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51.35
JEREMIAH
- And: 'My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea',
- Shall Jerusalem say.
- 36Therefore thus saith the Lord:
- Behold, I will plead thy cause,
- And take vengeance for thee;
- And I will dry up her sea,
- And make her fountain dry.
- 37And Babylon shall become heaps,
- A dwelling-place for jackals,
- An astonishment, and a hissing,
- Without inhabitant.
- 38They shall roar together like young lions;
- They shall growl as lions' whelps.
- 39With their poison I will prepare their feast,
- And I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed,
- And sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,
- Saith the Lord.
- 40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
- Like rams with he-goats.
- 41How is Sheshach taken!
- And the praise of the whole earth seized!
- How is Babylon become an astonishment
- Among the nations!
- 42The sea is come up upon Babylon;
- She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
- 43Her cities are become a desolation,
- A dry land, and a desert,
- A land wherein no man dwelleth,
- Neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
- 44And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
- And I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up,
- And the nations shall not flow any more unto him;
- Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
- 45My people, go ye out of the midst of her,
- And save yourselves every man
- From the fierce anger of the Lord.
- 46And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye,
- For the rumour that shall be heard in the land;
- For a rumour shall come one year,
- And after that in another year a rumour,
- And violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
- 47Therefore behold, the days come,
- That I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon,
- And her whole land shall be ashamed;
- And all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
- 48Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein,
- Shall sing for joy over Babylon;
- For the spoilers shall come unto her
- From the north, saith the Lord.
- 49As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall,
- So at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
- 50Ye that have escaped the sword,
- Go ye, stand not still;
- Remember the Lord from afar,
- And let Jerusalem come into your mind.
- 51'We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach,
- Confusion hath covered our faces;
- For strangers are come
- Into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house.'
- 52Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
- That I will do judgment upon her graven images;
- And through all her land the wounded shall groan.
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