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Jeremiah 28
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1Thus says the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.
1Yahweh says: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
2And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about [her] in the day of her affliction.
2I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.
3Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armor put it on: and spare you⌃ not her young men, but destroy you⌃ all her host.
3Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!
4And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.
4They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
5For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.
5For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
6Flee you⌃ out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every one his soul: and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord; he is rendering to her a recompence.
6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will give to her a recompense.
7Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, causing all the earth to be drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were shaken.
7Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
8And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.
8Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.
9We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.
9“We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
10The Lord has brought forth his judgment: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.
10‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness. Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
11Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes: for his wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance , it is the vengeance of his people.
11“Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
12Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons: for the Lord has taken [the work] in hand, and will execute what he has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,
12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
13dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; your end is come verily into your bowels.
13You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
14For the Lord has sworn by his arm, [saying, ]I will fill you with menas with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against you.
14Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift up a shout against you.’
15The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.
15“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
16At [his] voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures.
16When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
17Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven [images]: for they have cast false [gods], there is no breath in them.
17“Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitationthey shall perish.
18They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
19Not such is Jacob's portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
19The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he formed all things, including the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
20You scatter for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by you, and will destroy kings by means of you.
20“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.
21And by you I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by you I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.
21With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.
22And by you I will scatter youth and maid; and by you I will scatter man and woman.
22With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.
23And by you I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by you I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by you I will scatter leaders and the captains.
23With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies.
24And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell [there] all their mischiefs that they have done to Sion before your eyes,says the Lord.
24“I will give to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
25Behold, I am against you, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon you, and will roll you down upon the rocks, and will make you as a burnt mountain.
25“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.
26And they shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation: for you shall be a desolation for ever,says the Lord.
26They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
27Lift up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by me, and [that] for the people of Achanaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.
27“Set 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 Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the swarming locusts!
28Bring up nations against her , [even] the king of the Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains.
28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
29The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon , to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.
29The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
30The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
30The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
31One shall rush, running to meet [another] runner, and one [shall go] with tidings to meet [another] with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken .
31One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
32At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
32So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”
33For thus says the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.
33For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
34He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hasswallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
34“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
35My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; andmy blood [shall be] upon the Chaldeans dwelling [there], shall Jerusalem say.
35May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.
36Therefore thus says the Lord, Behold, I will judge your adversary, and I will execute vengeance for you; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain .
36Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
37And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.
37Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
38For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
38They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
39In their heat I will give them a draught, and make them drunk, that they may be stupified, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake,says the Lord.
39When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
40And bring you them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
41How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
41“How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
42The sea has come up upon Babylonwith the sound of its waves, and she is covered.
42The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
43Her cities are become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one [man] shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.
43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.
44And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her:
44I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
49and in Babylon the slain men of all the earth shall fall .
49“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
50Go forth of the land, you⌃ that escape, and stay not; you⌃ that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
50You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
51We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary, [even] into the house of the Lord.
51“We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
52Therefore, behold, the days come,says the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven [images]: and slain men shall fall in all her land .
52“Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan.
53For though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and though she should strengthen her walls with her power, from me shall come they that shall destroy her ,says the Lord.
53Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
54A sound of a cry in Babylon, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans:
54“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
55for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon , and cut off from her the great voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned her voice to destruction.
55For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.
56For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.
56For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of retribution. He will surely repay.
57The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise menand her captains completely drunk, says the King, the Lord Almighty is his name .
57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
58Thus says the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire; and the peoples shall not labor in vain, nor the nations fail in [their] rule.
58Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
59THE WORD WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THE PROPHET JEREMIAS to say to Saraeas son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, when he went from Sedekias king of Juda to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Saraeas was over the bounties.
59The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
60And Jeremias wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.
60Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
61And Jeremias said to Saraeas, When you are come to Babylon, and shall see and read all these words;
61Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
62then you shall say, O Lord God, you have spoken against this place, to destroy it , and that there should be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desolation for ever.
62and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’
63And it shall come to pass, when you shall cease from reading this book, that you shall bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates;
63It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
64and shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise, because of the evils which I bring upon it.
64Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.