Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 51

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Chapter 51 of Jeremiah—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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1. ¶ Thus says the LORD:
   ¶ “Behold, I am going to arouse against Babylon
   And against the inhabitants of ^[a]Leb-kamai
   ^[b]The ¹spirit of a destroyer.
2. “I will dispatch ^[c]foreigners to Babylon that they may ²winnow her
   And may devastate her land;
   For on every side they will be opposed to her
   In the day of her calamity.
3. “^[d]Let not ^[e]him who ^[f]3bends his bow ^[g]bend it,
   ^[h]Nor let him rise up in his ⁴scale-armor;
   So do not spare her young men;
   Devote all her army to destruction.
4. “They will fall down ^[i]slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
   And ⁵pierced through in their streets.”
5. ¶ For ⁶neither Israel nor Judah has been ^[j]forsaken
   By his God, the LORD of hosts,
   Although their land is ⁷full of guilt
   ^[k]Before the Holy One of Israel.
6. ⁸Flee from the midst of Babylon,
   And each of you save his life!
   Do not be ^[l]9destroyed in her ^[m]punishment,
   For this is the ¹⁰LORD’S time of vengeance;
   He is going to ¹¹render recompense to her.
7. Babylon has been a golden ¹²cup in the hand of the LORD,
   Intoxicating all the earth.
   The ¹³nations have drunk of her wine;
   Therefore the nations are ¹⁴going mad.
8. Suddenly ¹⁵Babylon has fallen and been broken;
   ¹⁶Wail over her!
   ¹⁷Bring ^[n]balm for her pain;
   Perhaps she may be healed.
9. We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed;
   Forsake her and ¹⁸let us each go to his own country,
   For her judgment has ¹⁹reached to heaven
   And ^[o]towers up to the very skies.
10. The LORD has ²⁰brought ^[p]about our vindication;
    Come and let us ²¹recount in Zion
    The work of the LORD our God!
11. ¶ ²²Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!
    The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes,
    Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;
    For it is the ²³vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.
12. ²⁴Lift up a ^[q]signal against the walls of Babylon;
    Post a strong guard,
    Station ^[r]sentries,
    Place men in ambush!
    For the LORD has both ²⁵purposed and performed
    What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
13. O you who ²⁶dwell by many waters,
    Abundant in ²⁷treasures,
    Your end has come,
    The ^[s]measure of your ^[t]28end.
14. The ²⁹LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself:
    “Surely I will fill you with a ^[u]population like ³⁰locusts,
    And they will cry out with ^[v]shouts of victory over you.”
15. ¶ It is ³¹He who made the earth by His power,
    Who established the world by His wisdom,
    And by His understanding He ³²stretched out the heavens.
16. When He utters His ³³voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
    And He causes the ³⁴clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;
    He makes lightning for the rain
    And brings forth the ³⁵wind from His storehouses.
17. ³⁶All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
    Every goldsmith is put to shame by his ^[w]idols,
    For his molten images are ³⁷deceitful,
    And there is no breath in them.
18. They are ³⁸worthless, a work of mockery;
    In the time of their punishment they will perish.
19. The ³⁹portion of Jacob is not like these;
    For the ^[x]Maker of all is He,
    And of the ^[y]tribe of His inheritance;
    The ⁴⁰LORD of hosts is His name.
20. He says, “You are My ^[z]41war-club, My weapon of war;
    And with you I ⁴²shatter nations,
    And with you I destroy kingdoms.
21. “With you I ⁴³shatter the horse and his rider,
    And with you I shatter the ⁴⁴chariot and its rider,
22. And with you I shatter ⁴⁵man and woman,
    And with you I shatter old man and ⁴⁶youth,
    And with you I shatter young man and virgin,
23. And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,
    And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,
    And with you I shatter governors and prefects.
24. ¶ “But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of ⁴⁷Chaldea for ⁴⁸all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes,” declares the LORD.
25. ¶ “Behold, ⁴⁹I am against you, ⁵⁰O destroying mountain,
    Who destroys the whole earth,” declares the LORD,
    “And I will stretch out My hand against you,
    And roll you down from the crags,
    And I will make you a ⁵¹burnt out mountain.
26. “They will not take from you even a stone for a corner
    Nor a stone for foundations,
    But you will be ⁵²desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
27. ¶ ⁵³Lift up a ^[aa]signal in the land,
    Blow a trumpet among the nations!
    Consecrate the nations against her,
    Summon against her the ⁵⁴kingdoms of ⁵⁵Ararat, Minni and ⁵⁶Ashkenaz;
    Appoint a marshal against her,
    Bring up the ⁵⁷horses like bristly locusts.
28. Consecrate the nations against her,
    The kings of the Medes,
    ^[ab]Their governors and all ^[ac]their ^[ad]prefects,
    And every land of ^[ae]their dominion.
29. So the ⁵⁸land quakes and writhes,
    For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,
    To make the land of Babylon
    ^[af]A ⁵⁹desolation without inhabitants.
30. The ⁶⁰mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
    They stay in the strongholds;
    ⁶¹Their strength is ^[ag]exhausted,
    They are becoming ⁶²like women;
    Their dwelling places are set on fire,
    The ⁶³bars of her gates are broken.
31. One ^[ah]64courier runs to meet ^[ai]another,
    And one ^[aj]65messenger to meet ^[ak]another,
    To tell the king of Babylon
    That his city has been captured from end to end;
32. The fords also have been seized,
    And they have burned the marshes with fire,
    And the men of war are terrified.
33. ¶ For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
    ¶ “The daughter of Babylon is like a ⁶⁶threshing floor
    At the time ^[al]it is stamped firm;
    Yet in a little while the time of ⁶⁷harvest will come for her.”
34. ¶ “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has ⁶⁸devoured me and crushed me,
    He has set me down like an ⁶⁹empty vessel;
    He has ⁷⁰swallowed me like a monster,
    He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
    He has washed me away.
35. “May the ⁷¹violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”
    The ^[am]inhabitant of Zion will say;
    And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    Jerusalem will say.
36. ¶ Therefore thus says the LORD,
    ¶ “Behold, I am going to ⁷²plead your case
    And ⁷³exact full vengeance for you;
    And ⁷⁴I will dry up her ^[an]sea
    And make her fountain dry.
37. “⁷⁵Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals,
    An ⁷⁶object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
38. “They will roar together like ⁷⁷young lions,
    They will growl like lions’ cubs.
39. “When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet
    And ⁷⁸make them drunk, that they may become jubilant
    And may ⁷⁹sleep a perpetual sleep
    And not wake up,” declares the LORD.
40. “I will bring them down like ^[ao]lambs ⁸⁰to the slaughter,
    Like rams together with male goats.
41. ¶ “How ^[ap]81Sheshak has been captured,
    And ⁸²the praise of the whole earth been seized!
    How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
42. “The ^[aq]83sea has come up over Babylon;
    She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
43. “Her cities have become an ⁸⁴object of horror,
    A parched land and a desert,
    A land in which ⁸⁵no man lives
    And through which no son of man passes.
44. “⁸⁶I will punish Bel in Babylon,
    And I will make what he has swallowed ⁸⁷come out of his mouth;
    And the nations will no longer ⁸⁸stream to him.
    Even the ⁸⁹wall of Babylon has fallen down!
45. ¶ “⁹⁰Come forth from her midst, My people,
    And each of you ⁹¹save yourselves
    From the fierce anger of the LORD.
46. “Now ⁹²so that your heart does not grow faint,
    And you are not afraid at the ⁹³report that will be heard in the land—
    For the report will come ^[ar]one year,
    And after that ^[as]another report in ^[at]another year,
    And violence will be in the land
    With ⁹⁴ruler against ruler—
47. Therefore behold, days are coming
    When I will punish the ⁹⁵idols of Babylon;
    And her whole land will be ⁹⁶put to shame
    And all her slain will fall in her midst.
48. “Then ⁹⁷heaven and earth and all that is in them
    Will shout for joy over Babylon,
    For ⁹⁸the destroyers will come to her from the north,”
    Declares the LORD.
49. ¶ ⁹⁹Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,
    As also for Babylon ¹⁰⁰the slain of all the earth have fallen.
50. You ¹⁰¹who have escaped the sword,
    Depart! Do not stay!
    ¹⁰²Remember the LORD from afar,
    And let Jerusalem ^[au]come to your mind.
51. ¹⁰³We are ashamed because we have heard reproach;
    Disgrace has covered our faces,
    For ¹⁰⁴aliens have entered
    The holy places of the LORD’S house.
52. ¶ “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,
    “When I will punish her ¹⁰⁵idols,
    And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.
53. “Though Babylon should ¹⁰⁶ascend to the heavens,
    And though she should fortify ^[av]her lofty stronghold,
    From ¹⁰⁷Me destroyers will come to her,” declares the LORD.
54. ¶ The ¹⁰⁸sound of an outcry from Babylon,
    And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
55. For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon,
    And He will make her loud ^[aw]noise vanish from her.
    And their ¹⁰⁹waves will roar like many waters;
    The tumult of their voices ^[ax]sounds forth.
56. For the ¹¹⁰destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,
    And her mighty men will be captured,
    Their ¹¹¹bows are shattered;
    For the LORD is a God of ¹¹²recompense,
    He will fully repay.
57. “I will ¹¹³make her princes and her wise men drunk,
    Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men,
    That they may sleep a ¹¹⁴perpetual sleep and not wake up,”
    ¹¹⁵Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
58. ¶ Thus says the LORD of hosts,
    ¶ “The broad ¹¹⁶wall of Babylon will be completely razed
    And her high ¹¹⁷gates will be set on fire;
    So the peoples will ¹¹⁸toil for nothing,
    And the nations become ¹¹⁹exhausted only for fire.”
59. ¶ The ^[ay]message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of ¹²⁰Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with ¹²¹Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster.)
60. So Jeremiah ¹²²wrote in a single ^[az]scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.
61. Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,
62. and say, ‘You, O LORD, have ^[ba]promised concerning this place to ¹²³cut it off, so that there will be ¹²⁴nothing dwelling in it, ^[bb]whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’
63. And as soon as you finish reading this ^[bc]scroll, you will tie a stone to it and ¹²⁵throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,
64. and say, ‘Just so shall Babylon sink down and ¹²⁶not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become ¹²⁷exhausted.’” ¹²⁸Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ Cryptic name for Chaldea; or the heart of those who rise up against Me
2. ^ Or a destroying wind
3. ^ Some versions read winnowers
4. ^ M.T. reads Against him who
5. ^ I.e. the Chaldean defender
6. ^ Lit tread(s) (in order to string)
7. ^ Lit tread(s) (in order to string)
8. ^ M.T. reads Against him who
9. ^ Or wounded
10. ^ Lit widowed
11. ^ Lit From
12. ^ Or silenced or made lifeless
13. ^ Or penalty for iniquity
14. ^ Or balsam resin
15. ^ Lit is lifted
16. ^ Lit forth
17. ^ Or standard
18. ^ Or watchmen
19. ^ Lit cubit
20. ^ Lit being cut off
21. ^ Or mankind
22. ^ I.e. like the song of grape treaders
23. ^ Or graven images
24. ^ Lit Fashioner
25. ^ Or Scepter; cf Num 24:17
26. ^ Lit shatterer
27. ^ Or standard
28. ^ Lit Her
29. ^ Lit Her
30. ^ I.e. lieutenant governors
31. ^ Lit his
32. ^ Or An object of horror
33. ^ Lit dried up
34. ^ Lit runner
35. ^ Lit runner
36. ^ Lit announcer
37. ^ Lit announcer
38. ^ Lit of treading it
39. ^ Lit inhabitress
40. ^ Or broad river
41. ^ Or young rams
42. ^ Cryptic name for Babylon
43. ^ Or broad river
44. ^ Lit in the
45. ^ Lit the
46. ^ Lit the
47. ^ Lit come upon your heart
48. ^ Lit the height of her strength
49. ^ Or voice
50. ^ Lit is given
51. ^ Lit word
52. ^ Or book
53. ^ Lit spoken
54. ^ Lit from man even to beast
55. ^ Or book

REFERENCES

1. ^ Je 4:11, 12; 23:19; Ho 13:15
2. ^ Is 41:16; Je 15:7; Mt 3:12
3. ^ Je 50:14, 29
4. ^ Je 46:4
5. ^ Is 13:15; 14:19; Je 49:26; 50:30, 37
6. ^ Is 54:7, 8; Je 33:24-26
7. ^ Ho 4:1, 2
8. ^ Je 50:8, 28; Re 18:4
9. ^ Nu 16:26
10. ^ Je 50:15
11. ^ Je 25:14
12. ^ Je 25:15; Hab 2:16; Re 14:8; 17:4
13. ^ Re 14:8; 18:3
14. ^ Je 25:16
15. ^ Is 21:9; Je 50:2; Re 14:8; 18:2
16. ^ Is 13:6; Re 18:9
17. ^ Je 46:11
18. ^ Is 13:14; Je 46:16; 50:16
19. ^ Ezr 9:6; Re 18:5
20. ^ Ps 37:6; Mc 7:9
21. ^ Is 40:2; Je 50:28
22. ^ Je 46:4, 9; Jl 3:9, 10
23. ^ Je 50:28
24. ^ Is 13:2; Je 50:2; 51:27
25. ^ Je 4:28; 23:20; 51:29
26. ^ Re 17:1
27. ^ Is 45:3
28. ^ Is 57:17; Hab 2:9-11
29. ^ Je 49:13
30. ^ Je 51:27; Na 3:15
31. ^ Ge 1:1; Je 10:12-16; 51:15-19
32. ^ Jb 9:8; Ps 146:5, 6; Je 32:17; Ac 14:15; Ro 1:20
33. ^ Jb 37:2-6; Ps 18:13
34. ^ Ps 135:7; Je 10:13
35. ^ Jon 1:4
36. ^ Is 44:18-20; Je 10:14
37. ^ Hab 2:18, 19
38. ^ Je 18:15
39. ^ Ps 73:26; Je 10:16
40. ^ Je 50:34
41. ^ Is 10:5; 41:15, 16; Je 50:23
42. ^ Is 8:9; 41:15, 16; Mc 4:12, 13
43. ^ Ex 15:1
44. ^ Ex 15:4; Is 43:17
45. ^ 2Ch 36:17; Is 13:15, 16
46. ^ Is 13:18
47. ^ Je 50:10
48. ^ Je 50:15, 29
49. ^ Je 50:31
50. ^ Is 13:2; Zc 4:7
51. ^ Re 8:8
52. ^ Is 13:19-22; Je 50:13; 51:29
53. ^ Is 13:2-5; 18:3; Je 50:2; 51:12
54. ^ Je 50:3, 9
55. ^ Ge 8:4; 2Ki 19:37; Is 37:38
56. ^ Ge 10:3
57. ^ Je 50:42
58. ^ Je 8:16; 10:10; 50:46; Am 8:8
59. ^ Is 13:19, 20; 47:11; Je 50:13; 51:26, 43
60. ^ Ps 76:5; Je 50:15, 36, 37
61. ^ Is 13:7, 8; Na 3:13
62. ^ Is 13:7, 8; Na 3:13
63. ^ Is 45:1, 2; La 2:9; Am 1:5; Na 3:13
64. ^ 2Ch 30:6
65. ^ 2Sa 18:19-31
66. ^ Is 21:10; 41:15, 16; Mc 4:13
67. ^ Is 17:5; Ho 6:11; Jl 3:13; Re 14:15
68. ^ Je 50:17
69. ^ Is 24:1-3
70. ^ Jb 20:15; Je 51:44
71. ^ Ps 137:8
72. ^ Ps 140:12
73. ^ Je 51:6, 11; Ro 12:19
74. ^ Je 50:38
75. ^ Re 18:2
76. ^ Je 25:9
77. ^ Je 2:15
78. ^ Je 25:27; 48:26; 51:57
79. ^ Ps 76:5
80. ^ Je 48:15; 50:27
81. ^ Je 25:26
82. ^ Je 49:25
83. ^ Is 8:7, 8; Je 51:55; Da 9:26
84. ^ Je 50:12
85. ^ Is 13:20; Je 2:6
86. ^ Is 46:1; Je 50:2
87. ^ Ezr 1:7, 8
88. ^ Is 2:2
89. ^ Je 50:15; 51:58
90. ^ Is 48:20; Je 50:8, 28; 51:6; Re 18:4
91. ^ Ge 19:12-16; Ac 2:40
92. ^ Is 43:5; Je 46:27, 28
93. ^ 2Ki 19:7; Is 13:3-5
94. ^ Is 19:2
95. ^ Is 21:9; 46:1, 2; Je 50:2; 51:52
96. ^ Je 50:12, 35-37
97. ^ Is 44:23; 48:20; 49:13; Re 18:20
98. ^ Je 50:3
99. ^ Ps 137:8; Je 50:29
100. ^ Re 18:24
101. ^ Je 44:28
102. ^ De 4:29-31; Ps 137:6
103. ^ Ps 44:15
104. ^ Ps 74:3-8; La 1:10
105. ^ Je 50:38
106. ^ Ge 11:4; Jb 20:6; Ps 139:8-10; Is 14:12-14; Je 49:16; Am 9:2; Ob 4
107. ^ Is 13:3
108. ^ Je 48:3-5; 50:22, 46
109. ^ Ps 18:4; 69:2; 124:2, 4, 5; Je 51:42
110. ^ Je 51:48, 53; Hab 2:8
111. ^ Ps 46:9; 76:3
112. ^ De 32:35; Ps 94:1, 2; Je 51:6, 24
113. ^ Je 25:27
114. ^ Ps 76:5, 6
115. ^ Je 46:18; 48:15
116. ^ Je 50:15
117. ^ Is 45:1, 2
118. ^ Hab 2:13
119. ^ Je 9:5; 51:64; La 5:5
120. ^ Je 32:12; 36:4; 45:1
121. ^ Je 28:1; 52:1
122. ^ Is 30:8; Je 30:2, 3; 36:2, 4, 32
123. ^ Is 13:19-22; 14:22, 23; Je 50:3, 13, 39, 40
124. ^ Je 51:43; Eze 35:9
125. ^ Je 19:10, 11; Re 18:21
126. ^ Na 1:8, 9
127. ^ Je 51:58
128. ^ Jb 31:40; Ps 72:20

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