has gotten have perished.
37 “For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. Upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
38 “Mourning shall be upon all the housetops of Moab, and in all its streets. For I have broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure,” says the LORD.
39 “They shall howl, saying, ‘How is he destroyed? How has Moab turned the back with shame?’ So shall Moab be a derision and a fear to all those around him.”
40 For thus says the LORD: “Behold, one shall flee as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
41 “The cities are taken, and the strongholds are won, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that time shall be as the heart of a woman in labor.
42 “And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has set himself up against the LORD.
43 “Fear, and pit, and snare upon you, O inhabitant of Moab,” says the LORD.
44 “He who escapes from the fear shall fall in the pit. And he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For I will bring upon it, upon Moab, the year of their visitation,” says the LORD.
45 “Those who fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon, because of the force. For the fire came out of Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon, and devoured the corner of Moab, and the top of the seditious children.
46 “Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh perish! For your sons are taken captives and your daughters led into captivity!
47 “Yet I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days,” says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
49 To the children of Ammon, thus says the LORD: “Has Israel no sons? Or has he no heir? Why has their king inherited Gad, and his people dwelt in its cities?
2 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will cause a noise of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be a desolate heap. And her daughters shall be burnt with fire. Then Israel shall take possession of those who possessed him,” says the LORD.
3 “Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is wasted! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Gird yourselves with sackcloth! Mourn and run to and fro by the hedges! For their king shall go into captivity, as will his priests and his princes.
4 “Why do you glory in the valleys? Your valley flows away, O rebellious daughter. She trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who shall come to me?’
5 “Behold, I will bring a fear upon you,” says the LORD God of Hosts, “from all those who are around you. And you shall be scattered, every man before and behind. And no one shall gather him who flees.
6 “And afterward, I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon.”
7 Thus says the LORD of Hosts to Edom: “Is wisdom no longer in Teman? Has counsel perished from their children? Has their wisdom vanished?
8 “Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, you inhabitants of Dedan! For I have brought the destruction of Esau upon him, the time of his visitation.
9 “If the grape gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleaning grapes? If thieves come by night, they will destroy until they have enough.
10 “For I have laid Esau bare. I have uncovered his secrets, and he shall not be able to hide himself. His seed is wasted, and his brethren, and his neighbors. He is no more.
11 “Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. And let your widows trust in Me.”
12 For thus says the LORD: “Behold, those whose sentence it was to not drink from the cup, have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who shall escape free? You shall not go free, but you shall surely drink from it.
13 “For I have sworn by Myself,” says the LORD, “that Bozrah shall be waste, a reproach, a desolation, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual desolations.”
14 I have heard a report from the LORD. And an ambassador has been sent to the heathen. “Gather together and come against her! And rise up to the battle!
15 “For lo, I will make you but small among the heathen, and despised among men.
16 “Your fear, and the pride of your heart, have deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock and hold the height of the hill. Though you would make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says the LORD.
17 “Also, Edom shall be desolate. Everyone who goes by him shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all his plagues,
18 “as in the overthrow of Sodom and of Gomorrah and the places nearby,” says the LORD. No man shall dwell there, nor shall the sons of men remain in it.
19 “Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the strong dwelling place. For I will make him hurry away from her. And who is the chosen man whom I may appoint against her? For who is like Me? And who will summon Me? And who is the shepherd who will stand before Me?”
20 Therefore, hear the counsel of the LORD that He has devised against Edom, and His purpose that He has conceived against the inhabitants of Teman. Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out. He shall make their habitations desolate with them.
21 The Earth is moved at the noise of their fall. The cry of their voice is heard in the Red Sea.
22 Behold, He shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread His wings over Bozrah. And on that day the hearts of the strong men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in labor.
23 To Damascus He says: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard evil tidings. They are faint-hearted and cannot rest, as if on a fearful sea.
24 “Damascus is discouraged, turns herself to flight, and fear has seized her. Anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in labor.
25 “How is the glorious city not forsaken, the city of My joy?
26 “Therefore, her young men shall fall in her streets. And all her men of war shall be cut off on that day,” says the LORD of Hosts.
27 “And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, which shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”
28 Of Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor—which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, shall strike—thus says the LORD: “Arise! Go up to Kedar and destroy the men of the East.
29 “They shall take away their tents and their flocks. Yea, they shall take away their curtains and all their vessels and their camels for themselves. And they shall cry to them, ‘Fear is on every side!’
30 “Flee! Go far away! Dwell in the depths, O, you inhabitants of Hazor!” says the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, has taken counsel against you, and has devised a purpose against you.
31 “Arise! Get up to the wealthy nation that dwells securely,” says the LORD, “which has neither gates nor bars, but dwells alone.
32 “And their camels shall be a plunder, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil. And I will scatter them to all winds, and to the utmost corners. And I will bring their destruction from all sides,” says the LORD.
33 “And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, desolation forever. No man shall dwell there, nor shall the sons of men remain in it.”
34 The Words of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the Prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying,
35 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their strength.
36 ‘And upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of Heaven and will scatter them towards all these winds. And there shall be no nation to where the fugitives of Elam shall not come.
37 ‘For I will cause Elam to be afraid before their enemies, and before those who seek their lives, and will bring upon them a plague, the indignation of My wrath,’ says the LORD, ‘And I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
38 ‘And I will set My throne in Elam. And I will destroy the king and the princes from there,’ says the LORD, ‘but in the latter days, I will bring back the captivity of Elam,’ says the LORD.”
50 The Word that the LORD spoke concerning Babel, and concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the ministry of Jeremiah the Prophet:
2 “Declare among the nations, and proclaim it, and set up a standard! Proclaim it, do not conceal it! Say, ‘Babel is taken! Bel is put to shame! Merodach is broken down! Her idols are humiliated, and their images have burst in pieces!’
3 “For out of the North there comes up a nation against her which shall make her land waste. And no one shall dwell in her. They shall flee and depart, both man and beast.
4 “In those days and at that time,” says the LORD, “the children of Israel shall come—they and the children of Judah going together and weeping—as they go and seek the LORD their God.
5 “They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces looking there, saying, ‘Come and let us cling to the LORD in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten.’
6 “My people have been like lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray and have turned them away to the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill, forgetting their resting place.
7 “All that found them have devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We have not offended,’ because they have sinned against the LORD, the Habitation of Justice, the LORD, the Hope of Their Fathers.
8 “Flee from the midst of Babel, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flock.
9 “For lo, I will raise, and cause to come up against Babel, a multitude of mighty nations from the North country. And they shall set themselves in formation against her, by which she shall be taken. Their arrows shall be like an expert strong man’s. For not one shall return empty.
10 “And Chaldea shall be a spoil. All who plunder her shall be satisfied,” says the LORD.
11 “Because you were glad and rejoiced in destroying My heritage. Because you have grown fat as the calves in the grass, and neighed like strong horses,
12 “your mother shall be very ashamed. And she who bore you shall be made least. Behold, the uttermost of the nations shall be a desert, a dry land, and a wilderness.
13 “Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited but shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babel shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
14 “Put yourselves in formation against Babel all around. All you who bend the bow, shoot at her. Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.
15 “Cry against her all around! She has given her hand. Her foundations have fallen. Her walls are destroyed. For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance upon her! As she has done, do to her!
16 “Destroy the sower from Babel, and he who handles the scythe in the time of harvest. Because of the sword of the oppressor, everyone shall turn to his people. And everyone shall flee to his own land.
17 “Israel is like scattered sheep. The lions have dispersed them. First, the king of Assyria devoured him. And last, this Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, broke his bones.”
18 Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will visit the king of Babel and his land, as I have visited the king of Assyria.
19 “And I will bring Israel back to his habitation. He shall feed in Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20 “In those days and at that time,” says the LORD, “the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none — and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found — for I will be merciful to those whom I reserve.
21 “Go up against the land of the rebels, against it and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Destroy and lay it waste after them,” says the LORD, “and do according to all that I have Commanded you.
22 “A cry of battle is in the land, and of great destruction!
23 “How the hammer of the whole world has been destroyed and broken! How desolate Babel has become among the nations!
24 “I have ensnared you, and you are captured, O Babel. And you were not aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have striven against the LORD.
25 “The LORD has opened His treasure, and has brought forth the weapons of His wrath. For this is the work of the LORD God of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 “Come against her from the utmost border. Open her storehouses, tread on her as on sheaves, and destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.
27 “Destroy all her young bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their reckoning!”
28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babel to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of His Temple:
29 “Call up the archers against Babel! All you who bend the bow, besiege it all around! Let no one escape! Repay her 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!”
30 “Therefore, her young men shall fall in the streets. And all her men of war shall be destroyed on that day,” says the LORD.
31 “Behold, I come to you, O proud,” says the LORD God of Hosts, “For your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
32 “And the proud shall stumble and fall; and no one shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities; and it shall devour all around him.”
33 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “The children of Israel, and the children of Judah, were oppressed together. And all who took them captives held them and would not let them go.
34 “Their strong Redeemer, Whose Name is the LORD of Hosts, He shall maintain their cause, so that He may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babel.
35 “A sword upon the Chaldeans,” says the LORD, “and upon the inhabitants of Babel, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men!
36 “A sword upon the soothsayers; and they shall become fools! A sword upon her strong men; and they shall be afraid!
37 “A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the multitude that is in the midst of her; and they shall be like women! A sword upon her treasures; and they shall be plundered!
38 “A drought upon her waters; and they shall be dried up! For it is the land of graven images; and they boast of their idols.
39 “Therefore, the Ziims shall dwell with the Iims; and the ostriches shall dwell there. For it shall no longer be inhabited; nor shall it be inhabited from generation to generation.
40 “As God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with its nearby places,” says the LORD, “so shall no man dwell there; nor shall the son of man remain there.
41 “Behold, a people shall come from the North, and a great nation. And many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the Earth.
42 “They shall hold the bow and the buckler. They are cruel and unmerciful. Their voice shall roar like the sea. And they shall ride upon horses, be put in formation, like men to battle, against you, O daughter of Babel.
43 “The king of Babel has heard the report of them; and his hands grew feeble. Sorrow came upon him, sorrow as of a woman in labor.
44 “Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan to the strong habitation. For I will make them rest; and I will make them hurry away from her. And who is chosen whom I may appoint against her? For who is like Me; and who will summon Me; and who is the shepherd who will stand before Me?”
45 Therefore, hear the counsel of the LORD that He has advised against Babel, and His purpose that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out. Surely, He shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise of the winning of Babel, the Earth is moved; and the cry is heard among the nations!
51 Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will raise up a destroying wind against Babel, and against the inhabitants who lift up their hearts against Me.
2 “And I will send fanners to Babel which shall fan her and shall empty her land. For on the day of trouble, they shall be against her on every side.
3 “Also, to the bender who bends his bow, and to him who lifts himself up in his armor: ‘Do not spare her young men. But destroy all her army.’
4 “Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those who are thrust through in her streets.
5 “For neither Israel nor Judah has been widowed by his God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.”
6 Flee out of the midst of Babel; and everyone deliver his soul! Do not be destroyed in her iniquity! For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense!
7 Babel has been as a golden cup in the LORD’s Hand, that made all the Earth drunk. The nations have drunk her wine; therefore, the nations rage.
8 Babel has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Howl for her! Bring balm for her sore, if she may be healed.
9 We wanted to heal Babel; but she was not healed. Forsake her and let everyone go into his own country. For her judgment has come up into Heaven and has been lifted up to the clouds.
10 The LORD has brought forth our righteousness. Come and let us declare the work of the LORD our God in Zion!
11 Make the arrows bright. Gather the shields. The LORD has raised up the spirit of the king of the Medes. For His purpose is against Babel, to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of His Temple.
12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babel. Make the watch strong. Set up the watchmen. Prepare the scouts. For the LORD has both devised and done that which He spoke against the inhabitants of Babel.
13 O you who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures! Your end has come, the end of your covetousness!
14 The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely, I will fill you with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall cry and shout against you!”
15 He has made the Earth by His power, and established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the sky by His discretion.
16 By His Voice He gives the multitude of waters in the sky; and He causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the Earth. He turns lightning to rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.
17 All mankind is unintentionally brutish. Every metalsmith withers before his carved image. For his molten image is falsehood; and there is no breath in it.
18 They are meaningless, the work of errors. At the time of their reckoning, they shall perish.
19 The Portion of Jacob is not like them. For He is the Maker of All Things, and the Rod of His Inheritance. The LORD of Hosts is His Name.
20 “You are My hammer, and weapons of war. For with you I will break the nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms;
21 “And by you I will break horse and horseman; and by you I will break the chariot and its rider.
22 “By you, also, I will break man and woman; and by you I will break old and young; and by you I will break the young man and the maid.
23 “I will also break the shepherd and his flock by you. And by you I will break the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and by you I will break the dukes and princes.
24 “And I will render to Babel, and to all the inhabitants of the Chaldeans, all their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight,” says the LORD.
25 “Behold, I come to you, O destroying mountain which destroys all the Earth,” says the LORD! “And I will stretch out My Hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
26 “They shall take neither a stone for a corner nor a stone for foundations. But you shall be destroyed forever,” says the LORD.
27 Set up a standard in the land. Blow the trumpets among the nations. Prepare the nations against her. Call up the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her. Appoint the prince against her. Cause horses to come up as rough locusts.
28 Prepare the nations against her, with the kings of the Medes, its dukes, and its princes, and all the land of his dominion.
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow. For the plan of the LORD shall be performed against Babel, to make the land of Babel waste, without an inhabitant.
30 The strong men of Babel have ceased to fight. They have remained in their strongholds. Their strength has failed; they were like women. They have burnt her dwelling places. Her bars are broken.
31 A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a messenger to meet a messenger, to show the king of Babel that his city has been captured on all sides,
32 and that the passages are blocked, and the reeds burnt with fire, and the men of war frightened.
33 For thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “The daughter of Babel is like a threshing floor at the time of her treading. Yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, has devoured me and destroyed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He swallowed me up like a dragon and filled his belly with my delicacies and has cast me out.
35 “‘The plunder of me, and that which was left of me, be upon Babel,’ the inhabitant of Zion shall say. And ‘My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,’ Jerusalem shall say.
36 “Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will maintain your cause, and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up the sea and dry up her springs.
37 ‘And Babel shall be heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 ‘They shall roar together like lions, and yell as the lion’s whelps.
39 ‘In their heat I will make them feasts. And I will make them drunk, so that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,’ says the LORD.
40 ‘I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats.
41 ‘How Sheshach has been captured! And how the glory of the whole Earth has been captured! How Babel has become an astonishment among the nations!
42 ‘The sea has come up upon Babel. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43 ‘Her cities are desolate. The land is dry and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does the son of man pass by it.
44 ‘I will also visit Bel in Babel. And I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall no longer run to him. And the wall of Babel shall fall.
45 ‘My people! Go out from the midst of her! And deliver every man’s soul from the fierce wrath of the LORD,
46 ‘lest your heart faint, and you fear the rumor that shall be heard in the land. The rumor shall come this year. And after that, in another year, a rumor shall come, and cruelty in the land, and ruler against ruler.
47 ‘Therefore, behold, the days come that I will bring judgment upon the images of Babel. And the whole land shall be ashamed; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48 ‘Then the heavens and the Earth, and all that is in them, shall rejoice for Babel. For the destroyers shall come to her from the North,’ says the LORD.”
49 As Babel caused the slain of Israel to fall, so by Babel the slain of all the Earth fell.
50 You who have escaped the sword, go away! Do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away; and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach. Shame has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the Sanctuaries of the LORD’s House.
52 “Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will visit her carved images. And the wounded shall groan throughout all her land.
53 “Even if Babel were to mount up to the heavens, and even if she were to defend her strength on high, her destroyers shall still come from Me,” says the LORD.
54 A sound of a cry from Babel, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,
55 because the LORD has laid Babel waste and destroyed her great voice. And her waves shall roar like great waters. A sound was made by their noise
56 because the destroyer has come upon her (upon Babel) and her strong men are taken; their bows are broken. For the LORD God, Who repays, shall surely repay.
57 “And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,” says the King, Whose Name is the LORD of Hosts.
58 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “The thick wall of Babel shall be broken, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, for they shall be weary.”
59 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 into Babel, in the fourth year of his reign (and this Seraiah was a peaceable Prince):
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a Book all the evil that would come upon Babel, all these things that are written against Babel.
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babel, and shall see and shall read all these words,
62 “then you shall say, ‘O, LORD, You have spoken against this place, to destroy it, so that none would remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it should be desolate forever!’
63 “And when you have finished reading this book, you shall bind a stone to it and cast it in the midst of Euphrates,
64 “and shall say, ‘Thus shall Babel be drowned 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.
52 Zedekiah was twenty-one 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 evil in the eyes of the LORD, the same as all that Jehoiakim had done.
3 For the following happened in Jerusalem and Judah at that time, until He had cast them out from His presence, because of the wrath of the LORD. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babel.
4 Now, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it and built forts against it all around.
5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
6 Now, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no more food for the people of the land.
7 Then, the city was broken up. And all the men of war fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (though the Chaldeans were near the city, all around). And they went by way of the wilderness.
8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and took Zedekiah in the desert of Jericho. And all the army was scattered from him.
9 Then they took the king and carried him up to the king of Babel, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
10 And the king of Babel killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
11 Then, he put out the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babel bound him in chains and carried him to Babel and put him in prison until the day of his death.
12 Now, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel) came Nebuzaradan, chief steward, who stood before the king of Babel in Jerusalem
13 and burnt the House of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem. And he burnt all the great houses with fire.
14 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the chief steward broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
15 Then, Nebuzaradan the chief steward carried away captive some of the poor people, and the rest of the people who remained in the city, and those who had fled and fallen to the king of Babel, with the rest of the multitude.
16 But Nebuzaradan the chief steward left some of the poor of the land to dress the vines and to till the land.
17 Also, the bronze pillars that were in the House of the LORD, and the pedestals, and the bronze sea that was in the House of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke. And they carried all their bronze to Babel.
18 Also, the pots and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the incense dishes, and all the bronze vessels with which they ministered, they took away.
19 And the bowls and the ashpans and the basins and the pots and the candlesticks and the incense dishes and the cups—all that was of gold and all that was of silver—the chief steward took away
20 with the two pillars, one sea, and twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases which King Solomon had had made for the House of the LORD. The bronze of all these vessels was without measure.
21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. It measured twelve cubits around and its thickness was four fingers (it was hollow).
22 And a capital of bronze was upon it. And the height of one capital was five cubits with a network of pomegranates upon the capitals, all around, all of bronze. The second pillar and the pomegranates were also like these.
23 And there were ninety-six pomegranates per side. All the pomegranates, all around the network, were one hundred.
24 And the chief steward took Seraiah the High Priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door.
25 He also took a eunuch out of the city who had oversight of the men of war, and seven men who were in the king’s presence who were found in the city, and the principal quartermaster of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
26 Nebuzaradan, the chief steward, took them and brought them to the king of Babel, to Riblah.
27 And the king of Babel struck them and killed them in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus, Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
28 These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year: three thousand twenty-three Jews.
29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two people.
30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief steward carried away captive seven hundred forty-five Jewish people. All together there were four thousand six hundred.
31 And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-Merodach king of Babel, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of prison,
32 and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babel,
33 and changed his prison garments. And he regularly ate bread before him, all the days of his life.
34 His ration was a continual ration, given to him by the king of Babel, a portion each day, all the days of his life, until he died.
1 How solitary sits the city that was full of people! She is as a widow. She who was great among the nations, princess among the provinces, has been made a forced laborer!
2 She weeps continually in the night, and her tears run down her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt unfaithfully with her and are her enemies.
3 Judah has been carried away captive because of affliction and because of great servitude. She dwells among the heathen and finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her in the midst of her distress.
4 The ways of Zion lament, because no one comes to the solemn feasts; all her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in heaviness.
5 Her adversaries are her masters; her enemies prosper. For the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy,
6 and all her beauty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and of her rebellion, all her pleasant things that she had in times past, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and no one helped her. The adversary saw her and mocked her Sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore, she is filthy. All who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. Indeed, she sighs and turns away.
9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts. She did not remember her future, therefore she fell spectacularly. She had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction. For the enemy is proud.
10 The enemy has stretched out his hand upon all her pleasant things. For she has seen the heathen enter into her Sanctuary, whom You Commanded not to enter into Your congregation.
11 All her people sigh and seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul. See, O LORD, and consider. For I have become vile.
12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass this way? Behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted on the day of His fierce wrath.
13 From above has He sent fire into my bones, which prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet, turned me back. He has made me desolate, daily in heaviness.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound upon His Hand. They are wrapped and come up upon my neck. He has made my strength fall. The LORD has delivered me into their hands. I am not able to rise up.
15 The LORD has tread all my valiant men in the midst of me under foot. He has called an assembly against me, to destroy my young men. The LORD has tread the winepress upon the virgin, the daughter of Judah.
16 For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate because the enemy prevailed.
17 Zion stretches out her hands, and there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has appointed the enemies of Jacob all around him. Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman in the midst of them.
18 The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His Commandment. Hear, please, all people, and behold my sorrow! My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they sought their food to refresh their souls.
20 Behold, O LORD, how I am troubled! My bowels swell! My heart is turned within me, for I am full of heaviness! The sword bereaves in the street, as death does at home.
21 They have heard that I mourn. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble and are glad that You have done it. You will bring the day that You have pronounced; and they shall be like me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before You. Do to them as You have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many and my heart is heavy.
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