Verse 3
Jeremiah 51:3
World English Bible, British Edition
3
Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow,
also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail.
Don’t spare her young men!
Utterly destroy all her army!
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֶֽל יִדְרֹ֤ךְ ידרך הַ/דֹּרֵךְ֙ קַשְׁתּ֔/וֹ וְ/אֶל יִתְעַ֖ל בְּ/סִרְיֹנ֑/וֹ וְ/אַֽל תַּחְמְלוּ֙ אֶל בַּ֣חֻרֶ֔י/הָ הַחֲרִ֖ימוּ כָּל צְבָאָֽ/הּ
English Translation
To the way of the archer, and do not spare the young men of her devoted ones; destroy all her hosts.
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Chapter 51 Context
1
The LORD says:
“Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,
and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a...
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2
I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her.
They will empty her land;
for in the day of t...
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3
Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow,
also against him who lifts himself up in his coa...
4
They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
and thrust through in her streets.
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5
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God (Elohim),
by the LORD of Armies;
though their land...
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6
“Flee out of the middle of Babylon!
Everyone save his own life!
Don’t be cut off in her iniquity,
fo...
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7
Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand,
who made all the earth drunk.
The nations have dru...
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8
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed!
Wail for her!
Take balm for her pain.
Perhaps she ma...
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9
“We would have healed Babylon,
but she is not healed.
Forsake her,
and let’s each go into his own co...
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10
‘The LORD has produced our righteousness.
Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of the LORD our G...
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11
“Make the arrows sharp!
Hold the shields firmly!
The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of...
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12
Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon!
Make the watch strong!
Set the watchmen,
and prepare...
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13
You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures,
your end has come, the measure of your covetous...
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14
The LORD of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,
‘Surely I will fill you with men,
as with locusts,...
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15
“He has made the earth by his power.
He has established the world by his wisdom.
By his understandin...
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16
When he utters his voice,
there is a roar of waters in the heavens,
and he causes the vapours to asc...
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17
“Every man has become stupid and without knowledge.
Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image,
fo...
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18
They are vanity,
a work of delusion.
In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
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19
The portion of Jacob is not like these,
for he formed all things,
including the tribe of his inherit...
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20
“You are my battle axe and weapons of war.
With you I will break the nations into pieces.
With you I...
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21
With you I will break in pieces
the horse and his rider.
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22
With you I will break in pieces
the chariot and him who rides therein.
With you I will break in piec...
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23
With you I will break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock.
With you I will break in pieces
the farm...
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24
“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
all their evil that they have done i...
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25
“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says the LORD,
“which destroys all the earth.
I wil...
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26
They won’t take a cornerstone from you,
nor a stone for foundations;
but you will be desolate foreve...
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27
“Set up a standard in the land!
Blow the trumpet amongst the nations!
Prepare the nations against he...
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28
Prepare against her the nations,
the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and al...
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29
The land trembles and is in pain;
for the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand,
to make the la...
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30
The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting,
they remain in their strongholds.
Their might has f...
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31
One runner will run to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to show the king of Babylon...
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32
So the passages are seized.
They have burnt the reeds with fire.
The men of war are frightened.”
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33
For the LORD of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel says:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshin...
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34
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me.
He has crushed me.
He has made me an empty vess...
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35
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!”
the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,
“M...
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36
Therefore the LORD says:
“Behold, I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up...
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37
Babylon will become heaps,
a dwelling place for jackals,
an astonishment, and a hissing,
without inh...
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38
They will roar together like young lions.
They will growl as lions’ cubs.
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39
When they are inflamed, I will make their feast,
and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,...
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40
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
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41
“How Sheshach is taken!
How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become a desola...
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42
The sea has come up on Babylon.
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
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43
Her cities have become a desolation,
a dry land, and a desert,
a land in which no man dwells.
No son...
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44
I will execute judgement on Bel in Babylon,
and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swal...
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45
“My people, go away from the middle of her,
and each of you save yourselves from the LORD’s fierce a...
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46
Don’t let your heart faint.
Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land.
For news will co...
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47
Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgement
on the engraved images of Babylon;
and...
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48
Then the heavens and the earth,
and all that is therein,
will sing for joy over Babylon;
for the des...
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49
“As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylo...
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50
You who have escaped the sword, go!
Don’t stand still!
Remember the LORD from afar,
and let Jerusale...
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51
“We are confounded
because we have heard reproach.
Confusion has covered our faces,
for strangers ha...
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52
“Therefore behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
“that I will execute judgement on her engraved ima...
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53
Though Babylon should mount up to the sky,
and though she should fortify the height of her strength,...
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54
“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
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55
For the LORD lays Babylon waste,
and destroys out of her the great voice!
Their waves roar like many...
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56
For the destroyer has come on her,
even on Babylon.
Her mighty men are taken.
Their bows are broken...
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57
I will make her princes, her wise men,
her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk.
They w...
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58
The LORD of Armies says:
“The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown.
Her high gates will...
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59
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son
of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when h...
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60
Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon,
even all these words that are wri...
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61
Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that
you read all these words,
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62
and say, ‘LORD, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off,
that no one will dwell in it,...
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63
It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall
bind a stone to it, and cast it...
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64
Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again
because of the evil that I will...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Jeremiah
- Chapter
- Chapter 51 (64 verses)
- Version
- World English Bible, British Edition