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Jeremiah 28
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.
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This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.
And 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.
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I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.
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Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.
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And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans (note: That is, the Babylonians; also in verse 54), and pierced through in her streets.
For 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.
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For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
Flee ye 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.
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Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
Babylon 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.
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Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
And 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.
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Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
We 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.
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“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
The Lord has brought forth his judgment: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.
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“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
Prepare 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.
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Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers (note: LXX and some translations of the Hebrew; literally Fill the hand with the shields! or Take up the shields!)! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD—vengeance for His temple.
Lift 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,
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Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; thine end is come verily into thy bowels.
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You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
For the Lord has sworn by his arm, [saying], I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against thee.
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The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.
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The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
At [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.
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When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Every 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.
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Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
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They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
Not such is Jacob's portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.
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The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
Thou scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee.
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“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
And by thee I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by thee I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.
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With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.
And by thee I will scatter youth and maid; and by thee I will scatter man and woman.
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With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
And by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by thee I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by thee I will scatter leaders and the captains.
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With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
And 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, saith the Lord.
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Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea (note: That is, Babylonia; also in verse 35) for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
Behold, I am against thee, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will roll thee down upon the rocks, and will make thee as a burnt mountain.
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“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
And they shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation: for thou shalt be a desolation for ever, saith the Lord.
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No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
Lift 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.
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“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
Bring up nations against her, [even] the king of the Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains.
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Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
The 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.
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The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
The 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.
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The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
One 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.
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One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.
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The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
For thus saith 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.
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For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
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“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood [shall be] upon the Chaldeans dwelling [there], shall Jerusalem say.
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May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.
51:36
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.
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Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals (note: Or serpents or dragons), an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
For they rose up together as lions, and as lions' whelps.
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They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
In 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, saith the Lord.
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While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
And bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.
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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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How Sheshach (note: Sheshach is a code name for Babylon.) has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is covered.
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The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
Her 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.
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Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
And 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:
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I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
and in Babylon the slain men of all the earth shall fall.
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“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
Go forth of the land, ye that escape, and stay not; ye that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
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You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
We 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.
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“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven [images]: and slain men shall fall in all her land.
51:52
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
For 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, saith the Lord.
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Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
A sound of a cry in Babylon, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans:
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“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
for 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.
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For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.
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For a destroyer is coming against her—against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, saith the King, the Lord Almighty is his name.
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I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Thus saith 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 labour in vain, nor the nations fail in [their] rule.
51:58
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
The Word which the Lord commanded the Prophet Jeremias to say to Saræas son of Nerias, son of Maasæas, when he went from Sedekias king of Juda to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Saræas was over the bounties.
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This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
And Jeremias wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon, [even] all these words that are written against Babylon.
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Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
And Jeremias said to Saræas, When thou art come to Babylon, and shalt see and read all these words;
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And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,
then thou shalt say, O Lord God, thou hast 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.
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and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt cease from reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates;
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When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise, because of the evils which I bring upon it.
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Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.