Isaiah 13:1 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ The oracle on Babylon,––of which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had vision:––

¹ The vision of Isaiah, son of Amoz, which he saw, concerning Judah and Jerusalem,––in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah,––kings of Judah.

¹⁹ Thus shall Babylon––The most lovely of kingdoms, The majestic beauty of the Chaldees––Become, as in the divine overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.

⁴ that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say:––How, hath ceased, the oppressor! Ceased, the exactress! ⁵ Broke, hath Yahweh the staff of the lawless,––The sceptre of despots; ⁶ Smiting peoples in passion, With stroke unremitting,––Trampling, in anger, on nations, Persecution unhindered. ⁷ Quiet, at rest, the whole earth,––Men have burst into shouting! ⁸ Yea the pine–trees, make mirth at thee, Cedars of Lebanon, Since thou wast laid low, No feller hath come up against us! ⁹ Hades, beneath, is excited about thee, To meet thine arrival,––Rousing up, for thee, Shades, All the he–goats of earth! Maketh rise from their thrones, All the kings of the nations. ¹⁰ All of them, answer, and say to thee,––Thou too, made strengthless, as we! Unto us, art thou like! ¹¹ Brought down to Hades, thy pride, The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet––worms! ¹² How, hast thou fallen from heaven, O Shining One––Son of the Dawn! Hewn down to the earth, O crusher of nations! ¹³ Yet, thou, didst say in thy heart––The heavens, will I ascend, Above the stars of GOD, will I lift up my throne,––That I may sit in the Mount of Assembly, In the Recesses of the North: ¹⁴ I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match the Most High! ¹⁵ Howbeit, to Hades, shalt thou be brought down,––To the Recesses of the Pit! ¹⁶ They who see thee, upon thee, will gaze, Upon thee, will thoughtfully muse,––Is this, the man who startled the earth? Who terrified kingdoms? ¹⁷ Who made the world like a desert? And, its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not, Each one to his home? ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations––they all, are lying in state, Each one in his crypt; ¹⁹ But, thou, art flung out from thy grave, Like a scion detested, Beshrouded with slain, the pierced of the sword, Like a carcase trod underfoot: ²⁰ As for them who go down to the stones of the Pit, Thou shalt not be united with them in burial; For, thy land, thou didst ruin, Thy people, didst slay,––Unnamed to times ago–abiding, Be the seed of the wicked! ²¹ Prepare––for his sons––shambles, For the iniquity of their fathers,––They shall not rise, nor possess the earth, Nor fill the face of the world with cities. ²² I will rise, Then, against them, Declareth Yahweh of hosts,––And will cut off from Babylon, Record and remnant, And scion and seed, Declareth Yahweh. ²³ And will make her a possession for the bittern, And marshes of water,––And will sweep it with the besom of destruction, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

²⁸ In the year that King Ahaz died, came this oracle:––

¹ The oracle on Moab: Because, in a night, was laid waste Ar of Moab––destroyed! Because, in a night, was laid waste Kir of Moab––destroyed,

¹ The oracle on Damascus,––Lo! Damascus, is to be removed from being a city, And shall become a heap of ruins:

¹ The oracle on Egypt: Lo! Yahweh, riding upon a swift cloud, and he will enter Egypt, And the idols of Egypt, shall shake, at his presence, And, the heart of Egypt, shall melt within him;

¹ The oracle on the desert of the sea: As storm–winds in the South which, with a rush from the desert, do come from a terrible land, ² [So] hath, a grievous vision, been told me:––The deceiver, is deceiving, And, the spoiler, is spoiling, Go up, O Elam, Besiege, O Media, All the sighing she hath caused, have I made to cease. ³ For this cause, are my loins filled, with anguish, Pangs, have seized me, as the pangs of her that is giving birth,––I writhe, so that I cannot hear, I tremble, so that I cannot see: ⁴ My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,––My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling. ⁵ [Ye thought] to prepare the table––spread the mat––eat––drink! . . . Arise, ye chieftains, anoint the shield! ⁶ For, thus, hath My Lord said, unto me,––Go, set the watchman, What he seeth, let him tell! ⁷ When he seeth, A train of horsemen in double rank, A train of asses, A train of camels, Then shall he hearken attentively, with diligent heed. ⁸ Then cried he, A lion! On the watch, O My Lord, had I, been standing continually, by day, And, at my post, had I, been stationed whole nights; –– ⁹ When lo! here was a train of men coming, With horsemen in double rank,––And one began and said, Fallen! fallen! is Babylon, And, all the images of her gods, are smashed to the ground! ¹⁰ O thou My threshing! And the grain of my corn–floor! That which I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Have I declared, unto you.
¹¹ The oracle on Dumah: Unto me, is one crying––out of Seir, Watchman! how far gone is the night? Watchman! how far gone is the night?

¹³ The oracle on Arabia,––Among the shrubs in Arabia, must ye lodge, Ye caravans of Dedanites.

¹ The oracle on the valley of vision,––What aileth thee, then, That thou art wholly gone up to the house–tops?

²⁵ In that day,––Declareth Yahweh of hosts, Shall the peg, give way, that was fastened in a sure place,––Yea it shall be cut off and fall, And the burden that was upon it shall perish, For, Yahweh, hath spoken!

¹⁴ Thus, saith Yahweh, Your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel,––For your sakes, have I sent into Babylon, And will bring down, as fugitives, all of them,––Even the Chaldeans, in the ships which cause them loud outcry.

¹ Now, then––hear, O Jacob my Servant,––and, Israel, whom I have chosen: ² Thus, saith Yahweh––Who made thee and formed thee from birth, Who helpeth thee: Do not fear, O my Servant Jacob, and Jeshurun, whom I have chosen;

¹ Down––and sit in the dust, O virgin, Daughter of Babylon, Sit on the ground––throneless, Daughter of the Chaldeans; For thou shalt no more be called, Tender and Dainty. ² Take millstones, and grind meal,––Put back thy veil––tuck up thy train, Bare the leg, wade through streams: ³ Bared, shall be thy shame, Yea, seen, thy reproach,––An avenging, will I take, And will accept no son of earth. ⁴ Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts, is his name! The Holy One of Israel. ⁵ Sit silent, and get into darkness, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For thou shalt no more be called Mistress of Kingdoms. ⁶ I had been provoked with my people, Had profaned mine inheritance, And given them into thy hand, . . . Thou shewedst them no compassion, Upon the elder, madest thou very heavy, thy yoke.
⁷ And thou saidst, Unto times age–abiding, shall I be Mistress,––Insomuch, that thou laidst not these things to thy heart, Didst not keep in mind the issue thereof. ⁸ Now, therefore, hear this, Thou Lady of pleasure, Who dwelleth securely, Who saith in her heart,––I, [am,] and there is no one besides, I shall not sit a widow, Nor know loss of children. ⁹ Yet shall there come to thee––both these, in a moment, in one day, Loss of children and widowhood,––To their full, have they come on thee, Spite of the mass of thine incantations, Spite of the great throng of thy spells. ¹⁰ And so thou didst trust in thy wickedness, Thou saidst, no one, seeth me, Thy wisdom and knowledge, the same, seduced thee,––Therefore saidst thou in thy heart, I, [am,] and there is no one besides. ¹¹ Therefore shall come on thee––Mischief, Thou shalt not know how to charm it away, Yea there shall fall on thee, Ruin, Thou shalt not be able to appease it,––And there shall come on thee, suddenly, Desolation, Thou shalt not know. ¹² Take thy stand, I pray thee, With thy spells, And with the throng of thine incantations, wherein thou hast wearied thyself from thy youth,––Peradventure, thou mayest be able to profit, Peradventure, thou mayest strike me with terror. ¹³ Thou hast worn thyself out with the mass of thy consultations,––Let them take their stand, I pray thee, that they may save thee––The dividers of the heavens––The gazers at the stars, They who make known by new moons, Somewhat of the things which shall come upon thee. ¹⁴ Lo! they have become as straw––a fire, hath burned them up, They shall not deliver their own soul from the grasp of the flame,––There is, no live coal to warm them, nor blaze to sit before. ¹⁵ Such, have they become to thee, with whom thou hast wearied thyself,––Thy merchants––from thy youth, will, every man, stagger, straight onwards––There is none to save thee.

³³ But, when this people, or a prophet or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the oracle of Yahweh? Then shalt thou say unto them, Ye yourselves, are the oracle, Therefore will I reject you, Declareth Yahweh; ³⁴ But, the prophet, or the priest, or the people, who shall say––the oracle of Yahweh, I will bring punishment upon that man, and upon his house. ³⁵ Thus, shall ye say––every man unto his neighbour, and every man unto his brother,––What, hath Yahweh, answered? or, What, hath Yahweh, spoken? ³⁶ but, the oracle of Yahweh, shall ye not mention, any more,––for, every man’s oracle, shall be his own word, because ye have perverted the words of a Living, God, Yahweh of hosts, our God. ³⁷ Thus, shalt thou say unto the prophet,––What, hath Yahweh, answered thee? or, What, hath Yahweh, spoken? ³⁸ But, since ye keep on saying, The Oracle of Yahweh, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Because ye have said this word, The oracle of Yahweh, whereas I had sent unto you saying, Ye shall not say, The oracle of Yahweh,

¹² And it shall some to pass––When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans,––and I will turn it into age–abiding desolations. ¹³ So will I bring upon that land, All my words which I have spoken against it,––Even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. ¹⁴ For many nations, and great kings, have used, even them, as slaves, So will I recompense to them––According to their deed, and, According to the work of their own hands.
¹⁵ For, thus, said Yahweh, God of Israel, unto me, Take this cup of indignation, wine, out of my hand,––and cause all the nations unto whom I, am sending thee, to drink it: ¹⁶ Yea they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and act as madmen, because of the sword which I, am sending between them. ¹⁷ So I took the cup out of the hand of Yahweh,––and caused all the nations, unto whom Yahweh had sent me, to drink: ¹⁸ [to wit, said he]––Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and her kings, her princes,––making them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a contempt, as at this day; ¹⁹ Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; ²⁰ And all the Bedawin, and all the kings of the land of Uz,––and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, even Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; ²¹ Edom and Moab, and the sons of Ammon; ²² And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon,––and the kings of the Coastland, that is beyond the sea; ²³ Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all the clipt–beards; ²⁴ And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the Bedawin who dwell in the desert; ²⁵ And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; ²⁶ And all the kings of the North, the near and the far, every man with his brother, and all the kingdoms of the earth, which are on the face of the ground; And, the king of Sheshach, shall drink, after them.

¹ The word which Yahweh spake, Against Babylon, Against the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet: ² Tell ye among the nations, And let it be heard, And lift ye up a standard, Let it be heard, do not conceal: Say ye––Captured, is Babylon, Confounded, is Bel, Broken in pieces, is Merodach, Confounded, are her images, Broken down, her manufactured gods; ³ For there hath come up against her––a nation out of the North, The same, shall make her land an astonishment, And there shall be none to dwell therein,––Both man and beast, have removed––have gone! ⁴ In those days, and at that time, Declareth Yahweh, Shall the sons of Israel come in, They, and the sons of Judah, together: Weeping as they travel, so shall they journey on, And, Yahweh their God, shall they seek; ⁵ To Zion, shall they ask the way, Hitherward, their faces, Come and let us join ourselves unto Yahweh, In a covenant age–abiding, which shall not be forgotten. ⁶ Wandering sheep, have, my people, been, Their own shepherds, led them astray, On the mountains, they seduced them, From mountain to hill, have they gone, They have forgotten their couching–place. ⁷ All who found them, devoured them, And, their adversaries, said––We shall not be guilty,––Because they have sinned, Against, Yahweh, the pasturage of righteousness, Yea, the hope of their fathers––Yahweh. ⁸ Remove ye out of the midst of Babylon, And, out of the land of the Chaldeans, come ye forth,––And become ye like he–goats before the flock;
⁹ For lo! I, am rousing and bringing up against Babylon, a gathered host of great nations, out of the land of the North, And they shall array themselves against her, From thence, shall she be captured,––His arrows, are as of a hero making childless, None shall return, empty. ¹⁰ So shall the Chaldeans become a spoil,––All her spoilers, shall be satisfied, Declareth Yahweh; ¹¹ Because they used to be glad, Because they used to be uproarious, When plundering mine inheritance,––Because they used to caper about as a heifer at grass, And bellow like bulls. ¹² Your mother, hath turned very pale, She that bare you, hath turned red,––Lo! the last of nations, is––A desert, A parched land, and, A waste plain. ¹³ Because of the vexation of Yahweh, she shall not be inhabited, But shall become a complete, desolation,––Every one passing by Babylon, shall be astonished and hiss, over all her plagues. ¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All ye who tread the bow, Shoot at her, do not spare so much as an arrow,––For, against Yahweh, hath she sinned. ¹⁵ Raise a shout against her round about, She hath stretched forth her hand, Fallen, are her buttresses, Torn down, are her walls,––Because, the avenging of Yahweh, it is, Take ye vengeance upon her, As she hath done, do ye, unto her. ¹⁶ Cut ye off the sower from Babylon, And him that graspeth the sickle, in the time of harvest. From the face of the sword of the oppressor, Each, to his own people, will they turn, and, Each, to his own land, will they flee. ¹⁷ A sheep all alone, is Israel, Lions, have driven him away,––At the first, the king of Assyria, devoured him, And, here, at the last, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, hath broken his bones! ¹⁸ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! bringing punishment against the king of Babylon, and against his land,––Just as I brought punishment against the king of Assyria. ¹⁹ So will I bring back Israel unto his own pasture, And he shall feed upon Carmel and Bashan; And, in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead, shall, his soul, be satisfied. ²⁰ In those days, and in that time, Declareth Yahweh, The iniquity of Israel, shall be sought, and, there shall be, none, And the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; For I will grant pardon to them whom I suffer to remain.
²¹ Against the land of Merathaim, go thou up against her, And against the inhabitants of Pekod,––Lay waste and devote to destruction after them, Declareth Yahweh, And do according to all which I have commanded thee. ²² The, sound of battle, is in the earth,––And a great destruction. ²³ How, is cut and broken, the hammer of all the earth! How hath, Babylon, become an astonishment, among the nations! ²⁴ I laid a snare for thee, yea, and thou wast captured, O Babylon, when, thou, wast not aware,––Thou wast found out, yea and taken, For, with Yahweh, hadst thou contended. ²⁵ Yahweh opened, his armoury, and brought out his weapons of indignation,––For, a work, it is, pertaining to My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ Come ye against her from farthest parts, Throw open her granaries, Cast her up as heaps, and devote her to destruction,––Do not let her have, a remnant. ²⁷ Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter,––Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment. ²⁸ The voice, Of them who are in flight, and, Of such as are escaping, out of the land of Babylon,––To tell in Zion, The avenging of Yahweh our God, The avenging of his temple. ²⁹ Publish against Babylon, ye chiefs of all who tread the bow––Encamp against her round about, Let there be none to escape, Recompense to her according to her work, According to all which she did, do ye to her,––For, Against Yahweh, hath she acted presumptuously, Against the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ Therefore, shall her young men fall in her broadways,––And, all her men of war, be silenced in that day, Declareth Yahweh. ³¹ Behold me! against thee, most insolent one, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts; For thy day, hath come, Thy time for punishment; ³² So shall the most insolent one stumble, and fall, And he shall have none, to lift him up,––And I will kindle a fire in his cities, which shall devour all who are round about him.
³³ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––Oppressed, were the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, together,––And, all who took them captive, Held them fast, Refused to let them go:–– ³⁴ Their Redeemer, can hold fast, Yahweh of hosts, is his name, He will, thoroughly plead, their plea,––That he may quiet the earth, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. ³⁵ A sword, is over the Chaldeans, Declareth Yahweh,––And against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against her princes, And against her wise men: ³⁶ A sword, is against the praters, And they shall be shewn to be foolish, A sword, is against her heroes, And they shall be dismayed: ³⁷ A sword, is against his horses and against his chariots, and against all the rabble that are in her midst, And they shall become women,––A sword, is against her treasures, And they shall be made a prey: ³⁸ A drought, is against her waters, And they shall be dried up,––For, a land of images, it is, And, with their shocking things, they act as men who are mad: ³⁹ Therefore, shall the criers, dwell with, the howlers, Yea ostriches, shall dwell therein,––So shall it be dwelt in no more for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited, unto generation after generation. ⁴⁰ Like the divine overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighbours, Declareth Yahweh,––There shall not dwell there––a man, Nor sojourn therein––a son of the earth–born. ⁴¹ Lo! a people coming in from the North,––Yea, a great nation, and many kings, shall be roused up out of the remote parts of the earth: ⁴² Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, are they, and will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And, on horses, will they ride,––Set in array, as one man, for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Babylon! ⁴³ The king of Babylon hath heard, the report of them, And unnerved, are his hands,––Anguish, hath seized him, Writhing pain, as a woman in child–birth. ⁴⁴ Lo! as a lion, shall he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, Unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink––I will make them run away therefrom, Who, then shall be the Chosen One whom, against it, I may set in charge? For who, shall be like unto, me? And who, shall appoint, me, a, time? And who, is, the Shepherd that shall stand before, me? ⁴⁵ Therefore, hear ye, The counsel of Yahweh, which he hath counselled against Babylon, And his devices which he hath devised against the land of the Chaldeans,––Surely the little ones of the flock, shall drag them away, Surely he will cause the pasture to be astounded over them. ⁴⁶ At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth, trembled,––And, the outcry, among the nations, was heard.

¹ Thus, saith Yahweh––Behold me! stirring up against Babylon, And against the inhabitants of the centre of them who rise up against me,––A wind that destroyeth; ² And I will send to Babylon winnowers, And they shall winnow her, And shall empty her land,––For they are against her round about, in the day of calamity. ³ Let not the archer tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail,––And do not spare her young men, Devote to destruction all her host. ⁴ So shall they fall wounded, in the land of Chaldea,––Yea thrust through, in her streets, ⁵ For Israel and Judah have not been widowed, Of their God, Of Yahweh of hosts,––But, their land, hath been filled with punishment for guilt, from the Holy One of Israel. ⁶ Flee out of the midst of Babylon, And deliver ye every man his own life, Be not cut off in her punishment,––For it is Yahweh’s, time of avenging, A recompense, is he, repaying unto her. ⁷ A cup of gold, was Babylon, in the hand of Yahweh, Making drunk all the earth,––Of her wine, have the nations drunk, For this cause, have the nations been acting as men who are mad. ⁸ Suddenly, hath Babylon fallen, and been broken,––Howl ye over her, Fetch balsam for her pain, Peradventure, she shall be healed! ⁹ We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed, Leave her, and let us go every one to his own land,––For her judgment, reacheth unto the heavens, And mounteth as far as the skies. ¹⁰ Yahweh hath brought forth our righteousnesses,––Come and let us relate in Zion, the work of Yahweh our God. ¹¹ Polish the arrows, Lay hold of the shields,––Yahweh hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, For, against Babylon, his purpose is, to destroy her,––For it is, The avenging of Yahweh, The avenging of his temple. ¹² Against the walls of Babylon, Lift ye up a standard, Strengthen ye the watch, Station the watchmen, Make ready the ambuscades,––For Yahweh hath both planned, and also performed, that which he had spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon. ¹³ O thou who dwellest upon many waters, Who aboundest in treasures,––Come, hath thine end! The measure of thine unrighteous gain! ¹⁴ Yahweh of hosts, hath sworn, by his own soul: Surely I have filled thee with men, as with locusts, And they have answered against thee, with a shout. ¹⁵ He that, Made the earth in his might, Established the world in his wisdom,––And, in his understanding, stretched out the heavens, ¹⁶ By the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the end of the earth,––Lightnings for the rain, made he, And brought forth wind out of his treasures. ¹⁷ Every son of earth had become too brutish to know,––Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame, by a graven image,––For, a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them: ¹⁸ Vanity, they are, A handiwork of mockeries,––In the time of their visitation, shall they perish. ¹⁹ Not like these, is the portion of Jacob, For, the fashioner of all things, is he! And the portion of his inheritance,––Yahweh of hosts, is his name. ²⁰ A war–club, art thou, for me, Weapons of war; Therefore will I, Beat down with thee––nations, and, Destroy with thee––kingdoms; ²¹ and, Beat down with thee––the horse and his rider,––and, Beat down with thee––the chariot and its rider; ²² and, Beat down with thee––man and woman, and, Beat down with thee––elder and youth, and, Beat down with thee––young man and virgin; ²³ and, Beat down with thee––the shepherd and his flock, and, Beat down with thee––the plowman and his yoke; ––and, Beat down with thee––governors and deputies: ²⁴ So will I recompense to Babylon, And to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, All their wickedness which they have committed against Zion, before your eyes,––Declareth Yahweh. ²⁵ Behold me! against thee, O destroying mountain, Declareth Yahweh, That destroyest all the earth,––Therefore will I stretch out my hand over thee, And roll thee down from the crags, And make of thee a burning, mountain: ²⁶ So shall they not fetch from thee, A stone for a corner, nor, A stone for a foundation,––For, desolations age–abiding, shalt thou become, Declareth Yahweh. ²⁷ Set ye up an ensign in the earth, Blow ye a horn among the nations, Hallow against her––nations, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz,––Set in charge against her a marshal, Bring up cavalry like hairy locusts: ²⁸ Hallow against her––nations, With the kings of Media, With her governors and all her deputies,––And with all the land of his dominion: ²⁹ Then did the land tremble, and was in pain,––For the plans of Yahweh, had been established against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon an astonishment, without inhabitant. ³⁰ The heroes of Babylon have ceased, to fight, They have remained in the strongholds, Parched, is their might, They have become women,––They have set fire to her habitations, Broken, are her bars! ³¹ Runner to meet runner, shall they run, And teller to meet teller,––To tell the king of Babylon, That captured, is his city at the end! ³² and, The fords, have been seized, and, The reeds, have they burned with fire; and, The men of war, are dismayed! ³³ For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon, is like a threshing–floor, at the time of treading her: Yet a little, and the time of harvest shall overtake her. ³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon––Hath devoured me, Hath vexed me, Hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me like a sea–monster, He hath filled his belly with my dainties,––He hath driven me away! ³⁵ The violence done to me and to my flesh, be upon Babylon! Shall the inhabitress of Zion say,––Yea, my blood, be upon the inhabitant of Chaldea! Shall Jerusalem say. ³⁶ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! pleading thy cause, So then I will execute the avenging of thee; And will dry up her sea, And make dry her spring: ³⁷ Thus shall Babylon become–Heaps, A habitation of jackals, An astonishment, and, A hissing, Without inhabitant. ³⁸ Together, like wild lions, shall they roar,––They have growled like lions’ whelps. ³⁹ When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age–abiding sleep and not wake,––Declareth Yahweh. ⁴⁰ I will bring them down, As fat lambs to slaughter,––As rams, with he–goats. ⁴¹ How, hath Sheshach, been captured! How, hath the praise of all the earth, been seized! How, hath Babylon, become an astonishment among the nations! ⁴² The sea, hath gone up over Babylon,––With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered. ⁴³ Her cities, have become, an astonishment, A land parched up, and a waste plain,––A land wherein shall no man dwell, Nor, pass through them, a son of the earth–born! ⁴⁴ So will I bring punishment upon Bel in Babylon, And will bring forth what he hath swallowed, out of his mouth, And the nations, shall stream unto him no more,––Even the wall of Babylon, hath fallen! ⁴⁵ Come ye forth out of her midst, O my people, And deliver ye every man his own life,––Because of the glow of the anger of Yahweh. ⁴⁶ And let not your heart be timid, nor be ye afraid, Because of the report that is reported in the earth, When there shall come, in one year, the report, And, after that, in another year, the report, With violence in the earth, and ruler upon ruler. ⁴⁷ Therefore, lo! days coming, when I will bring punishment upon the images of Babylon, And, all her land, shall turn pale,––Yea, all her wounded, shall fall in her midst. ⁴⁸ Then shall shout over Babylon––heavens and earth, and all who are therein,––For, out of the North, shall come to her the spoilers, Declareth Yahweh. ⁴⁹ Not only, hath, Babylon, caused the fall of the slain of Israel,––By Babylon, also, have fallen the slain of, all the earth. ⁵⁰ Ye that have escaped the sword, depart, do not stand still,––Remember, from afar, Yahweh, Let, Jerusalem, come up on your heart:–– 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.

¹⁰ Say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––[For] the Bearer, is this burden, in Jerusalem, and [for] all the house of Israel, such as are in their midst.

⁶ Then, as for the king, his bright looks, changed in him, and, his thoughts, terrified him,––and, the joints of his loins, were loosed, and, his knees, smote, one against another.

²⁸ P’res[=" Snatched–away"], ––snatched away is thy kingdom, and given to the Medes and Persians.

¹ The oracle, on Nineveh,––the scroll of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite.

¹ The oracle of which Habakkuk the prophet, had vision:

¹ The oracle of the word of Yahweh on the land of Hadrach, and, Damascus, shall be the resting–place thereof,––For, Yahweh, hath an eye––to mankind, and to all the tribes of Israel;

¹ The oracle of the word of Yahweh, on Israel,––Declareth Yahweh––Stretching out the heavens, and founding the earth, and fashioning the spirit of man within him:

¹ The oracle of the word of Yahweh, unto Israel,––by the hand of Malachi.

¹ And one of the seven messengers who had the seven bowls came, and spake with me, saying––Hither! I will point out to thee the judgment of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth committed lewdness,––and they who were dwelling upon the earth were made drunk with the wine of her lewdness. ³ And he carried me away into a desert, in spirit. And I saw a woman, sitting upon a scarlet wild–beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And, the woman, was arrayed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls,––having a cup of gold in her hand, full of abominations and the impurities of her lewdness; ⁵ and, upon her forehead, a name written, a secret: Babylon the great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I was astonished, when I beheld her, with great astonishment.
⁷ And the messenger said unto me––Wherefore wast thou astonished? I, will tell thee the secret of the woman, and of the wild–beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns. ⁸ The wild–beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss, and into, destruction, goeth away. And they who are dwelling upon the earth whose name is not written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished, when they see the wild–beast, because it was, and is not, and shall be present. ⁹ Here, is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads, are, seven mountains, whereupon the woman sitteth; ¹⁰ and they are, seven kings: the five, have fallen, the one, is, the other, hath not yet come; and, whensoever he shall come, a little while, must he remain, ¹¹ and the wild–beast which was and is not. And he, is an eighth, and is, of the seven,––and, into destruction, goeth away. ¹² And, the ten horns which thou sawest, are, ten kings,––who, indeed, have not received, sovereignty, as yet, but, authority, as kings, for one hour, shall receive, with the wild–beast. ¹³ These, have, one mind, and, their power and authority, unto the wild–beast, they give.
¹⁴ These, with the Lamb, will make war; and, the Lamb, will overcome them, because he is, Lord of lords, and King of kings,––and, they who are with him, are called and chosen and faithful. ¹⁵ And he saith unto me––The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are, peoples and multitudes, and nations and tongues. ¹⁶ And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the wild–beast, these, shall hate the harlot, and, desolate, shall make her, and naked, and, her flesh, shall they eat, and, herself, shall they burn up with fire. ¹⁷ For, God, hath put into their hearts, to do his mind, and to do one mind,––and to give their sovereignty unto the wild–beast, until the words of God shall be completed. ¹⁸ And, the woman whom thou sawest, is the great city, which hath sovereignty over the kings of the earth.