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35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, the inhabitant of Zion will say. And, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry. 37 And Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.
38 They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions' cubs. 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice and sleep an everlasting sleep and not wake, says Jehovah. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male-goats.
41 How Sheshach is taken and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 42 The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it. 44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he has swallowed up. And the nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 My people, go out of the midst of her and save yourselves each man from the fierce anger of Jehovah. 46 And do not let your* heart faint. Neither fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year and after that in another year, news and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon. And her whole land will be confounded and all her slain will fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in it, will sing for joy over Babylon. For the destroyers will come to her from the north, says Jehovah. 49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon will fall the slain of all the land.
50 You* who have escaped the sword, go; do not stand still. Remember Jehovah from afar and let Jerusalem come into your* mind. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces. For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.
52 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images and through all her land the wounded will groan. 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me destroyers will come to her, says Jehovah.
54 The sound of a cry from Babylon and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! 55 For Jehovah lays Babylon waste and destroys the great voice out of her and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered. 56 For the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon and her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces.
For Jehovah is a God of recompenses; he will surely reward.
57 And I will make drunk her rulers and her wise men, her governors and her deputies and her mighty men. And they will sleep a everlasting sleep and not wake, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
58 Jehovah of hosts says thus: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown and her high gates will be burned with fire. And the peoples will labor for vanity and the nations for the fire and they will be weary.
36 Therefore Jehovah says thus: Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry. 37 And Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without inhabitant.
38 They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions' cubs. 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice and sleep an everlasting sleep and not wake, says Jehovah. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male-goats.
41 How Sheshach is taken and the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations! 42 The sea has come up upon Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of the waves of it.
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it. 44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he has swallowed up. And the nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 My people, go out of the midst of her and save yourselves each man from the fierce anger of Jehovah. 46 And do not let your* heart faint. Neither fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year and after that in another year, news and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon. And her whole land will be confounded and all her slain will fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in it, will sing for joy over Babylon. For the destroyers will come to her from the north, says Jehovah. 49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon will fall the slain of all the land.
50 You* who have escaped the sword, go; do not stand still. Remember Jehovah from afar and let Jerusalem come into your* mind. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces. For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.
52 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images and through all her land the wounded will groan. 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me destroyers will come to her, says Jehovah.
54 The sound of a cry from Babylon and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! 55 For Jehovah lays Babylon waste and destroys the great voice out of her and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered. 56 For the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon and her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces.
For Jehovah is a God of recompenses; he will surely reward.
57 And I will make drunk her rulers and her wise men, her governors and her deputies and her mighty men. And they will sleep a everlasting sleep and not wake, says the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
58 Jehovah of hosts says thus: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown and her high gates will be burned with fire. And the peoples will labor for vanity and the nations for the fire and they will be weary.