Verse 57

Jeremiah 51:57

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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57 And I will make her princes drunk. and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the whose name is Lord of hosts.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ֠/הִשְׁכַּרְתִּי שָׂרֶ֨י/הָ וַ/חֲכָמֶ֜י/הָ פַּחוֹתֶ֤י/הָ וּ/סְגָנֶ֨י/הָ֙ וְ/גִבּוֹרֶ֔י/הָ וְ/יָשְׁנ֥וּ שְׁנַת עוֹלָ֖ם וְ/לֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ נְאֻ֨ם הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽ/וֹ

English Translation

And I have hired her princes and her wise men, her lesser ones and her governors, and her mighty men, and they will sleep a year long, and they will not awaken, says the King, Yahweh of Hosts, His name.

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Chapter 51 Context

1 Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and again... Focus ↗

2 And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they are... Focus ↗

3 Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not, him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: sp... Focus ↗

4 And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof. Focus ↗

5 For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God (Elohim) the Lord of hosts: but their land h... Focus ↗

6 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniqu... Focus ↗

7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations h... Focus ↗

8 Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be he... Focus ↗

9 We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to h... Focus ↗

10 The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us declare in Sion the work of the Lord our... Focus ↗

11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes:... Focus ↗

12 Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare th... Focus ↗

13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction... Focus ↗

14 The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying : I will fill thee with men as with locusts, and the... Focus ↗

15 He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out t... Focus ↗

16 When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied in heaven: he lifteth up the clouds from the en... Focus ↗

17 Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he h... Focus ↗

18 They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Focus ↗

19 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the scept... Focus ↗

20 Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and wit... Focus ↗

21 And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces... Focus ↗

22 And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man... Focus ↗

23 And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his dock, and with thee I will break in pieces... Focus ↗

24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that they have d... Focus ↗

25 Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole ear... Focus ↗

26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt... Focus ↗

27 Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations agai... Focus ↗

28 Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all t... Focus ↗

29 And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for the design of the Lord against Baby... Focus ↗

30 The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath fai... Focus ↗

31 One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon... Focus ↗

32 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted... Focus ↗

33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God (Elohim) of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thras... Focus ↗

34 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty ve... Focus ↗

35 The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the habitation of Sion : and my blood upon... Focus ↗

36 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and... Focus ↗

37 And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing,... Focus ↗

38 They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions. Focus ↗

39 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an... Focus ↗

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids. Focus ↗

41 How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an aston... Focus ↗

42 The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Focus ↗

43 Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwel... Focus ↗

44 And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had s... Focus ↗

45 Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the... Focus ↗

46 And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land : and a rumou... Focus ↗

47 Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be c... Focus ↗

48 And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for sp... Focus ↗

49 And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain i... Focus ↗

50 You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jer... Focus ↗

51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: because strangers a... Focus ↗

52 Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her l... Focus ↗

53 If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come... Focus ↗

54 The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans : Focus ↗

55 Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave s... Focus ↗

56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and thei... Focus ↗

57 And I will make her princes drunk. and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valia...

58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high... Focus ↗

59 The word that Jeremias the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he... Focus ↗

60 And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are... Focus ↗

61 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all t... Focus ↗

62 Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it: so that there should be n... Focus ↗

63 And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt t... Focus ↗

64 And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I wi... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Jeremiah
Chapter: Chapter 51 (64 verses)
Version: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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