Jeremiah 51:35-61

³⁵Wickedness against me, and my flesh on Babylon, saith the dwelling or the dwellers of Zion; and my blood on the dwellers of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.

³⁶Therefore the Lord saith these things, Lo! I shall deem thy cause, and I shall avenge thy vengeance; and I shall make the sea thereof forsaken, and I shall make dry the vein thereof.

³⁷And Babylon shall be into burials, it shall be the dwelling of dragons, wondering, and hissing, for that no dweller is.

³⁸They shall roar together as lions, and they shall shake their locks, as the whelps of lions.

³⁹In the heat of them I shall set or put the drinks of them; and I shall make them drunken, that they be brought asleep, and that they sleep everlasting sleep, and rise not, saith the Lord.

⁴⁰I shall lead forth them, as lambs to slain sacrifice, and as wethers with kids.

⁴¹How is Sheshach taken, and the noble city of all earth is taken? How is Babylon made into wonder among heathen men?

⁴²And the sea ascended or went up on Babylon, it was covered with the multitude of his waves.

⁴³The cities thereof be made into wondering, the land is made unhabitable and forsaken; the land wherein no man dwelleth, and the son of man shall not pass by it.

⁴⁴And I shall visit on Bel into Babylon, and I shall cast out of his mouth that, that he had swallowed, and folks shall no more flow to it; for also the wall of Babylon shall fall down.

⁴⁵My people, go ye out from the midst thereof, that each man save his soul from the wrath of the strong vengeance of the Lord;

⁴⁶and lest peradventure your heart wax nesh, and lest ye dread the hearing, that shall be heard in the land; and hearing shall come in a year, and after this year shall come hearing, and wickedness in the land, and a lord on a lord.

⁴⁷Therefore lo! days come, saith the Lord, and I shall visit on the graven images of Babylon; and all the land thereof shall be shamed, and all slain men thereof shall fall down in the midst thereof.

⁴⁸And heaven’s, and earth’s, and all things that be in those or them, shall praise on Babylon; for raveners shall come from the north to it, saith the Lord.

⁴⁹And as Babylon did, that slain men fell down in Israel, so of Babylon slain men shall fall down and in all the land.

⁵⁰Come ye, that fled the sword, do not ye stand; have ye mind afar on the Lord, and Jerusalem ascend or go up on your heart.

⁵¹We be shamed, for we heard shame; shame covered our faces, for aliens came on the hallowing of the house of the Lord.

⁵²Therefore lo! days come, saith the Lord, and I shall visit on the graven images of Babylon, and in all the land thereof a wounded man shall bellow.

⁵³If Babylon ascendeth or go up into heaven, and maketh steadfast his strength on high, destroyers thereof shall come of me, saith the Lord.

⁵⁴The voice of a crier of Babylon, and great sorrow of the land of Chaldees,

⁵⁵for the Lord destroyed Babylon, and lost or destroyed of it a great voice; and the waves of them shall sound as many waters. The voice of them gave sound,

⁵⁶for a ravener came up on it, that is, up on Babylon; and the strong men thereof be taken, and the bow of them withered, for the strong avenger, the Lord, yielding again shall yield.

⁵⁷And I shall make drunken the princes thereof, and the wise men thereof, the dukes thereof, and the magistrates thereof, and the strong men thereof; and they shall sleep everlasting sleep, and they shall not be awakened, saith the king, the Lord of hosts is name of him.

⁵⁸The Lord God of hosts saith these things, That broadest wall of Babylon shall be under mined with under-mining, and the high gates thereof shall be burnt with fire; and the travails of peoples shall be to nought, and the travails of heathen men shall be into fire, and shall perish.

⁵⁹The word which Jeremy, the prophet, commanded to Seraiah, son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, the king, into Babylon, in the fourth year of his realm; forsooth Seraiah was prince of prophecy.

⁶⁰And Jeremy wrote all the evil, that was to coming or to come up on Babylon, in a book, all these words that were written against Babylon.

⁶¹And Jeremy said to Seraiah, When thou comest into Babylon, and seest, and readest all these words,