of Israel:Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,As I have punished the king of Assyria.19And I will bring Israel back to his pasture,And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,And his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.20In 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 leave as a remnant. 21Go up against the land of 7Merathaim, even against it,And against the inhabitants of 8Pekod;Waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord,And do according to all that I have commanded thee.22Hark! battle is in the land,And great destruction.23How is the hammer of the whole earthCut asunder and broken!How is Babylon becomeA desolation among the nations!24I 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.25The Lord hath opened His armoury,And hath brought forth the weapons of His indignation;For it is a work that the Lord God of hostsHath to do in the land of the Chaldeans.26Come against her from every quarter, open her granaries,Cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly;Let nothing of her be left.27Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter;Woe unto them! for their day is come,The time of their visitation.28Hark! they 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.29Call together the archers against Babylon,All them that bend the bow;Encamp against her 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 arrogant against the Lord,Against the Holy One of Israel.30Therefore shall her young men fall in her broad places,And all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,Saith the Lord. 31Behold, I am against thee, O thou most arrogant,Saith the Lord God of hosts;For thy day is come,The time that I will punish thee.32And the most arrogant shall stumble and fall,And none shall raise him up;And I will kindle a fire in his cities,And it shall devour all that are round about him. 33Thus saith the Lord of hosts:The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together;And all that took them captives hold them fast;They refuse to let them go.34Their Redeemer is strong,The Lord of hosts is His name;He will thoroughly plead their cause,That He may give rest to the earth,And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord,And upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.36A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools;A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.37A 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.38A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up;For it is a land of graven images,And they are mad upon things of horror.39Therefore the wild-cats with the jackals shall dwell there,And the ostriches shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited for ever,Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.40As when God overthrew Sodom and GomorrahAnd the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord;So shall no man abide there,Neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 41Behold, a people cometh from the north,And a great nation, and many kingsShall be roused from the uttermost parts of the earth.42They lay hold on bow and spear,They are cruel, and have no compassion;Their voice is like the roaring sea,And they ride upon horses;Set in array, as a man for war,Against thee, O daughter of Babylon.43The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them,And his hands wax feeble;Anguish hath taken hold of him,And pain, as of a woman in travail.44Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of the JordanAgainst the strong habitation;For I will suddenly make them run away from it,And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it;For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a time?And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me?45Therefore 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 drag them away,Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them.46At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth quaketh,And the cry is heard among the nations.
51Thus saith the Lord:
Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,And against them that dwell in 9Lebkamai, a destroying wind.2And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall fan her,And they shall empty her land;For in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.3Let the archer bend his bow against her,And let him lift himself up against her in his coat of mail;And spare ye not her young men,Destroy ye utterly all her host.4And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,And thrust through in her streets.5For Israel is not widowed, nor Judah,Of his God, of the Lord of hosts;For their land is full of guiltAgainst the Holy One of Israel.6Flee out of the midst of Babylon,And save every man his life,Be not cut off in her iniquity;For it is the time of the Lord's vengeance;He will render unto her a recompense.7Babylon hath been a golden cup in Lord's hand,That made all the earth drunken;The nations have drunk of her wine,Therefore the nations are mad.8Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed,Wail for her;Take balm for her pain,If so be she may be healed.9We 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.10The Lord hath brought forth our victory;Come, and let us declare in ZionThe work of the Lord our God. 11Make bright the arrows,Fill the quivers,The Lord hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes;Because His device is against Babylon, to destroy it;For it is the vengeance of the Lord,The vengeance of His temple.12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon,Make the watch strong,Set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes;For the Lord hath both devised and doneThat which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.13O thou that dwellest upon many waters,Abundant in treasures,Thine end is come,The measure of thy covetousness.14The Lord of hosts hath sworn by Himself:Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm,And they shall lift up a shout against thee. 15He that hath made the earth by His power,That hath established the world by His wisdom,And hath stretched out the heavens by His discernment;16At the sound of His giving a multitude of waters in the heavens,He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;He maketh lightnings at the time of the rain,And bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries;17Every man is proved to be brutish, for the knowledge—Every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image—That his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.18They are vanity, a work of delusion;In the time of their visitation they shall perish,19The portion of Jacob is not like these;For He is the former of all things,And [Israel] is the tribe of His inheritance;The Lord of hosts is His name. 20Thou art My maul and weapons of war,And with thee will I shatter the nations,And with thee will I destroy kingdoms;21And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider,And with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth therein;22And with thee will I shatter man and woman,And with thee will I shatter the old man and the youth,And with thee will I shatter the young man and the maid;23And with thee will I shatter the shepherd and his flock,And with thee will I shatter the husbandman and his yoke of oxen,And with thee will I shatter governors and deputies.24And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of ChaldeaAll their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight;Saith the Lord. 25Behold, I am against thee,O destroying mountain, saith the Lord,Which destroyest all the earth;And I will stretch out My hand upon thee,And roll thee down from the rocks,And will make thee a burnt mountain.26And 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. 27Set ye up a standard in the land,Blow the horn 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 rough canker-worm.28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes,The governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof,And all the land of his dominion.29And the