26 Come against her from afar.(A)
    Break open her granaries;
    pile her up like heaps of grain.(B)
Completely destroy(C) her
    and leave her no remnant.

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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.

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23 “I will turn her into a place for owls(A)
    and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,(B)
    declares the Lord Almighty.(C)

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23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.

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10 So Babylonia[a] will be plundered;(A)
    all who plunder her will have their fill,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:10 Or Chaldea

10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the Lord.

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I will give you hidden treasures,(A)
    riches stored in secret places,(B)
so that you may know(C) that I am the Lord,
    the God of Israel, who summons you by name.(D)

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And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

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15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword(A) with which to strike down(B) the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a](C) He treads the winepress(D) of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 19:15 Psalm 2:9

15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

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The Finality of Babylon’s Doom

21 Then a mighty angel(A) picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea,(B) and said:

“With such violence
    the great city(C) of Babylon will be thrown down,
    never to be found again.
22 The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
    will never be heard in you again.(D)
No worker of any trade
    will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
    will never be heard in you again.(E)
23 The light of a lamp
    will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
    will never be heard in you again.(F)
Your merchants were the world’s important people.(G)
    By your magic spell(H) all the nations were led astray.
24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,(I)
    of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.”(J)

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21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

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19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.(A)

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19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

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10 Then my enemy will see it
    and will be covered with shame,(A)
she who said to me,
    “Where is the Lord your God?”(B)
My eyes will see her downfall;(C)
    even now she will be trampled(D) underfoot
    like mire in the streets.

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10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

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64 Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more(A) because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people(B) will fall.’”(C)

The words of Jeremiah end(D) here.

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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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44 I will punish Bel(A) in Babylon
    and make him spew out(B) what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
    And the wall(C) of Babylon will fall.

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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.

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25 “I am against(A) you, you destroying mountain,
    you who destroy the whole earth,”(B)
declares the Lord.
“I will stretch out my hand(C) against you,
    roll you off the cliffs,
    and make you a burned-out mountain.(D)
26 No rock will be taken from you for a cornerstone,
    nor any stone for a foundation,
    for you will be desolate(E) forever,”
declares the Lord.

27 “Lift up a banner(F) in the land!
    Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations for battle against her;
    summon against her these kingdoms:(G)
    Ararat,(H) Minni and Ashkenaz.(I)
Appoint a commander against her;
    send up horses like a swarm of locusts.(J)
28 Prepare the nations for battle against her—
    the kings of the Medes,(K)
their governors and all their officials,
    and all the countries they rule.(L)

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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.

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.

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 caterpillers.

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.

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41 “Look! An army is coming from the north;(A)
    a great nation and many kings
    are being stirred(B) up from the ends of the earth.(C)

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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.

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23 How broken and shattered
    is the hammer(A) of the whole earth!(B)
How desolate(C) is Babylon
    among the nations!

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23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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