They shall roar together like lions.
They shall yell as lions whelps.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they
may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
How is Shishak taken?
And how is the praise of the whole earth surprised?
How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
The sea is come up upon Babylon.
She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man
dwelleth.
Neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth
that which he hath swallowed up.
And the nations shall not flow together any more unto him.
Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
My people, my people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his
soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the
land, a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come
a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Therefore behold the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven
images of Babylon, and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her.
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for
Babylon, for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the
slain of all the earth.
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still.
Remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach.
Shame hath covered our faces, for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of
the Lord's house.
Wherefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment
upon her graven images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height
of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans, because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the
great voice.
When her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered,
because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are
taken, every one of their bows is broken.
For the Lord God of recompenses shall surely requite, and I will make drunk her
princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men,
and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name
is the Lord of hosts.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken,
and her high gates shall be burned with fire, and the people shall labour in vain,
and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Saraiah, the son of Nariah,
the son of Maaseah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon,
in the fourth year of his reign.
And this Saraiah was a quiet prince.
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon,
even all these words that are written against Babylon.
And Jeremiah said to Saraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see,
and shalt read all these words, then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast
spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man
nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt
bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates.
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil
that I will bring upon her, and they shall be weary.
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.