captives held them fast; fused to let them go. they re hold of him, and pangs as of a wo man in travail. E 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Ea-away from her: and who is a cho bylon. sen man, that I may appoint over r35¶ A sword is upon the Chal-her? for who is like me? and who deans, saith the LORD, and upon will appoint me the time? and who the inhabitants of Babylon, and is that shepherd that will stand be upon her princes, and upon her wise fore me? men. 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and the shall be robbed. r38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their ha bitation desolate with them. 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. CHAP. LI. hold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon, fanners that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. g 40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 41 Behold, a people shall comer 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the from the north, and a great nation, land of the Chaldeans, and they that and many kings shall be raised up are thrust through in her streets. from the coasts of the earth. t 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 42 They shall hold the bow and the lance they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took 4 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S veugeance: he will render unto her a recompense. 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad, 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. si di 18 They are vanity, the work of errors in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19 The Portion of Jacobis Dol 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm 1er her pain, if so be she may be healed. 9 We would have healed Baby-like them; for he is the former of lon, but she is not bealed: forsake all things: and Israel is the rod of her, and let us go every one into his his inheritance: the LORD of hosts own country for her judgment is his name, reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. d 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple. g 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. E 20 Thou art my battle-axe, and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22 With thee also will I break in pieces ma and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will. I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will. I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. to 13 O thou that dwellest upon mag 24 And I will render nato Babyny waters, abundant in treasures, Ton and to all the inhabitants of thine end is come, and the measure Chaldea all their evil that they have of thy covetousness. done in Zion in your sight, saith the r 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn LORD. by himself, saying, Surely I will fillr 25 Behold, I am against thee, O thee with men, as with caterpillars; destroying mountain,saith the LORD, and they shall lift up a shout against thee. E 15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt moun tain. 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for 16 When he uttereth his voice, foundations; but thou shalt be deso there is a multitude of waters in the late for ever, saith the LORD. heavens; and he causeth the vag 27 Set ye up a standard in the pours to ascend from the ends of the land, blow the trumpet among the earth: he maketh lightnings with nations, prepare the nations against rain, and bringeth forth the wind her, call together against her the out of his treasures. kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ash CHAPTER LI. chenaz; appoint a captain against 38 They shall roar together like her; cause the horses to come up lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. as the rough caterpillars. 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his domi nion. to 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow; for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them dranken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. 640 will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. 41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become 30 The mighty men of Babylon an astonishment among the nations! have foreborne to fight, they have r 42 The sea is come up upon Baremained in their holds: their might bylon: she is covered with the mul hath failed; they became as wo-titude of the waves thereof. men they have burned her dwelling-places; her bars are broken. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land 31 One post shall run to meet wherein no man dwelleth, neither another, and one messenger to meet doth any son of man pass thereby. another, to shew the king of Baby-g 44 And I will punish Bel in Ba lon that his city is taken at one end, bylon, and I will bring forth out of 32 And that the passages are stop-his mouth that which he hath swalped, and the reeds they have burn-lowed up: and the nations shall not ed with fire, and the men of war flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. are affrighted. d 45 Mv people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every his soul from the fierce anger i 33 For thus saith the LORD of E 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of me out. g 35 The violence done to me and of the LORD. 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. w 47 Therefore behold, the day's come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD. 49 As Babylon hath caused the 37 And Babylon shall become slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, shall fall the slain of all the earth. an astonishment, and a hissing, with-d 50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still; out an inhabitant. 865 remember the LORD afar off, and Babylon, even all these words that let Jerusalem come into your mind. are written against Babylon. 51 We are confounded, because 61 And Jeremiah said to Serawe have heard reproach: shameiab, When thou comest to Babylon, hath covered our faces; for stran- and shalt see, and shalt read all gers are come into the sanctuaries these words; of the LORD's house. w 52 Wherefore behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images and through all her fand the wounded shall groan. 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. 54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: 55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice: when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: 156 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite. 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is The LORD of hosts. g58 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 vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. f59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince. 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon r 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever... g 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates LE 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, 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. CHAP. LII. EDEKIAH was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and be reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. c 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, ull he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. a 4 T And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Ba bylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about, If 5 So the city was besieged unio the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. a 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. f7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the the bases, and the brazen sea that two walls, which was by the king's was in the house of the LORD, the garden :'(now the Chaldeans were Chaldeans brake, and carried all by the city round about :) and they the brass of them to Babylon. went by the way of the plain. 18 The caldrons also, and the 8 But the army of the Chalde- shovels, and the snuffers, and the ans pursued after the king, and over-bowls, and the spoons, and all the took Zedekiah in the plains of Jeri- vessels of brass wherewith they mis cho and all his army was scattered nistered, took they away.s from him. f 19 And the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the cal g 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Badrons, and the candlesticks, and the bylon to Riblah, in the land of Ha- spoons, and the cups; that which math where he gave judgment was of gold in gold, and that which upon him. was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away. 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah, in Riblah. a 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cu12 Now in the fifth month, in bits; and a fillet of twelve cubits The tenth day of the month, which did compass it; and the thickness was the nineteenth year of Nebu-thereof was four fingers: it was holchadrezzar king of Babylon, came low. Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, a 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the bouses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with net-work and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these. 23 And there were ninety and six a 14 And all the army of the Chal-pomegranates on a side; and all the deans, that were with the captain of pomegranates upon the net-work the guard, brake down all the walls were a hundred round about. of Jerusalem round about. f 24 And the captain of the guard 1 15 Then Nebuzar-adan the cap-took Seraiah the chief priest, and tain of the guard carried away cap- Zephaniah the second priest, and tive certain of the poor of the peo-the three keepers of the door: ple, and the residue of the people 25 He took also out of the city a that remained in the city, and those eunuch, which had the charge of that fell away, that fell to the king the men of war; and seven men of of Babylon, and the rest of the mul-them that were near the king's pertitude. 16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vine-dressers and for husbandmen. 17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and son, which were found in the city; |