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47:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
 Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
47:2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall
 be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is
 therein; the city, and them that dwell therein:  then the men shall cry,
 and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at
 the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the
 fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
47:4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to
 cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth:  for the LORD
 will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of
 their valley:  how long wilt thou cut thyself?
47:6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?  put
 up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against
 Ashkelon, and against the sea shore?  there hath he appointed it.

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48:1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto
 Nebo!  for it is spoiled:  Kiriathaim is confounded and taken:  Misgab is
 confounded and dismayed.
48:2 There shall be no more praise of Moab:  in Heshbon they have devised
 evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.  Also
 thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
48:3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
 destruction.
48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
48:5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the
 going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
48:7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou
 shalt also be taken:  and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his
 priests and his princes together.
48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: 
 the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD
 hath spoken.
48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away:  for the cities
 thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
48:10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed
 be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
48:11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his
 lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone
 into captivity:  therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not
 changed.
48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send
 unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his
 vessels, and break their bottles.
48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
 ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
48:14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
48:15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young
 men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the
 LORD of hosts.
48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth
 fast.
48:17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name,
 say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!
48:18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and
 sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall
 destroy thy strong holds.
48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that
 fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
48:20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down:  howl and cry; tell ye it
 in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,
48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon
 Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
48:22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
48:23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
48:24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land
 of Moab, far or near.
48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
48:26 Make ye him drunken:  for he magnified himself against the LORD: 
 Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
48:27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee?  was he found among thieves? 
 for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
48:28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and
 be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
48:29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
 loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his
 heart.
48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies
 shall not so effect it.
48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine
 heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.
48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer:  thy
 plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer:  the
 spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the
 land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses:  none
 shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz,
 have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an
 heifer of three years old:  for the waters also of Nimrim shall be
 desolate.
48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that
 offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.
48:36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart
 shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres:  because the riches that
 he hath gotten are perished.
48:37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped:  upon all the
 hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
48:38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab,
 and in the streets thereof:  for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein
 is no pleasure, saith the LORD.
48:39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down!  how hath Moab
 turned the back with shame!  so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to
 all them about him.
48:40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall
 spread his wings over Moab.
48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty
 men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her
 pangs.
48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath
 magnified himself against the LORD.
48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant
 of Moab, saith the LORD.
48:44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that
 getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare:  for I will bring
 upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
48:45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force:
  but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of
 Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of
 the tumultuous ones.
48:46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab!  the people of Chemosh perisheth:  for thy
 sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
48:47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith
 the LORD.  Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

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49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? 
 hath he no heir?  why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people
 dwell in his cities?
49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an
 alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a
 desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire:  then shall
 Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled:  cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird
 you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their
 king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
49:4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O
 backsliding daughter?  that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall
 come unto me?
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts,
 from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man
 right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
49:6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of
 Ammon, saith the LORD.
49:7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in
 Teman?  is counsel perished from the prudent?  is their wisdom vanished?
49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will
 bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
49:9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning
 grapes?  if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he
 shall not be able to hide himself:  his seed is spoiled, and his brethren,
 and his neighbours, and he is not.
49:11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let
 thy widows trust in me.
49:12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to
 drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall
 altogether go unpunished?  thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt
 surely drink of it.
49:13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a
 desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof
 shall be perpetual wastes.
49:14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto
 the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise
 up to the battle.
49:15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised
 among men.
49:16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O
 thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of
 the hill:  though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will
 bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
49:17 Also Edom shall be a desolation:  every one that goeth by it shall be
 astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
 thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of
 man dwell in it.
49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
 against the habitation of the strong:  but I will suddenly make him run
 away from her:  and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? 
 for who is like me?  and who will appoint me the time?  and who is that
 shepherd that will stand before me?
49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against
 Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of
 Teman:  Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:  surely he shall
 make their habitations desolate with them.
49:21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise
 thereof was heard in the Red sea.
49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings
 over Bozrah:  and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be
 as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
49:23 Concerning Damascus.  Hamath is confounded, and Arpad:  for they have
 heard evil tidings:  they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;
 it cannot be quiet.
49:24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath
 seized on her:  anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in
 travail.
49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of
 war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume
 the palaces of Benhadad.
49:28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which
 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye,
 go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away:  they shall take to
 themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and
 they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
49:30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith
 the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against
 you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
49:31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care,
 saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a
 spoil:  and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost
 corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the
 LORD.
49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for
 ever:  there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
49:34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in
 the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
49:35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,
 the chief of their might.
49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of
 heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no
 nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
49:37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before
 them that seek their life:  and I will bring evil upon them, even my
 fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I
 have consumed them:
49:38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the
 king and the princes, saith the LORD.
49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring
 again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

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50:1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of
 the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard;
 publish, and conceal not:  say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded,
 Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are
 broken in pieces.
50:3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall
 make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein:  they shall remove,
 they shall depart, both man and beast.
50:4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel
 shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: 
 they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
50:5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying,
 Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that
 shall not be forgotten.
50:6 My people hath been lost sheep:  their shepherds have caused them to go
 astray, they have turned them away on the mountains:  they have gone from
 mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
50:7 All that found them have devoured them:  and their adversaries said, We
 offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of
 justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
50:8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the
 Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
50:9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly
 of great nations from the north country:  and they shall set themselves in
 array against her; from thence she shall be taken:  their arrows shall be
 as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil:  all that spoil her shall be satisfied,
 saith the LORD.
50:11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine
 heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as
 bulls;
50:12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be
 ashamed:  behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a
 dry land, and a desert.
50:13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it
 shall be wholly desolate:  every one that goeth by Babylon shall be
 astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
50:14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about:  all ye that bend
 the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows:  for she hath sinned against the
 LORD.
50:15 Shout against her round about:  she hath given her hand:  her
 foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down:  for it is the
 vengeance of the LORD:  take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto
 her.
50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in
 the time of harvest:  for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn
 every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
50:17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: 
 first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar
 king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
50:18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
 will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king
 of Assyria.
50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on
 Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and
 Gilead.
50:20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of
 Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of
 Judah, and they shall not be found:  for I will pardon them whom I reserve.
50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against
 the inhabitants of Pekod:  waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the
 LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!  how is
 Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and
 thou wast not aware:  thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast
 striven against the LORD.
50:25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons
 of his indignation:  for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the
 land of the Chaldeans.
50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses:  cast
 her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly:  let nothing of her be left.
50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter:  woe unto
 them!  for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to
 declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his
 temple.
50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon:  all ye that bend the bow,
 camp against it round about; let none thereof escape:  recompense her
 according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: 
 for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of
 war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
50:31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD
 of hosts:  for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.
50:32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him
 up:  and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round
 about him.
50:33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children
 of Judah were oppressed together:  and all that took them captives held
 them fast; they refused to let them go.
50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name:  he shall
 thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and
 disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
 inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
50:36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote:  a sword is upon
 her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
50:37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all
 the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as
 women:  a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
50:38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up:  for it
 is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the
 islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein:  and it
 shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from
 generation to generation.
50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
 thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any
 son of man dwell therein.
50:41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and
 many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
50:42 They shall hold the bow and the lance:  they are cruel, and will not
 show mercy:  their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon
 horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O
 daughter of Babylon.
50:43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed
 feeble:  anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
50:44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto
 the habitation of the strong:  but I will make them suddenly run away from
 her:  and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?  for who
 is like me?  and who will appoint me the time?  and who is that
 shepherd that will stand before me?
50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against
 Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the
 Chaldeans:  Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:  surely he
 shall make their habitation desolate with them.
50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry
 is heard among the nations.

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51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and
 against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a
 destroying wind;
51:2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty
 her land:  for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
51:3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against
 him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine:  and spare ye not her
 young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that
 are thrust through in her streets.
51:5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the
 LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One
 of Israel.
51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul:  be
 not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S
 vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.
51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the
 earth drunken:  the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations
 are mad.
51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed:  howl for her; take balm for
 her pain, if so be she may be healed.
51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed:  forsake her, and
 let us go every one into his own country:  for her judgment reacheth unto
 heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
51:10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness:  come, and let us
 declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields:  the LORD hath raised up
 the spirit of the kings of the Medes:  for his device is against Babylon,
 to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of
 his temple.
51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong,
 set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes:  for the LORD hath both devised
 and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine
 end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
51:14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill
 thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against
 thee.
51:15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by
 his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
51:16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the
 heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: 
 he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his
 treasures.
51:17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded
 by the graven image:  for his molten image is falsehood, and there is
 no breath in them.
51:18 They are vanity, the work of errors:  in the time of their
 visitation they shall perish.
51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all
 things:  and Israel is the rod of his inheritance:  the LORD of hosts
 is his name.
51:20 Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war:  for with thee will I
 break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with
 thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
51:22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee
 will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces
 the young man and the maid;
51:23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and
 with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and
 with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
 all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
51:25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD,
 which destroyest all the earth:  and I will stretch out mine hand upon
 thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt
 mountain.
51:26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for
 foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations,
 prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of
 Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the
 horses to come up as the rough caterpillars.
51:28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the
 captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his
 dominion.
51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow:  for every purpose of the LORD
 shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a
 desolation without an inhabitant.
51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained
 in their holds:  their might hath failed; they became as women:  they
 have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another,
 to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with
 fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of
 Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her:  yet a
 little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed
 me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon,
 he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the
 inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall
 Jerusalem say.
51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and
 take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs
 dry.
51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, and
 astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
51:38 They shall roar together like lions:  they shall yell as lions'
 whelps.
51:39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken,
 that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the
 LORD.
51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he
 goats.
51:41 How is Sheshach taken!  and how is the praise of the whole earth
 surprised!  how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon:  she is covered with the multitude of
 the waves thereof.
51:43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land
 wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
51:44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his
 mouth that which he hath swallowed up:  and the nations shall not flow
 together any more unto him:  yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his
 soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
51:46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be
 heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in
 another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler
 against ruler.
51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the
 graven images of Babylon:  and her whole land shall be confounded, and all
 her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing
 for Babylon:  for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith
 the LORD.
51:49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon
 shall fall the slain of all the earth.
51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:  remember
 the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach:  shame hath covered
 our faces:  for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S
 house.
51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do
 judgment upon her graven images:  and through all her land the wounded
 shall groan.
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
 fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto
 her, saith the LORD.
51:54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the
 land of the Chaldeans:
51:55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the
 great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their
 voice is uttered:
51:56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her
 mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken:  for the LORD God
 of recompenses shall surely requite.
51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains,
 and her rulers, and her mighty men:  and they shall sleep a perpetual
 sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be
 utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the
 people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be
 weary.
51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of
 Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah
 into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign.  And this Seraiah was a
 quiet prince.
51:60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
 Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt
 see, and shalt read all these words;
51:62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to
 cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that
 it shall be desolate for ever.
51:63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book,
 that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
 Euphrates:
51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from
 the evil that I will bring upon her:  and they shall be weary.  Thus far
 are the words of Jeremiah.

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52:1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
 reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Hamutal the
 daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
52:2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to
 all that Jehoiakim had done.
52:3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
 Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled
 against the king of Babylon.
52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
 in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
 came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and
 built forts against it round about.
52:5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine
 was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the
 land.
52:7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went
 forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two
 walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the
 city round about: ) and they went by the way of the plain.
52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook
 Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to
 Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes:  he
 slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
52:11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound
 him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the
 day of his death.
52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was
 the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,
 captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the
 houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with
 fire:
52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the
 guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
 certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that
 remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of
 Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of
 the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
52:17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and
 the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the
 Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
52:18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls,
 and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered,
 took they away.
52:19 And the basins, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and
 the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold
 in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain
 of the guard away.
52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that were under
 the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD:  the brass
 of all these vessels was without weight.
52:21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen
 cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness
 thereof was four fingers:  it was hollow.
52:22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter
 was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round
 about, all of brass.  The second pillar also and the pomegranates were
 like unto these.
52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the
 pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
 Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
52:25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the
 men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which
 were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered
 the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that
 were found in the midst of the city.
52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to
 the king of Babylon to Riblah.
52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in
 the land of Hamath.  Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own
 land.
52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive:  in the
 seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from
 Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the
 captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty
 and five persons:  all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
 of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and
 twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the
 first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah,
 and brought him forth out of prison,
52:32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the
 kings that were with him in Babylon,
52:33 And changed his prison garments:  and he did continually eat bread
 before him all the days of his life.
52:34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king
 of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of
 his life.