Jeremiah 51 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

Jer 51:1Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will raise up against Bavel, and against those who dwell in Lev-Kamai, a destroying wind.

Jer 51:2

Jer 51:2I will send to Bavel strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

Jer 51:3

Jer 51:3Against him who bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her host.

Jer 51:4

Jer 51:4They shall fall down slain in the land of the Kasdim, and thrust through in her streets.

Jer 51:5

Jer 51:5For Yisra'el is not forsaken, nor Yehudah, of his God, of the LORD of Hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Yisra'el.

Jer 51:6

Jer 51:6Flee out of the midst of Bavel, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

Jer 51:7

Jer 51:7Bavel has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, who made all the eretz drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

Jer 51:8

Jer 51:8Bavel is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Jer 51:9

Jer 51:9We would have healed Bavel, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

Jer 51:10

Jer 51:10The LORD has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Tziyon the work of the LORD our God.

Jer 51:11

Jer 51:11Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: the LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Madai; because his purpose is against Bavel, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Jer 51:12

Jer 51:12Set up a standard against the walls of Bavel, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Bavel.

Jer 51:13

Jer 51:13You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the measure of your covetousness.

Jer 51:14

Jer 51:14The LORD of Hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

Jer 51:15

Jer 51:15He has made the eretz by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

Jer 51:16

Jer 51:16when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the eretz; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

Jer 51:17

Jer 51:17Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jer 51:18

Jer 51:18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jer 51:19

Jer 51:19The portion of Ya`akov is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Yisra'el is the tribe of his inheritance: the LORD of Hosts is his name.

Jer 51:20

Jer 51:20You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;

Jer 51:21

Jer 51:21and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

Jer 51:22

Jer 51:22and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

Jer 51:23

Jer 51:23and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

Jer 51:24

Jer 51:24I will render to Bavel and to all the inhabitants of Kasdim all their evil that they have done in Tziyon in your sight, says the LORD.

Jer 51:25

Jer 51:25Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroy all the eretz; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

Jer 51:26

Jer 51:26They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says the LORD.

Jer 51:27

Jer 51:27Set up a standard in the land, blow the shofar among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

Jer 51:28

Jer 51:28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Madai, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the land of their dominion.

Jer 51:29

Jer 51:29The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of the LORD against Bavel do stand, to make the land of Bavel a desolation, without inhabitant.

Jer 51:30

Jer 51:30The mighty men of Bavel have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Jer 51:31

Jer 51:31One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Bavel that his city is taken on every quarter:

Jer 51:32

Jer 51:32and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

Jer 51:33

Jer 51:33For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Yisra'el: The daughter of Bavel is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

Jer 51:34

Jer 51:34Nevukhadretztzar the king of Bavel has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

Jer 51:35

Jer 51:35The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Bavel, shall the inhabitant of Tziyon say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Kasdim, shall Yerushalayim say.

Jer 51:36

Jer 51:36Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

Jer 51:37

Jer 51:37Bavel shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Jer 51:38

Jer 51:38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

Jer 51:39

Jer 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

Jer 51:40

Jer 51:40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Jer 51:41

Jer 51:41How is Sheshakh taken! and the praise of the whole eretz seized! how is Bavel become a desolation among the nations!

Jer 51:42

Jer 51:42The sea is come up on Bavel; she is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.

Jer 51:43

Jer 51:43Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

Jer 51:44

Jer 51:44I will execute judgment on Bel in Bavel, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Bavel shall fall.

Jer 51:45

Jer 51:45My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jer 51:46

Jer 51:46Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Jer 51:47

Jer 51:47Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Bavel; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

Jer 51:48

Jer 51:48Then the heavens and the eretz, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Bavel; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD.

Jer 51:49

Jer 51:49As Bavel has caused the slain of Yisra'el to fall, so at Bavel shall fall the slain of all the land.

Jer 51:50

Jer 51:50You who have escaped the sword, go you, don't stand still; remember the LORD from afar, and let Yerushalayim come into your mind.

Jer 51:51

Jer 51:51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

Jer 51:52

Jer 51:52Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Jer 51:53

Jer 51:53Though Bavel should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says the LORD.

Jer 51:54

Jer 51:54The sound of a cry from Bavel, and of great destruction from the land of the Kasdim!

Jer 51:55

Jer 51:55For the LORD lays Bavel waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

Jer 51:56

Jer 51:56for the destroyer is come on her, even on Bavel, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the LORD is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

Jer 51:57

Jer 51:57I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

Jer 51:58

Jer 51:58Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Bavel shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

Jer 51:59

Jer 51:59The word which Yirmeyahu the prophet commanded Serayah the son of Neriyah, the son of Mechaseyah, when he went with Tzidkiyahu the king of Yehudah to Bavel in the fourth year of his reign. Now Serayah was chief chamberlain.

Jer 51:60

Jer 51:60Yirmeyahu wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Bavel, even all these words that are written concerning Bavel.

Jer 51:61

Jer 51:61Yirmeyahu said to Serayah, When you come to Bavel, then see that you read all these words,

Jer 51:62

Jer 51:62and say, LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever.

Jer 51:63

Jer 51:63It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Perat:

Jer 51:64

Jer 51:64and you shall say, Thus shall Bavel sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Yirmeyahu.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

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