1The LORD says: “Behold, I will raise up…
2I will send to Babylon strangers, who will…
3Against him who bends, let the archer bend…
4They will fall down slain in the land…
5For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by…
6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone…
7Babylon has been a golden cup in the…
8Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail…
9“We would have healed Babylon, but she is…
10‘The LORD has produced our righteousness. Come, and…
11“Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly!…
12Set up a standard against the walls of…
13You who dwell on many waters, abundant in…
14The LORD of Armies has sworn by himself,…
15“He has made the earth by his power.…
16When he utters his voice, there is a…
17“Every man has become stupid and without knowledge.…
18They are vanity, a work of delusion. In…
19The portion of Jacob is not like these,…
20“You are my battle ax and weapons of…
21With you I will break in pieces the…
22With you I will break in pieces the…
23With you I will break in pieces the…
24“I will give to Babylon and to all…
25“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says…
26They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor…
27“Set up a standard in the land! Blow…
28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of…
29The land trembles and is in pain; for…
30The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting,…
31One runner will run to meet another, and…
32So the passages are seized. They have burned…
33For the LORD of Armies, the God of…
34“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me.…
35May the violence done to me and to…
36Therefore the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead…
37Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for…
38They will roar together like young lions. They…
39When they are inflamed, I will make their…
40“I will bring them down like lambs to…
41“How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of…
42The sea has come up on Babylon. She…
43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry…
44I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon,…
45“My people, go away from the middle of…
46Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for…
47Therefore behold, the days come that I will…
48Then the heavens and the earth, and all…
49“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel…
50You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t…
51“We are confounded because we have heard reproach.…
52“Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD,…
53Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,…
54“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,…
55For the LORD lays Babylon waste, and destroys…
56For the destroyer has come on her, even…
57I will make her princes, her wise men,…
58The LORD of Armies says: “The wide walls…
59The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah…
60Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil…
61Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to…
62and say, ‘LORD, you have spoken concerning this…
63It will be, when you have finished reading…
64Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink,…
