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Thus saith[H559] the LORD[H3068]; Behold, I will raise up[H5782] against Babylon[H894], and against them that dwell[H3427] in the midst[H3820] of them that rise up[H6965] against me, a destroying[H7843]wind[H7307];
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And will send[H7971] unto Babylon[H894]fanners[H2114], that shall fan[H2219] her, and shall empty[H1238] her land[H776]: for in the day[H3117] of trouble[H7451] they shall be against her round about[H5439].
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Against him that bendeth[H1869] let the archer[H1869]bend[H1869] his bow[H7198], and against him that lifteth himself up[H5927] in his brigandine[H5630]: and spare[H2550] ye not her young men[H970]; destroy ye utterly[H2763] all her host[H6635].
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Thus the slain[H2491] shall fall[H5307] in the land[H776] of the Chaldeans[H3778], and they that are thrust through[H1856] in her streets[H2351].
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For Israel[H3478] hath not been forsaken[H488], nor Judah[H3063] of his God[H430], of the LORD[H3068] of hosts[H6635]; though their land[H776] was filled[H4390] with sin[H817] against the Holy One[H6918] of Israel[H3478].
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Flee out[H5127] of the midst[H8432] of Babylon[H894], and deliver[H4422] every man[H376] his soul[H5315]: be not cut off[H1826] in her iniquity[H5771]; for this is the time[H6256] of the LORD'S vengeance[H5360]; he will render[H7999] unto her a recompence[H1576].
7Babylon[H894] hath been a golden[H2091]cup[H3563] in the LORD'S hand[H3027], that made all the earth[H776]drunken[H7937]: the nations[H1471] have drunken[H8354] of her wine[H3196]; therefore the nations[H1471] are mad[H1984].
8Babylon[H894] is suddenly[H6597]fallen[H5307] and destroyed[H7665]: howl[H3213] for her; take[H3947]balm[H6875] for her pain[H4341], if so be she may be healed[H7495].
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We would have healed[H7495]Babylon[H894], but she is not healed[H7495]: forsake[H5800] her, and let us go[H3212] every one[H376] into his own country[H776]: for her judgment[H4941]reacheth[H5060] unto heaven[H8064], and is lifted up[H5375] even to the skies[H7834].
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The LORD[H3068] hath brought forth[H3318] our righteousness[H6666]: come[H935], and let us declare[H5608] in Zion[H6726] the work[H4639] of the LORD[H3068] our God[H430].
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Make bright[H1305] the arrows[H2671]; gather[H4390] the shields[H7982]: the LORD[H3068] hath raised up[H5782] the spirit[H7307] of the kings[H4428] of the Medes[H4074]: for his device[H4209] is against Babylon[H894], to destroy[H7843] it; because it is the vengeance[H5360] of the LORD[H3068], the vengeance[H5360] of his temple[H1964].
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Set up[H5375] the standard[H5251] upon the walls[H2346] of Babylon[H894], make the watch[H4929]strong[H2388], set up[H6965] the watchmen[H8104], prepare[H3559] the ambushes[H693]: for the LORD[H3068] hath both devised[H2161] and done[H6213] that which he spake[H1696] against the inhabitants[H3427] of Babylon[H894].
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O thou that dwellest[H7931] upon many[H7227]waters[H4325], abundant[H7227] in treasures[H214], thine end[H7093] is come[H935], and the measure[H520] of thy covetousness[H1215].
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The LORD[H3068] of hosts[H6635] hath sworn[H7650] by himself[H5315], saying, Surely I will fill[H4390] thee with men[H120], as with caterpillers[H3218]; and they shall lift up[H6030] a shout[H1959] against thee.
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He hath made[H6213] the earth[H776] by his power[H3581], he hath established[H3559] the world[H8398] by his wisdom[H2451], and hath stretched out[H5186] the heaven[H8064] by his understanding[H8394].
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When he uttereth[H5414] his voice[H6963], there is a multitude[H1995] of waters[H4325] in the heavens[H8064]; and he causeth the vapours[H5387] to ascend[H5927] from the ends[H7097] of the earth[H776]: he maketh[H6213]lightnings[H1300] with rain[H4306], and bringeth forth[H3318] the wind[H7307] out of his treasures[H214].
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Every man[H120] is brutish[H1197] by his knowledge[H1847]; every founder[H6884] is confounded[H3001] by the graven image[H6459]: for his molten image[H5262] is falsehood[H8267], and there is no breath[H7307] in them.
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They are vanity[H1892], the work[H4639] of errors[H8595]: in the time[H6256] of their visitation[H6486] they shall perish[H6].
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The portion[H2506] of Jacob[H3290] is not like them; for he is the former[H3335] of all things: and Israel is the rod[H7626] of his inheritance[H5159]: the LORD[H3068] of hosts[H6635] is his name[H8034].
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Thou art my battle axe[H4661] and weapons[H3627] of war[H4421]: for with thee will I break in pieces[H5310] the nations[H1471], and with thee will I destroy[H7843]kingdoms[H4467];
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And with thee will I break in pieces[H5310] the horse[H5483] and his rider[H7392]; and with thee will I break in pieces[H5310] the chariot[H7393] and his rider[H7392];
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With thee also will I break in pieces[H5310]man[H376] and woman[H802]; and with thee will I break in pieces[H5310]old[H2205] and young[H5288]; and with thee will I break in pieces[H5310] the young[H5288]man[H970] and the maid[H1330];
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I will also break in pieces[H5310] with thee the shepherd[H7462] and his flock[H5739]; and with thee will I break in pieces[H5310] the husbandman[H406] and his yoke of oxen[H6776]; and with thee will I break in pieces[H5310]captains[H6346] and rulers[H5461].
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And I will render[H7999] unto Babylon[H894] and to all the inhabitants[H3427] of Chaldea[H3778] all their evil[H7451] that they have done[H6213] in Zion[H6726] in your sight[H5869], saith[H5002] the LORD[H3068].
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Behold, I am against thee, O destroying[H4889]mountain[H2022], saith[H5002] the LORD[H3068], which destroyest[H7843] all the earth[H776]: and I will stretch out[H5186] mine hand[H3027] upon thee, and roll thee down[H1556] from the rocks[H5553], and will make[H5414] thee a burnt[H8316]mountain[H2022].
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And they shall not take[H3947] of thee a stone[H68] for a corner[H6438], nor a stone[H68] for foundations[H4146]; but thou shalt be desolate[H8077] for ever[H5769], saith[H5002] the LORD[H3068].
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Set ye up[H5375] a standard[H5251] in the land[H776], blow[H8628] the trumpet[H7782] among the nations[H1471], prepare[H6942] the nations[H1471] against her, call together[H8085] against her the kingdoms[H4467] of Ararat[H780], Minni[H4508], and Ashchenaz[H813]; appoint[H6485] a captain[H2951] against her; cause the horses[H5483] to come up[H5927] as the rough[H5569]caterpillers[H3218].
28Prepare[H6942] against her the nations[H1471] with the kings[H4428] of the Medes[H4074], the captains[H6346] thereof, and all the rulers[H5461] thereof, and all the land[H776] of his dominion[H4475].
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And the land[H776] shall tremble[H7493] and sorrow[H2342]: for every purpose[H4284] of the LORD[H3068] shall be performed[H6965] against Babylon[H894], to make[H7760] the land[H776] of Babylon[H894] a desolation[H8047] without an inhabitant[H3427].
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The mighty men[H1368] of Babylon[H894] have forborn[H2308] to fight[H3898], they have remained[H3427] in their holds[H4679]: their might[H1369] hath failed[H5405]; they became as women[H802]: they have burned[H3341] her dwellingplaces[H4908]; her bars[H1280] are broken[H7665].
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One post[H7323] shall run[H7323] to meet[H7125]another[H7323], and one messenger[H5046] to meet[H7125]another[H5046], to shew[H5046] the king[H4428] of Babylon[H894] that his city[H5892] is taken[H3920] at one end[H7097],
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And that the passages[H4569] are stopped[H8610], and the reeds[H98] they have burned[H8313] with fire[H784], and the men[H582] of war[H4421] are affrighted[H926].
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For thus saith[H559] the LORD[H3068] of hosts[H6635], the God[H430] of Israel[H3478]; The daughter[H1323] of Babylon[H894] is like a threshingfloor[H1637], it is time[H6256] to thresh[H1869] her: yet a little while[H4592], and the time[H6256] of her harvest[H7105] shall come[H935].
34Nebuchadrezzar[H5019] the king[H4428] of Babylon[H894] hath devoured[H398] me, he hath crushed[H2000] me, he hath made[H3322] me an empty[H7385]vessel[H3627], he hath swallowed me up[H1104] like a dragon[H8577], he hath filled[H4390] his belly[H3770] with my delicates[H5730], he hath cast me out[H1740].
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The violence[H2555] done to me and to my flesh[H7607] be upon Babylon[H894], shall the inhabitant[H3427] of Zion[H6726]say[H559]; and my blood[H1818] upon the inhabitants[H3427] of Chaldea[H3778], shall Jerusalem[H3389]say[H559].
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Therefore thus saith[H559] the LORD[H3068]; Behold, I will plead[H7378] thy cause[H7379], and take vengeance[H5358] for thee[H5360]; and I will dry[H3001]up[H2717] her sea[H3220], and make her springs[H4726]dry[H3001].
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And Babylon[H894] shall become heaps[H1530], a dwellingplace[H4583] for dragons[H8577], an astonishment[H8047], and an hissing[H8322], without an inhabitant[H3427].
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They shall roar[H7580]together[H3162] like lions[H3715]: they shall yell[H5286] as lions[H738]' whelps[H1484].
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In their heat[H2527] I will make[H7896] their feasts[H4960], and I will make[H7896] them drunken[H7937], that they may rejoice[H5937], and sleep[H3462] a perpetual[H5769]sleep[H8142], and not wake[H6974], saith[H5002] the LORD[H3068].
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I will bring them down[H3381] like lambs[H3733] to the slaughter[H2873], like rams[H352] with he goats[H6260].
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How is Sheshach[H8347]taken[H3920]! and how is the praise[H8416] of the whole earth[H776]surprised[H8610]! how is Babylon[H894] become an astonishment[H8047] among the nations[H1471]!
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The sea[H3220] is come up[H5927] upon Babylon[H894]: she is covered[H3680] with the multitude[H1995] of the waves[H1530] thereof.
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Her cities[H5892] are a desolation[H8047], a dry[H6723]land[H776], and a wilderness[H6160], a land[H776] wherein no man[H376]dwelleth[H3427], neither doth any son[H1121] of man[H120]pass[H5674]thereby[H2004].
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And I will punish[H6485]Bel[H1078] in Babylon[H894], and I will bring forth[H3318] out of his mouth[H6310] that which he hath swallowed up[H1105]: and the nations[H1471] shall not flow together[H5102] any more unto him: yea, the wall[H2346] of Babylon[H894] shall fall[H5307].
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My people[H5971], go ye out[H3318] of the midst[H8432] of her, and deliver[H4422] ye every man[H376] his soul[H5315] from the fierce[H2740]anger[H639] of the LORD[H3068].
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And lest your heart[H3824]faint[H7401], and ye fear[H3372] for the rumour[H8052] that shall be heard[H8085] in the land[H776]; a rumour[H8052] shall both come[H935] one year[H8141], and after[H310] that in another year[H8141] shall come[H935] a rumour[H8052], and violence[H2555] in the land[H776], ruler[H4910] against ruler[H4910].
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Therefore, behold, the days[H3117]come[H935], that I will do judgment[H6485] upon the graven images[H6456] of Babylon[H894]: and her whole land[H776] shall be confounded[H954], and all her slain[H2491] shall fall[H5307] in the midst[H8432] of her.
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Then the heaven[H8064] and the earth[H776], and all that is therein, shall sing[H7442] for Babylon[H894]: for the spoilers[H7703] shall come[H935] unto her from the north[H6828], saith[H5002] the LORD[H3068].
49As[H1571]Babylon[H894] hath caused the slain[H2491] of Israel[H3478] to fall[H5307], so at Babylon[H894] shall fall[H5307] the slain[H2491] of all the earth[H776].
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Ye that have escaped[H6405] the sword[H2719], go away[H1980], stand not still[H5975]: remember[H2142] the LORD[H3068] afar off[H7350], and let Jerusalem[H3389]come[H5927] into your mind[H3824].
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We are confounded[H954], because we have heard[H8085]reproach[H2781]: shame[H3639] hath covered[H3680] our faces[H6440]: for strangers[H2114] are come[H935] into the sanctuaries[H4720] of the LORD'S house[H1004].
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Wherefore, behold, the days[H3117]come[H935], saith[H5002] the LORD[H3068], that I will do judgment[H6485] upon her graven images[H6456]: and through all her land[H776] the wounded[H2491] shall groan[H602].
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Though Babylon[H894] should mount up[H5927] to heaven[H8064], and though she should fortify[H1219] the height[H4791] of her strength[H5797], yet[H227] from me shall spoilers[H7703]come[H935] unto her, saith[H5002] the LORD[H3068].
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A sound[H6963] of a cry[H2201] cometh from Babylon[H894], and great[H1419]destruction[H7667] from the land[H776] of the Chaldeans[H3778]:
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Because the LORD[H3068] hath spoiled[H7703]Babylon[H894], and destroyed[H6] out of her the great[H1419]voice[H6963]; when her waves[H1530] do roar[H1993] like great[H7227]waters[H4325], a noise[H7588] of their voice[H6963] is uttered[H5414]:
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Because the spoiler[H7703] is come[H935] upon her, even upon Babylon[H894], and her mighty men[H1368] are taken[H3920], every one of their bows[H7198] is broken[H2865]: for the LORD[H3068]God[H410] of recompences[H1578] shall surely[H7999]requite[H7999].
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And I will make drunk[H7937] her princes[H8269], and her wise[H2450]men[H1368], her captains[H6346], and her rulers[H5461], and her mighty men[H1368]: and they shall sleep[H3462] a perpetual[H5769]sleep[H8142], and not wake[H6974], saith[H5002] the King[H4428], whose name[H8034] is the LORD[H3068] of hosts[H6635].
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Thus saith[H559] the LORD[H3068] of hosts[H6635]; The broad[H7342]walls[H2346] of Babylon[H894] shall be utterly[H6209]broken[H6209], and her high[H1364]gates[H8179] shall be burned[H3341] with fire[H784]; and the people[H5971] shall labour[H3021]in[H1767]vain[H7385], and the folk[H3816]in[H1767] the fire[H784], and they shall be weary[H3286].
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The word[H1697] which Jeremiah[H3414] the prophet[H5030]commanded[H6680]Seraiah[H8304] the son[H1121] of Neriah[H5374], the son[H1121] of Maaseiah[H4271], when he went[H3212] with Zedekiah[H6667] the king[H4428] of Judah[H3063] into Babylon[H894] in the fourth[H7243]year[H8141] of his reign[H4427]. And this Seraiah[H8304] was a quiet[H4496]prince[H8269].
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So Jeremiah[H3414]wrote[H3789] in a[H259]book[H5612] all the evil[H7451] that should come[H935] upon Babylon[H894], even all these words[H1697] that are written[H3789] against Babylon[H894].
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And Jeremiah[H3414]said[H559] to Seraiah[H8304], When thou comest[H935] to Babylon[H894], and shalt see[H7200], and shalt read[H7121] all these words[H1697];
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Then shalt thou say[H559], O LORD[H3068], thou hast spoken[H1696] against this place[H4725], to cut it off[H3772], that none shall remain[H3427] in it, neither man[H120] nor beast[H929], but that it shall be desolate[H8077] for ever[H5769].
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And it shall be, when thou hast made an end[H3615] of reading[H7121] this book[H5612], that thou shalt bind[H7194] a stone[H68] to it, and cast[H7993] it into the midst[H8432] of Euphrates[H6578]:
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And thou shalt say[H559], Thus shall Babylon[H894]sink[H8257], and shall not rise[H6965]from[H6440] the evil[H7451] that I will bring[H935] upon her: and they shall be weary[H3286]. Thus far are the words[H1697] of Jeremiah[H3414].