Jeremiah 51:35-61

³⁵The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.

³⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, and will dry up her spring.

³⁷And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

³⁸They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.

³⁹In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.

⁴¹How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

⁴²The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

⁴³Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.

⁴⁴And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the rations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.

⁴⁵Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.

⁴⁶And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler.

⁴⁷Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁴⁸And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the Lord.

⁴⁹And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.

⁵⁰You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

⁵¹We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord.

⁵²Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:

⁵³If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.

⁵⁴The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

⁵⁵Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:

⁵⁶Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.

⁵⁷And I will make her princes drunk. and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the whose name is Lord of hosts.

⁵⁸Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and shall perish.

⁵⁹The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the prophecy.

⁶⁰And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.

⁶¹And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,