Jeremiah 51 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

Jer 51:1Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up against Babylon, And the inhabitants of Leb -- My withstanders, A destroying wind,

Jer 51:2

Jer 51:2And 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.

Jer 51:3

Jer 51:3Let 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.

Jer 51:4

Jer 51:4And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.

Jer 51:5

Jer 51:5For, 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.

Jer 51:6

Jer 51:6Flee 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.

Jer 51:7

Jer 51:7A 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.

Jer 51:8

Jer 51:8Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.

Jer 51:9

Jer 51:9We 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.

Jer 51:10

Jer 51:10Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousnesses, Come, and we recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

Jer 51:11

Jer 51:11Cleanse 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.

Jer 51:12

Jer 51:12Unto 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.

Jer 51:13

Jer 51:13O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain.

Jer 51:14

Jer 51:14Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee with men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against thee -- shouting.

Jer 51:15

Jer 51:15The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

Jer 51:16

Jer 51:16At 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.

Jer 51:17

Jer 51:17Brutish 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.

Jer 51:18

Jer 51:18Vanity are they -- work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.

Jer 51:19

Jer 51:19Not 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.

Jer 51:20

Jer 51:20An axe art thou to me -- weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms,

Jer 51:21

Jer 51:21And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer,

Jer 51:22

Jer 51:22And 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,

Jer 51:23

Jer 51:23And 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.

Jer 51:24

Jer 51:24And 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.

Jer 51:25

Jer 51:25Lo, 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.

Jer 51:26

Jer 51:26And 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.

Jer 51:27

Jer 51:27Lift 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.

Jer 51:28

Jer 51:28Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.

Jer 51:29

Jer 51:29And 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.

Jer 51:30

Jer 51:30Ceased 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.

Jer 51:31

Jer 51:31Runner 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.

Jer 51:32

Jer 51:32And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.

Jer 51:33

Jer 51:33For 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.

Jer 51:34

Jer 51:34Devoured 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.

Jer 51:35

Jer 51:35My 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.

Jer 51:36

Jer 51:36Therefore, 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.

Jer 51:37

Jer 51:37And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Jer 51:38

Jer 51:38Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.

Jer 51:39

Jer 51:39In 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.

Jer 51:40

Jer 51:40I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.

Jer 51:41

Jer 51:41How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

Jer 51:42

Jer 51:42Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

Jer 51:43

Jer 51:43Its 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.

Jer 51:44

Jer 51:44And 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.

Jer 51:45

Jer 51:45Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver ye, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah,

Jer 51:46

Jer 51:46And 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;

Jer 51:47

Jer 51:47Therefore, 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.

Jer 51:48

Jer 51:48And 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.

Jer 51:49

Jer 51:49Even Babylon is to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all the earth.

Jer 51:50

Jer 51:50Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.

Jer 51:51

Jer 51:51We 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.

Jer 51:52

Jer 51:52Therefore, 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.

Jer 51:53

Jer 51:53Because 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.

Jer 51:54

Jer 51:54A voice of a cry is from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.

Jer 51:55

Jer 51:55For 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.

Jer 51:56

Jer 51:56For 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.

Jer 51:57

Jer 51:57And 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.

Jer 51:58

Jer 51:58Thus 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!

Jer 51:59

Jer 51:59The 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;

Jer 51:60

Jer 51:60and Jeremiah writeth all the evil that cometh unto Babylon on one book -- all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

Jer 51:61

Jer 51:61And Jeremiah saith unto Seraiah, 'When thou dost enter Babylon, then thou hast seen, and hast read all these words,

Jer 51:62

Jer 51:62and 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.

Jer 51:63

Jer 51:63And 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,

Jer 51:64

Jer 51:64and 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.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Jeremiah 51 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Babylon Judged for Sins against Israel

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