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Thus said Jehovah : Lo, I am stirring up against Babylon , And the inhabitants of Leb -- My withstanders, A destroying wind ,
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And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land , For they have been against it, Round about -- in the day of evil .
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Let not the treader tread his bow , Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host .
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And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans , And the pierced-through in her streets .
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For, not forsaken is Israel and Judah , By its God -- by Jehovah of Hosts , For their land hath been full of guilt, Against the Holy One of Israel .
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Flee ye from the midst of Babylon , And deliver ye each his soul , Be not cut off in its iniquity , For a time of vengeance it [is] to Jehovah , Recompence He is rendering to her.
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A golden cup [is] Babylon in the hand of Jehovah , Making drunk all the earth , Of its wine drunk have nations , Therefore boast themselves do nations .
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Suddenly hath Babylon fallen , Yea, it is broken , howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain , if so be it may be healed.
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We healed Babylon , and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go , each to his land , For come unto the heavens hath its judgment , And it hath been lifted up unto the clouds.
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Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousnesses, Come , and we recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God .
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Cleanse ye the arrows , fill the shields, Stirred up hath Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Madia, For against Babylon His device [is] to destroy it, For the vengeance of Jehovah it [is], The vengeance of His temple .
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Unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign , Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, For Jehovah hath both devised and done that which He spake , Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon .
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O dweller on many waters , abundant in treasures , Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain .
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Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee [with] men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against thee -- shouting.
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The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom , Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens ,
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At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters [are] in the heavens , And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth , Lightnings for rain He hath made, And He bringeth out wind from His treasures .
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Brutish hath been every man by knowledge , Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image , For false [is] his molten image , And there is no breath in them.
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Vanity [are] they -- work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.
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Not like these [is] the portion of Jacob , For He [is] former of all things , And [Israel is] the rod of His inheritance , Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name .
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An axe [art] thou to me -- weapons of war , And I have broken in pieces by thee nations , And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms,
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And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer,
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And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman , And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young , And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin ,
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And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects .
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And I have recompensed to Babylon , And to all inhabitants of Chaldea , All the evil that they have done in Zion , Before your eyes -- an affirmation of Jehovah .
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Lo, I [am] against thee, O destroying mount , An affirmation of Jehovah , That is destroying all the earth , And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks , And given thee for a burnt mountain .
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And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations , For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah .
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Lift ye up an ensign in the land , Blow a trumpet among nations , Sanctify against it nations , Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat , Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.
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Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media , Its governors and all its prefects , And all the land of its dominion.
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And shake doth the land , and it is pained, For stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah , To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
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Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might , they have become woman , They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars .
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Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon , For, captured hath been his city -- at the extremity.
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And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire , And the men of war have been troubled.
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For thus said Jehovah of Hosts , God of Israel , The daughter of Babylon [is] as a threshing-floor , The time of her threshing -- yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest .
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Devoured us , crushed us , hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , He hath set us [as] an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon , He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.
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My wrong, and [that of] my flesh [is] on Babylon , Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood [is] on the inhabitants of Chaldea , Say doth Jerusalem .
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Therefore, thus said Jehovah : Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance , And dried up its sea , and made its fountains dry .
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And Babylon hath been for heaps , A habitation of dragons , An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
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Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions ' whelps.
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In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not -- an affirmation of Jehovah .
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I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter , As rams with he-goats.
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How hath Sheshach been captured , Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth , How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations .
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Come up against Babylon hath the sea , With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered .
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Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land , and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man .
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And I have seen after Bel in Babylon , And I have brought forth that which he swallowed -- from his mouth , And flow no more unto him do nations , Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen .
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Go forth from its midst , O My people , And deliver ye, each his soul , Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah ,
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And lest your heart be tender, And ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land , And come in a year hath the report, And after it in a year the report, And violence [is] in the land , ruler against ruler;
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Therefore, lo, days are coming , And I have seen after the graven images of Babylon . And all its land is ashamed , And all its pierced ones do fall in its midst .
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And cried aloud against Babylon Have heavens and earth , and all that [is] in them, For, from the north come to it do the spoilers , An affirmation of Jehovah .
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Even Babylon [is] to fall , ye pierced of Israel , Even they of Babylon have fallen , Ye pierced of all the earth .
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Ye escaped of the sword , go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah , And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.
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We have been ashamed , for we heard reproach , Covered hath shame our faces , For come in have strangers, against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah .
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Therefore, lo, days are coming , An affirmation of Jehovah , And I have seen after its graven images , And in all its land groan doth the wounded.
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Because Babylon goeth up to the heavens , And because it fenceth the high place of its strength , From Me come into it do spoilers , An affirmation of Jehovah .
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A voice of a cry [is] from Babylon , And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean .
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For Jehovah is spoiling Babylon , And hath destroyed out of it a great voice , And sounded have its billows as many waters , Given forth a noise hath their voice .
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For come in against it -- against Babylon -- hath a spoiler, And captured have been its mighty ones , Broken have been their bows , For the God of recompences -- Jehovah -- doth certainly repay .
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And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors , And its prefects , and its mighty ones , And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not -- an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name .
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Thus said Jehovah of Hosts , the wall of Babylon -- The broad one -- is utterly made bare, And her high gates with fire are burnt, And peoples labour in vain , And nations in fire , and have been weary !
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The word that Jeremiah the prophet hath commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, in his going with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon , in the fourth year of his reign -- and Seraiah [is] a quiet prince ;
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and Jeremiah writeth all the evil that cometh unto Babylon on one book -- all these words that are written concerning Babylon .
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And Jeremiah saith unto Seraiah, `When thou dost enter Babylon , then thou hast seen , and hast read all these words ,
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and hast said : Jehovah , Thou, Thou hast spoken concerning this place , to cut it off, that there is none dwelling in it, from man even unto cattle, for it is a desolation age-during.
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And it hath come to pass, when thou dost finish reading this book , thou dost bind to it a stone , and hast cast it into the midst of Phrat ,
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and said , Thus sink doth Babylon , and it doth not arise , because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary .' Hitherto [are] words of Jeremiah .