Jeremiah 51:33-64

New King James Version

“The daughter of Babylon is ^(A)like a threshing floor
When ^(B)it is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
^(C)And the time of her harvest will come.”

³⁴ “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has ^(D)devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an ^(E)empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
³⁵ Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.

“Behold, ^(F)I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
^(G)I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
^37 (H)Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
^(I)An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
³⁸ They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions’ whelps.
³⁹ In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
^(J)I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
⁴⁰ “I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.

⁴¹ “Oh, how ^(K)Sheshach^[a] is taken!
Oh, how ^(L)the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
^42 (M)The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
^43 (N)Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where ^(O)no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
⁴⁴ I will punish ^(P)Bel^[b] in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, ^(Q)the wall of Babylon shall fall.

⁴⁵ “My^(R) people, go out of the midst of her!
And let everyone deliver ^[c]himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.
⁴⁶ And lest your heart faint,
And you fear ^(S)for the rumor that will be heard in the land
(A rumor will come one year,
And after that, in another year
A rumor will come,
And violence in the land,
Ruler against ruler),
⁴⁷ Therefore behold, the days are coming
That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Her whole land shall be ashamed,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst.
⁴⁸ Then ^(T)the heavens and the earth and all that is in them
Shall sing joyously over Babylon;
^(U)For the plunderers shall come to her from the north,” says the Lord.

⁴⁹ As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.
^50 (V)You who have escaped the sword,
Get away! Do not stand still!
^(W)Remember the Lord afar off,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind.

^51 (X)We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.
Shame has covered our faces,
For strangers ^(Y)have come into the ^[d]sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

⁵² “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.
^53 (Z)Though Babylon were to ^[e]mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord.

^54 (AA)The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,
⁵⁵ Because the Lord is plundering Babylon
And silencing her loud voice,
Though her waves roar like great waters,
And the noise of their voice is uttered,
⁵⁶ Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon,
And her mighty men are taken.
Every one of their bows is broken;
^(AB)For the Lord is the God of recompense,
He will surely repay.

⁵⁷ “And I will make drunk
Her princes and ^(AC)wise men,
Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says ^(AD)the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts.

“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly ^(AE)broken,^[f]
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
^(AF)The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”