Verse 63
Jeremiah 51:63
World English Bible, British Edition
63
It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall
bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הָיָה֙ כְּ/כַלֹּ֣תְ/ךָ֔ לִ/קְרֹ֖א אֶת הַ/סֵּ֣פֶר הַ/זֶּ֑ה תִּקְשֹׁ֤ר עָלָי/ו֙ אֶ֔בֶן וְ/הִשְׁלַכְתּ֖/וֹ אֶל תּ֥וֹךְ פְּרָֽת
English Translation
And when you finish reading this book, you shall tie a stone upon it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates.
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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...
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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...
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