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And the nations shall not stream to Though her waves roar like great
him anymore. waters,
Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. And the noise of their voice is uttered,
56 Because the plunderer comes against
45 “My people, go out of the midst of her!
her, against Babylon,
And let everyone deliver himself from And her mighty men are taken.
the fierce anger of the LORD.
46 And lest your heart faint, Every one of their bows is broken;
And you fear for the rumor that will be For the LORD is the God of recompense,
He will surely repay.
heard in the land
(A rumor will come one year, 57 “And I will make drunk
And after that, in another year Her princes and wise men,
A rumor will come, Her governors, her deputies, and her
And violence in the land, mighty men.
Ruler against ruler), And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
47 Therefore behold, the days are coming And not awake,” says the King,
That I will bring judgment on the Whose name is the LORD of hosts.
carved images of Babylon; 58
Her whole land shall be ashamed, Thus says the LORD of hosts:
And all her slain shall fall in her midst. “The broad walls of Babylon shall be
48 Then the heavens and the earth and all utterly broken,
that is in them And her high gates shall be burned
Shall sing joyously over Babylon; with fire;
For the plunderers shall come to her The people will labor in vain,
from the north,” says the LORD. And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”
49 As Babylon has caused the slain
of Israel to fall, 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet com-
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth manded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
shall fall. Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the
50 You who have escaped the sword, king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of
Get away! Do not stand still! his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster.
Remember the LORD afar off, 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that
And let Jerusalem come to your mind. would come upon Babylon, all these words that
are written against Babylon. And Jeremiah
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We are ashamed because we have said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon
heard reproach. 62
Shame has covered our faces, and see it, and read all these words, then you
For strangers have come into shall say, ‘O LORD, You have spoken against
the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house. this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain
in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be des-
“Therefore behold, the days are olate forever.’ Now it shall be, when you have
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coming,” says the LORD, finished reading this book, that you shall tie a
“That I will bring judgment on her stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates.
carved images, 64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink
And throughout all her land the and not rise from the catastrophe that I will
wounded shall groan. bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ”
Though Babylon were to mount up to Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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heaven, Zedekiah was twenty-one years old
And though she were to fortify the 52 when he became king, and he reigned
height of her strength, eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name
Yet from Me plunderers would come to was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of
her,” says the LORD. 2
Libnah. He also did evil in the sight of the
54 The sound of a cry comes from LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had
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Babylon, done. For because of the anger of the LORD
And great destruction from the land of this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, till He
the Chaldeans, finally cast them out from His presence. Then
55 Because the LORD is plundering Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Babylon 4 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his
And silencing her loud voice, reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of
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