Rotherham(i)
51 We have turned pale, for we have heard a reproach, Confusion, hath covered, our faces,––For aliens have entered upon the hallowed places of the house of Yahweh!
52 Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, When I will bring punishment upon her images; And, throughout all her land, shall the pierced, one, groan.
53 Though Babylon should mount, the heavens, And though she should fortify her strong high–place, From me, should come spoilers unto her, Declareth Yahweh.
54 A voice of outcry from Babylon! And a great crash from the land of the Chaldeans!
55 For, Yahweh, is spoiling, Babylon, And will destroy out of her the loud voice,––Though their waves have roared like many waters, Been uttered the loud boast of their voice.
56 For there hath come upon her––upon Babylon––a spoiler, And captured, are their heroes, And broken, are their bows,––For, a GOD of recompenses, is Yahweh, He will, surely repay.
57 Then will I make drunk––Her princes and her wise men, Her governors, and her deputies, and her heroes, And they shall sleep an age–abiding sleep, and not wake,––Declareth the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
58 Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––The broad walls of Babylon, shall be, laid utterly bare, And, her lofty gates, with fire, shall be burned,––And peoples shall labour for emptiness, And, populations, for the fire, shall weary themselves.
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah into Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign,––now, Seraiah, was travelling–marshal. 60 So Jeremiah wrote, all the calamity which was to come unto Babylon, in one scroll; even all these words which have been written against Babylon. 61 Then said Jeremiah unto Seraiah,––When thou comest into Babylon, then shalt thou look out and read, all these words; 62 and thou shalt say––O Yahweh! thou thyself, hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, That there be in it no inhabitant, Neither man nor beast,––But, desolations age–abiding, shall it become! 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this scroll, that thou shalt bind thereunto a stone, and cast it in the midst of the Euphrates. 64 Then shalt thou say,––In like manner, shall Babylon sink and not rise, Because of the calamity which I, am about to bring thereupon: So shall they perish. Thus far, are, the words of Jeremiah.
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah into Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign,––now, Seraiah, was travelling–marshal. 60 So Jeremiah wrote, all the calamity which was to come unto Babylon, in one scroll; even all these words which have been written against Babylon. 61 Then said Jeremiah unto Seraiah,––When thou comest into Babylon, then shalt thou look out and read, all these words; 62 and thou shalt say––O Yahweh! thou thyself, hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, That there be in it no inhabitant, Neither man nor beast,––But, desolations age–abiding, shall it become! 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this scroll, that thou shalt bind thereunto a stone, and cast it in the midst of the Euphrates. 64 Then shalt thou say,––In like manner, shall Babylon sink and not rise, Because of the calamity which I, am about to bring thereupon: So shall they perish. Thus far, are, the words of Jeremiah.