Verse 48
Jeremiah 51:48
Bible in Basic English
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And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/רִנְּנ֤וּ עַל בָּבֶל֙ שָׁמַ֣יִם וָ/אָ֔רֶץ וְ/כֹ֖ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּ/הֶ֑ם כִּ֧י מִ/צָּפ֛וֹן יָבוֹא לָ֥/הּ הַ/שּׁוֹדְדִ֖ים נְאֻם יְהוָֽה
English Translation
And we will sing about Babylon, heavens and earth, and all that is in them, for from the north will come the destroyers, declares the Lord.
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Chapter 51 Context
1
The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those...
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And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble...
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3
Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her yo...
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4
And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
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5
For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God (Elohim), by the Lord of armies; for their la...
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6
Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doin...
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7
Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine...
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8
Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil f...
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9
We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to hi...
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10
The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of t...
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11
Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of...
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12
Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in t...
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13
O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil...
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14
The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as wit...
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15
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by...
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16
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go...
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17
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the imag...
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18
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
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19
The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of ar...
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20
You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you king...
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21
With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it...
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22
With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the...
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23
With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen wil...
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24
And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they ha...
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25
See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the...
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26
And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you w...
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27
Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations rea...
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28
Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captain...
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29
And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Bab...
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30
Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength h...
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31
One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to ano...
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32
And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men...
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33
For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel: The daughter of Babylon i...
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34
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vess...
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35
May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say;...
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36
For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what...
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37
And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise,...
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38
They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
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39
When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may be...
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40
I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
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41
How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of w...
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42
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
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43
Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no so...
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44
And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer...
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45
My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.
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46
So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about i...
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47
For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and...
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48
And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those...
49
As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be s...
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50
You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you...
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51
We are shamed because bitter words have come to our ears; our faces are covered with shame: for men...
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52
For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images;...
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53
Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in wit...
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54
There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans...
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55
For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and h...
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56
For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken...
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57
And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcom...
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58
The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doo...
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59
The order which Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when h...
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60
And Jeremiah put in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon.
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61
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;
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62
And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so tha...
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63
And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixe...
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64
And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Jeremiah
- Chapter
- Chapter 51 (64 verses)
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- Bible in Basic English