Jeremiah 25:14 Cross References - Rotherham

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.

⁸ O ruined daughter of Babylon,––how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!

² And peoples, shall take them, and bring them into their own place, And the house of Israel shall possess themselves of them, upon the soil of Yahweh, for servants and for handmaids,––Thus shall they be taking captive their captors, And shall tread down their oppressors.

¹ Thus, saith Yahweh, to his Anointed, to Cyrus––Whose right hand I have firmly grasped, To subdue, before him, nations, And, the loins of kings, will I ungird,––To open, before him, the two–leaved doors, And, the gates, shall not be shut: ² I, before thee, will go, And, the hills, will I level––The doors of bronze, will I break in pieces, And, the bars of iron, will I cut asunder; ³ Then will I give thee, The treasures of darkness, Even the hoards of hidden places,––That thou mayest get to know, That, I––Yahweh, who am calling thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

⁶ The sound of a tumult––out of the city, A sound, out of the temple,––The sound of Yahweh, rendering recompense to his foes.

⁷ Therefore shall all the nations, serve him, and his son, and his son’s son,––until the time even of his own land, itself, arrive, when many nations and great kings, shall use him as a slave.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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:

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!

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

⁸ Because, thou, hast plundered many nations, all the residue of the peoples, shall plunder thee,––for shedding Human blood, and doing violence to the earth, to the city, and to all who dwell therein. ⁹ Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house,––that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity. ¹⁰ Thou hast counseled shame to thy house––making an end of many peoples, and endangering thine own life. ¹¹ Surely, the stone out of the wall, will make outcry,––and, the tie out of the timber, will answer it. ¹² Alas! for him who buildeth a city with deeds of blood,––and establisheth a town with perversity. ¹³ Lo! is it not from Yahweh of hosts––that peoples labour for fire, and, populations, for emptiness, weary themselves? ¹⁴ For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh,––as, the waters, cover the sea.
¹⁵ Alas! for him who causeth his neighbour to drink, from the goblet of thy fury, and also, making him drunk,––to the end thou mayest gloat over their parts of shame. ¹⁶ Thou art sated with contempt, more than glory, drink, thou too, and expose thy person,––the cup of the right hand of Yahweh, shall come round unto thee, and ignominious filth be upon thy glory;

²⁰ Be glad over her, thou heaven! And ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets! For that God hath exacted your vindication from her. ²¹ And one mighty messenger lifted a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying––Thus, with main force, shall be cast down, Babylon the great city,––and in nowise be found any more; ²² And sound of harp–singers, and musicians, and flute–players, and trumpeters,––in nowise be heard in thee any more; and any artisan [of any art], ––in nowise be found in thee any more; and sound of millstone,––in nowise be found in thee any more; ²³ And light of lamp,––in nowise shine in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and bride,––in nowise be heard in thee any more; because, thy merchants, were the great ones of the earth, because, with thy sorcery, were all the nations deceived: ²⁴ And, in her, blood of prophets and saints, was found,––and of all who had been slain upon the earth.