Isaiah 13:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ The pronouncement Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in vision.

¹⁹ Babylon, the beauty (honor) (glory) of kingdoms, the majesty of Chaldean pride, will be overthrew by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

⁴ You will mock the king of Babylon with this saying: »How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end! ⁵ »Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers. ⁶ »They struck the people with fury, with blows that did not stop. They ruled nations in anger, persecuting them without restraint. ⁷ »The whole earth rests and is quiet. It breaks out into shouts of joy. ⁸ »‘Even the cypress trees rejoice over you. The cedars of Lebanon say: ‘Since you have fallen, no lumberjack has come to attack us.’ ⁹ »The grave below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up those who are dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones. ¹⁰ »‘All of them will greet you: ‘You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us! ¹¹ »‘Your pride has been brought down to the grave along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out like a bed under you, and worms cover you.’ ¹² »O how you have fallen from heaven, you morning star (shining one), and son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who conquered nations! ¹³ »‘You thought: ‘I will go up to heaven (Mount Zion) and set up my throne above God's stars (messengers). I will sit on the mountain of meeting far away in the north where the gods assemble. ¹⁴ »‘I will go above the top of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.’ ¹⁵ »But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit. ¹⁶ »‘Those who see you stare at you. They look at you closely and say: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook the kingdoms, ¹⁷ who made the world like a desert and tore down its cities and did not let his prisoners go home?’ ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, all of them, have been buried with honor, each in his own tomb. ¹⁹ However you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones (bottom) of the pit like a trampled corpse. ²⁰ You ruined your country and killed your own people. For that reason, you will not be buried like other kings. None of your evil family will survive. ²¹ »Prepare a slaughtering place! The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.« ²² Jehovah of Hosts declares: »I will attack Babylon and bring it to ruin. I will leave nothing! There will be no children, no survivors at all. I, Jehovah, have spoken. ²³ »I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away.« I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken.

²⁸ This message was proclaimed in the year that King Ahaz died:

¹ Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined. Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

¹ »Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

¹ Jehovah rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him. The hearts of the Egyptians melt (their courage fails) within them.

¹ Like a whirlwind sweeping across the desert, disaster will come from a terrifying land. ² I have seen a vision of cruel events, a vision of betrayal and destruction. Army of Elam, attack! Army of Media, lay siege to the cities! God will put an end to the suffering that Babylon has caused. ³ What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor. ⁴ My innermost being reels, horror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. ⁵ They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; Rise up, captains, oil the shields, ⁶ For this is what Jehovah says to me: »Go, station the lookout, and let him report what he sees. ⁷ »When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, a train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention.« ⁸ The watchman called out from the tower: »Sir, I stand on the watchtower every day. Every night, I stand guard at my post. ⁹ »Look! Here come chariots and horsemen in pairs. Then he said: ‘Babylon has fallen! She has fallen! All the idols they worship lie shattered on the ground.’« ¹⁰ You, my people, have been threshed and winnowed. I make known to you what I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel. ¹¹ This is the divine REVELATION ABOUT EDOM. He calls to me from Seir: »Watchman, what of the night? How much of the night is left? Watchman, what of the night?«

¹³ You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia,

¹ What troubles you now that you have all gone up on the roof?

²⁵ »‘Jehovah of Hosts says: ‘In that day the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall. The load that was on it will be destroyed.’« Jehovah has spoken.

¹ This is the vision seen by Isaiah the son of Amoz. It is about Judah and Jerusalem at the time of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.

¹⁴ This is what Jehovah, your redeemer, and the Holy One of Israel, says: »For your sake I will send an army to Babylon. I will bring back all the Babylonian refugees in the ships that they take pride in.

¹ »Listen, O Jacob, my servant, Listen Israel, whom I have chosen. ² »‘This is what Jehovah says, the one who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: ‘Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

¹ »Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender and delicate. ² »Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt; uncover the leg and cross the rivers. ³ »Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance. I will not spare a man.« ⁴ Our Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel. ⁵ »Sit silently and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans. You will no longer be called the queen of kingdoms. ⁶ »I was angry with my people. I profaned my heritage and gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them. You made your yoke very heavy on the aged. ⁷ »‘You said: ‘I will be a queen for a very long time!’ You did not consider these things or remember their outcome. ⁸ »Hear this you sensual one! You dwell securely and say in your heart: ‘I am, and there is no one besides me. I will not sit as a widow. I will not lose children.’ (Revelation 18:2-8) ⁹ »Two things will come on you suddenly in one day: Loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in full measure in spite of your abundance of sorceries, in spite of the great power of your spells. ¹⁰ »You felt sure of yourself in your evil. You thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. Then you said to yourself: ‘I am God! There is no one else like me.’ ¹¹ »Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly, ruin you never dreamed of! ¹² Keep all your magic spells and charms. You have used them since you were young. Perhaps they will be of some help to you. Perhaps you can frighten your enemies. ¹³ »You are powerless in spite of the advice you get. Let your astrologers come forward and save you! Let those people who study the stars, who map out the zones of the heavens tell you from month to month what is going to happen to you. ¹⁴ »Surely they are like stubble. The fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. Here are no coals to warm anyone and no fire to sit by. ¹⁵ »That is all they can do for you, these you have labored with and trafficked with since childhood. Each of them goes on in his error. No one can save you.

³³ Jehovah said to me: »Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, what is Jehovah’s message? You are to say: ‘You are a burden to Jehovah, and he is going to get rid of you.’ ³⁴ »If any of my people or a prophet or a priest even uses the words: ‘Jehovah’s infallable utterance,’ I will punish them and their families. ³⁵ »Each one of you should ask your friends and your relatives: What answer has Jehovah given? What has Jehovah said? ³⁶ »So you must no longer use the words: ‘Jehovah’s infallable utterance,’ because if any of you do, I will make my message a real utterance to you. The people have perverted the words of their God, the living God, the Lord Jehovah. ³⁷ »‘Jeremiah, ask the prophets: ‘What answer did Jehovah give you? What did Jehovah say?’« ³⁸ »‘If you disobey my command and use the words: ‘Jehovah’s utterance,’ then hear this.

¹² »‘When the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their crimes,’ declares Jehovah. ‘I will turn Babylon into a permanent wasteland. ¹³ »‘I will bring on that land all the disasters I threatened to do to it, everything that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations, everything written in this book. ¹⁴ »‘Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the people of Babylon. I will pay them back for what they have done.’« ¹⁵ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel said to me: ‘Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I am sending you drink from it. ¹⁶ »‘When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I am going to send them.’« ¹⁷ So I took the cup from Jehovah’s hand. I made all the nations to whom Jehovah sent me drink from it. ¹⁸ Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials drank from it. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today. ¹⁹ I also made these people drink from it: Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, officials, all his people, ²⁰ and all the foreign people living among them; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of Philistia, those from the cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron, and the people left in Ashdod; ²¹ Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon; ²² all the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings on the seacoast; ²³ Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who shave the hair on their foreheads; ²⁴ all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the foreign people living in the desert; ²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; ²⁶ all the kings of the north, near and far, one after another-all the kingdoms of the earth. Last of all, the king of Sheshach will drink from the cup.

¹ The word Jehovah spoke concerning [BABYLON], the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet: ² »Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say: ‘Babylon has been captured. Bel has been put to shame. Marduk has been shattered! Her images have been put to shame and her idols have been shattered.’ ³ »A nation has come up against her out of the north. It will make her land an object of horror. There will be no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast wander off. They have gone away! ⁴ »In those days and at that time,« declares Jehovah, »the sons of Israel will come. Both they and the sons of Judah will go along weeping as they go. They will seek Jehovah their God. ⁵ »They will ask for the way to Zion turning their faces in its direction. They will come to join themselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten. ⁶ »My people have become lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains. They have gone along from mountain to hill and have forgotten their resting place. ⁷ »All who came upon them have devoured them. Their adversaries said: ‘We are not guilty. They have sinned against Jehovah who is the habitation of righteousness, Even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.’ ⁸ »Wander away from the midst of Babylon. Go forth from the land of the Chaldeans. Be also like male goats at the head of the flock. ⁹ »I am going to stir up an alliance of strong nations from the north and bring it against Babylon. Those nations will take up positions against Babylon. Babylon will be captured from the north. Its enemy's arrows will be like skilled soldiers who don't come back empty-handed. ¹⁰ »The Babylonians will become the prize. All who loot them will get everything they want,« declares Jehovah. ¹¹ »You are happy and excited. You have looted the people who belong to me. You dance around like calves on the grass and neigh like stallions. ¹² »But your mother will be greatly ashamed. The woman who gave birth to you will be disgraced. Babylon, you will be the least important nation. You will become a parched desert. ¹³ »No one will live in Babylon because of Jehovah’s anger. It will be completely abandoned. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and hiss at all its wounds. ¹⁴ »Take up your positions around Babylon, all you archers with bows. Shoot at it and do not save any arrows. For the people of Babylon have sinned against Jehovah. ¹⁵ »Shout a war cry against them on every side. They will surrender. Their towers will fall and their walls will be torn down. Since this is Jehovah’s vengeance, take revenge against them. Do to them what they did to others. ¹⁶ »Do not allow anyone in Babylon to plant or harvest. Everyone will turn to his own people and flee to his own homeland because of the enemies' swords. ¹⁷ »The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria. The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. ¹⁸ »This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria. ¹⁹ »‘I will bring the people of Israel back to their pastures. They will eat on Mount Carmel and Mount Bashan. They will eat until they are full on the mountains of Ephraim and Gilead. ²⁰ »‘In those days and at that time,« says Jehovah, »people will look for Israel's crimes, but they will find none. They will look for Judah's sins, but none will be found. I will forgive the faithful few whom I have spared. ²¹ »Attack the land of Merathaim and the people who live in Pekod. Claim them for me by killing them with a sword, says Jehovah. Do everything I commanded you. ²² »The noise of battle and great destruction fills the land. ²³ »The hammer of the whole earth is broken and shattered. See how desolate Babylon is of all the nations! ²⁴ »I will set traps for you, Babylon. You will be caught, but you will not know it. You will be found and captured because you have opposed Jehovah.« ²⁵ Jehovah will open his armory and bring out the weapons of his fury, because Jehovah of Hosts has a job to do in the land of the Babylonians. ²⁶ Attack them from a distance, open their storehouses, pile up their corpses like piles of grain, claim them for me by destroying them, and do not leave anyone behind. ²⁷ Kill all their young bulls. Let them go to be slaughtered. How horrible it will be for them when their time has come, the time for them to be punished. ²⁸ Fugitives and refugees from Babylon are coming to Zion to tell about the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance for his temple. ²⁹ »Call together the archers, the soldiers with bows, against Babylon. Set up blockades around it. Do not let anyone escape. Pay the people of Babylon back for what they have done. Do to them what they did to others. They have disobeyed Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ »That is why their young men will die in the streets, and all their soldiers will be silenced that day, declares Jehovah. ³¹ »I am against you, you arrogant city, declares the Lord Jehovah of Hosts. »Your day has come, the time when I will punish you. ³² »Those prideful people will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to help them get up. I will light a fire in their cities that will burn up everything around them.« ³³ Jehovah of Hosts says: »All the people of Israel and Judah are oppressed. All their enemies have captured them. They refuse to let them go. ³⁴ »Their defender is strong. His name is Jehovah of Hosts. He will certainly take up their cause in order to bring rest to the land of Israel and unrest to the people who live in Babylon. ³⁵ »A sword will kill the Babylonians and everyone who lives in Babylon,« declares Jehovah. »A sword will kill their officials and their wise men. ³⁶ »A sword will kill the false prophets. They will become fools. A sword will kill their soldiers and defeat them. ³⁷ »A sword will kill their horses, their chariots, and all the foreigners within their ranks. They will become women. A sword will destroy their treasures, and they will be looted. ³⁸ »A drought will diminish their water supply, and it will dry up. Babylon is a land of idols, statues that will go crazy with fear. ³⁹ »That is why desert animals will live with hyenas. Desert owls will also live there. It will no longer be inhabited or lived in for generations. ⁴⁰ »Babylon will be like Sodom and Gomorrah, and their neighboring cities when I, God, destroyed them. No one will live there. No human will stay there, proclaims Jehovah. ⁴¹ »People are going to come from the north. A great nation and many kings will rise from the ends of the earth. ⁴² »They will take hold of bows and spears. They will be cruel and have no compassion. They will sound like the sea when it roars. They will ride horses. They are ready for war, ready to attack you, people of Babylon. ⁴³ »The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and he loses courage. Anguish will grip him as pain grips a woman in labor. ⁴⁴ »I will suddenly chase them from their places like a lion coming out of the jungle along the Jordan River into pastureland. I will appoint over Babylon whomever I choose. Who is like me? Who can challenge me? Is there any leader who can stand up to me?« ⁴⁵ Listen to what Jehovah is going to do against Babylon and the things he intends to do to the land of the Babylonians. He will surely drag away the little ones of the flock. He will surely destroy the pasture because of the Babylonians. ⁴⁶ The earth will quake at the news, »Babylon has been captured!« Its cry will be heard among the nations.

¹ Jehovah says: »I am bringing a destructive wind against Babylon and its people. ² »I will send foreigners to destroy Babylon like a wind that blows straw away. When that day of destruction comes, they will attack from every side and leave the land bare. ³ »Do not give its soldiers time to shoot their arrows or to put on their armor. Do not spare the young men! Destroy the whole army! ⁴ »They will be wounded and die in the streets of their cities. ⁵ I, the Lord Jehovah, have not abandoned Israel and Judah, even though they have sinned against me, the Holy One of Israel. ⁶ »Run away from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be killed because of Babylon's sin. I am now taking my revenge. I am punishing it as it deserves. ⁷ »Babylon was like a gold cup in my hand, making the whole world drunk. The nations drank its wine and went out of their minds. ⁸ »Babylon has suddenly fallen and is destroyed! Mourn over it! Get medicine for its wounds, and maybe it can be healed.« ⁹ »Foreigners living there said: ‘We tried to help Babylon, but it was too late. Let us leave now and go back home. God has punished Babylon with all his might and has destroyed it completely.’« ¹⁰ Jehovah says: »My people shout, Jehovah has shown that we are in the right. Let us go and tell the people in Jerusalem what Jehovah our God has done.« ¹¹ »Jehovah has stirred up the kings of Media, because he intends to destroy Babylon. That is how he will take revenge for the destruction of his Temple. The attacking officers command: Sharpen your arrows! Get your shields ready! ¹² »Give the signal to attack Babylon's walls. Strengthen the guard! Post the sentries! Place troops in ambush! Jehovah has done what he said he would do to the people of Babylon.« ¹³ »That country has many rivers and rich treasures. Yet its time is up, and its thread of life is cut. ¹⁴ Jehovah has sworn by his own life: »I will bring many men to attack Babylon like a swarm of locusts, and they will shout with victory.« ¹⁵ Jehovah made the earth by his power. By his wisdom he created the world and stretched out the heavens. ¹⁶ When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens. He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses. ¹⁷ All mankind is stupid and devoid of knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. His molten images are deceitful, and there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they will perish. ¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not like these. He is the maker of all and of the tribe of his inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is his name. ²⁰ He says: »You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms. ²¹ »I will use you to crush horses and their riders. I will use you to crush chariots and their drivers. ²² »I will use you to crush men and women. I will use you to crush the old and the young. I will use you to crush young men and women. ²³ »I will use you to crush shepherds and their flocks. I will use you to crush farmers and their oxen. I will use you to crush governors and officials. ²⁴ »In your presence I will pay back Babylon and all the people who live in Babylon for all the evil things that they did in Zion,« proclaims Jehovah. ²⁵ »I am against you, Babylon, you destructive mountain. You have destroyed the whole earth,« declares Jehovah. »I will use my power against you and roll you off the cliffs, and make you a scorched mountain. ²⁶ »People will not find any stones in you to use as a cornerstone. They will not find any stones in you to use for a foundation. You will become permanent ruins,« declares Jehovah. ²⁷ Raise your battle flag throughout the world. Blow the ram's horn among the nations. Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Tell the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to attack it. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Bring up horses like a swarm of locusts. ²⁸ Prepare nations to attack Babylon. Prepare the king of the Medes, their governors, all their deputies, and all the countries that they rule. ²⁹ The earth trembles and writhes in pain. Jehovah carries out his plans against Babylon to make Babylon a wasteland so that no one will live there. ³⁰ The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting. They stay in their fortified cities. Their strength has failed. They have become women. Their buildings are set on fire. The bars across their gates are broken. ³¹ Runners run to meet runners. Messengers follow messengers. They inform the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured. ³² The river crossings have been taken. The enemy has burned its marshes, and its soldiers are terrified. ³³ »I am the All-Powerful Jehovah, the God of Israel, and I make this promise: Soon Babylon will be leveled and packed down like a threshing place at harvest time. ³⁴ »The people of Jerusalem say: King Nebuchadnezzar made us panic. That monster (big snake) filled up with our treasures, leaving us empty. He gobbled down what he wanted and spit out the rest. ³⁵ »The people of Babylon harmed some of us and killed others. Now Jehovah will make them pay. ³⁶ Therefore Jehovah says: »I am going to plead your case and exact full vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry. ³⁷ »Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants. ³⁸ »They will roar together like young lions. They will growl like lions' cubs. ³⁹ »When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet and make them drunk, that they may become jubilant. Then they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up, declares Jehovah. ⁴⁰ »I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats. ⁴¹ »How Sheshak has been captured, and the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations! ⁴² »The sea has come up over Babylon. She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves. ⁴³ »Her cities have become an object of horror, a parched land and a desert, a land in which no man lives and through which no son of man passes. ⁴⁴ »I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make Bel spit out everything that it has swallowed. Nations will no longer stream to Babylon. Its walls will fall. ⁴⁵ »Get out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the burning anger of Jehovah. ⁴⁶ »Do not lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land. One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year. Rumors of violence are in the land. Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land. ⁴⁷ That is why the days are coming when I will punish Babylon's idols. The whole country will be put to shame, and all its soldiers will lie dead. ⁴⁸ »Then heaven and earth and everything in them will rejoice over Babylon. Destroyers from the north will attack it,« declares Jehovah. ⁴⁹ Because the people of Babylon have killed many Israelites and because they have killed many people throughout the earth, Babylon must fall. ⁵⁰ You people escaped from the sword. Now leave! Do not just stand there. Remember Jehovah in a distant land and think about Jerusalem. ⁵¹ We have been put to shame. We have been disgraced. Shame covers our faces, because foreigners have gone into the holy places of Jehovah’s temple. ⁵² »That is why the days are coming,« declares Jehovah, »when I will punish their idols, and those who are wounded will moan everywhere in the land. ⁵³ »The people of Babylon might go up to heaven. They might fortify their strongholds. But destroyers will still come from me against them,« declares Jehovah. ⁵⁴ Cries of agony are heard from Babylon. Sounds of terrible destruction are heard from the land of the Babylonians. ⁵⁵ Jehovah will destroy Babylon. He will silence the loud noise coming from it. Waves of enemies will come roaring in like raging water. The noise will be heard everywhere. ⁵⁶ A destroyer will attack Babylon, its soldiers will be captured, and their bows and arrows will be broken. I Jehovah am a God who punishes evil. I will certainly punish them. ⁵⁷ »I will make their officials and wise men drunk, along with their governors, officers, and soldiers. They will fall into a deep sleep and never wake up,« proclaims the king, whose name is Jehovah of Hosts. ⁵⁸ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says: The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled, and its high gates will be set on fire. People exhaust themselves for nothing. The nations wear themselves out only to have a fire. ⁵⁹ This is the message that the prophet Jeremiah gave to Seraiah, son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, when Seraiah went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah's rule. Seraiah was the quartermaster. ⁶⁰ Jeremiah wrote on a scroll all the disasters that would happen to Babylon. He wrote all these things that have been written about Babylon. ⁶¹ Jeremiah said to Seraiah: »When you come to Babylon, see that you read all this. ⁶² Then says: ‘Jehovah, you have threatened to destroy this place so that no person or animal will live here. It will become a permanent ruin.’ ⁶³ »When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River. ⁶⁴ »Say: ‘Babylon will sink like this scroll. It will never rise again because of the disasters that I will bring on it.’« The words of Jeremiah end here.

¹⁰ »Tell them: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘This is the divine revelation about the prince from Jerusalem and about all the people of Israel who live there.’«

⁶ Then the king's countenance (appearance) changed in him. His thoughts troubled him. The joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

²⁸ »PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.«

¹ The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

¹ This is the message Jehovah revealed to Habakkuk the prophet:

¹ The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach: »Damascus will be its resting-place. The eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah.

¹ The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Jehovah declared: »Who stretches forth the heavens? Who lays the foundation of the earth? Who forms the spirit of man within him?

¹ This is Jehovah’s (YHWH) Word, a divine revelation to Israel through His Messenger, Malachi:

¹ One of the seven angels who had one of the seven bowls spoke to me. He said: »Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, ² »with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.« ³ So he carried me away in spirit to the wilderness. I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast. The beast was full of names of blasphemy. It had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet. She was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She had a golden cup in her hand. It was full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ A name was written on her forehead, a mystery, »Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.« ⁶ I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the holy ones, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I wondered greatly. ⁷ The angel said: »Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns. ⁸ »The beast that you saw was, and is not. It will ascend out of the pit and go into destruction. They who dwell on the earth will wonder, those whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. ⁹ »Here is where the mind that has wisdom comes in. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. ¹⁰ »There are seven kings: five have fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet come. When he comes he must remain a short while. ¹¹ »The beast that was, and is not, he is the eighth king, and is from the seven, and goes into destruction. ¹² »The ten horns that you saw are ten kings. They have not yet received a kingdom. But they receive power (authority) (influence) as kings for one hour with the beast. ¹³ »They are united in one purpose (single-minded), and they will give their power and authority to the beast. ¹⁴ »They will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome (conquer) them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. Those who are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.« ¹⁵ He says to me: »The waters that you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, and crowds, and nations, and languages. ¹⁶ »The ten horns that you saw on the beast will hate the harlot, and will make her desolate and naked. They will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. ¹⁷ »For God put in their hearts the desire to carry out his purpose, and to agree, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. ¹⁸ »The woman you saw is that great city that reigns over the kings of the earth.«