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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 50
The word that the Lord hath spoken against Babylon,
and against the land of the Chaldeans in the hand of
Jeremias the prophet.
Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up
a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon
is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown,
their graven things are confounded, their idols are
overthrown.
For a nation is come up against her out of the north,
which shall make her land desolate: and there shall
be none to dwell therein, from man even to beast:: yea
they are removed, and gone away.
In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the
children of Israel shall come, they and the children
of Juda together: going and weeping they shall make
haste, and shall seek the Lord their God.
They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward.
They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by
an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten.
My people have been a lost flock, their shepherds have
caused them to go astray, and have made them wander
in the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill,
they have forgotten their resting place.
All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies
said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have
sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against
the Lord the hope of their fathers.
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out
of the land of the Chaldeans: and be ye as kids at the
head of the flock.
For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon
an assembly of great nations from the land of the north:
and they shall be prepared against her, and from thence
she shall be taken: their arrows, like those of a mighty
man, a destroyer, shall not return in vain.
And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that waste her
shall be filled, saith the Lord.
Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging
my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves
upon the grass, and have bellowed as bulls.
Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that
bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall
be the last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable,
and dry.
Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited,
but shall be wholly desolate: every one that shall pass
by Babylon, shall be astonished, and hiss at all her
plagues.
Prepare yourselves against Babylon round about, all
you that bend the bow: fight against her, spare not
arrows: because she hath sinned against the Lord.
Shout against her, she hath every where 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, so do to her.
Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth
the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword
of the dove every man shall return to his people, and
every one shall flee to his own land.
Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him
away: first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last
this Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath broken his
bones.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
Behold I will visit the king of Babylon and his land,
as I have visited the king of Assyria.
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation: and
he shall feed on Carmel, and Bason, and his soul shall
be satisfied in mount Ephraim, and Galaad.
In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the
iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall
be none: and the sin of Juda, and there shall none be
found: for I will be merciful to them, whom I shall
leave.
Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the
inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them,
saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have
commanded thee.
A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed!
how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!
I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art
taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou
art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the
Lord.
The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth
the weapons of his wrath : for the Lord the God of hosts
hath a work to be done in the land of the Chaldeans.
Come ye against her from the uttermost borders: open
that they may go forth that shall tread her down: take
the stones out of the way, and make heaps, and destroy
her: and let nothing of her be left.
Destroy all her valiant men, let them go down to the
slaughter: woe to them, for their day is come, the time
of their visitation.
The voice of them that flee, and of them that have escaped
out of the land of Babylon: to declare in Sion the revenge
of the Lord our God, the revenge of his temple.
Declare to many against Babylon, to all that bend the
bow: stand together against her round about, and let
nose escape; pay her according to her work: according
to all that she hath done, do ye to her: for she hath
lifted up herself against the Lord, against the Holy
One of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets: and
all her men of war shall hold their peace in that day,
saith the Lord.
Behold I come against thee, O proud one, saith the Lord
the God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time of thy
visitation.
And the proud one shall fall, he shall fall down, and
there shall be none to lift him up: and I will kindle
a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round
about him.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The children of Israel,
and the children of Juda are oppressed together: all
that have taken them captives, hold them fast, they
will not let them go.
Their redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts is his name
: he will defend their cause in judgment, to terrify
the land, and to disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon
the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and
upon her wise men.
A sword upon her diviners, and they shall be foolish:
a sword upon her valiant ones, and they shall be dismayed.
A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots,
and upon all the people that are in the midst of her:
and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures,
and they shall be made a spoil.
A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up:
because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous
things.
Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns:
and ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no
more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be built up
from generation to generation.
As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and their
neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell
there, neither shall the son of man inhabit it.
Behold a people cometh from the north, and a great nation,
and many kings shall rise from the ends of the earth.
They shall take the bow and the shield: they are cruel
and unmerciful: their voice shall roar like the sea,
and they shall ride upon horses: like a man prepared
for battle against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and
his hands are grown feeble: anguish hath taken hold
of him, pangs as a, woman in labour.
Behold he shall come up like a lion from the swelling
of the Jordan to the strong and beautiful: for I will
make him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the
chosen one whom I may appoint over her? for who is like
to me? and who shall bear up against me? and who is
that shepherd that can withstand my countenance?
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he
hath taken against Babylon: and his thoughts which he
hath thought against the land of the Chaldeans: surely
the little ones of the flocks shall pull them down,
of a truth their habitation shall be destroyed with
them.
At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved,
and the cry is heard amongst the nations. |
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