# Jeremiah 51 đ
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(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
[[#Verse 01.]] The Lord says:
âI will cause a destructive wind to blow
against Babylon and the people who inhabit Babylonia.
[[#Verse 02.]]Â I will send people to winnow Babylonia like a wind blowing away chaff.
They will winnow her and strip her land bare.
This will happen when they come against her from every direction,
when it is time to destroy her.
[[#Verse 03.]]Â Do not give her archers time to string their bows
or to put on their coats of armor.
Do not spare any of her young men.
Completely destroy her whole army.
[[#Verse 04.]] Let them fall slain in the land of Babylonia,
mortally wounded in the streets of her cities.
[[#Verse 05.]]Â âFor Israel and Judah will not be forsaken
by their God, the Lord of Heavenâs Armies.
For the land of Babylonia is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel.
[[#Verse 06.]]Â Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people.
Flee to save your lives.
Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins,
for it is time for the Lord to wreak his revenge.
He will pay Babylonia back for what she has done.
[[#Verse 07.]] Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lordâs hand;
she had made the whole world drunk.
The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath,
so they have all gone mad.
[[#Verse 08.]] But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed.
Cry out in mourning over it!
Get medicine for her wounds;
perhaps she can be healed!
[[#Verse 09.]]Â Foreigners living there will say,
âWe tried to heal her, but she could not be healed.
Letâs leave Babylonia and each go back to his own country.
For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions.
It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.â
[[#Verse 10.]]Â The exiles from Judah will say,
âThe Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us!
Come on, letâs go and proclaim in Zion
what the Lord our God has done!â
[[#Verse 11.]] âSharpen your arrows!
Fill your quivers!
The Lord will arouse a spirit of hostility in the kings of Media,
for he intends to destroy Babylonia.
For that is how the Lord will get his revengeâ
how he will get his revenge for the Babyloniansâ destruction of his temple.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â Give the signal to attack Babylonâs wall!
Bring more guards;
post them all around the city.
Put men in ambush,
for the Lord will do what he has planned.
He will do what he said he would do to the people of Babylon.
[[#Verse 13.]]Â âYou who live along the rivers of Babylon,
the time of your end has come.
You who are rich in plundered treasure,
it is time for your lives to be cut off.
[[#Verse 14.]] The Lord of Heavenâs Armies has solemnly sworn,
âI will fill your land with enemy soldiers.
They will swarm over it like locusts.
They will raise up shouts of victory over it.â
[[#Verse 15.]] He is the one who by his power made the earth.
He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place,
by his understanding he spread out the heavens.
[[#Verse 16.]]Â When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar.
He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons;
he makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.
He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it;
[[#Verse 17.]]Â all idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made.
For the image he forges is merely a sham;
there is no breath in any of those idols.
[[#Verse 18.]]Â They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed.
When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
[[#Verse 19.]] The Lord, who is the portion of the descendants of Jacob, is not like them. For he is the one who created everything, including the people of Israel whom he claims as his own. His name is the Lord of Heavenâs Armies.
[[#Verse 20.]] âBabylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.
[[#Verse 21.]]Â I used you to smash horses and their riders.
I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.
[[#Verse 22.]]Â I used you to smash men and women.
I used you to smash old men and young men.
I used you to smash young men and young women.
[[#Verse 23.]]Â I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks.
I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen.
I used you to smash governors and leaders.â
[[#Verse 24.]]Â âBut I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wicked things they did in Zion right before the eyes of you Judeans,â
says the Lord.
[[#Verse 25.]] The Lord says, âBeware! I am opposed to you, Babylon!
You are like a destructive mountain that destroys all the earth.
I will unleash my power against you;
I will roll you off the cliffs and make you like a burned-out mountain.
[[#Verse 26.]]Â No one will use any of your stones as a cornerstone;
no one will use any of them in the foundation of his house.
For you will lie desolate forever,â
says the Lord.
[[#Verse 27.]]Â âRaise up battle flags throughout the lands.
Sound the trumpets calling the nations to do battle.
Prepare the nations to do battle against Babylonia.
Call for these kingdoms to attack her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a commander to lead the attack.
Send horses against her like a swarm of locusts.
[[#Verse 28.]]Â Prepare the nations to do battle against her.
Prepare the kings of the Medes.
Prepare their governors and all their leaders.
Prepare all the countries they rule to do battle against her.
[[#Verse 29.]]Â The earth will tremble and writhe in agony;
for the Lord will carry out his plan.
He plans to make the land of Babylonia
a wasteland where no one lives.
[[#Verse 30.]]Â The soldiers of Babylonia will stop fighting.
They will remain in their fortified cities.
They will lose their strength to do battle.
They will be as frightened as women.
The houses in her cities will be set on fire.
The gates of her cities will be broken down.
[[#Verse 31.]]Â One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon;
one messenger after another will come bringing news.
They will bring news to the king of Babylon
that his whole city has been captured.
[[#Verse 32.]]Â They will report that the fords have been captured,
the reed marshes have been burned,
the soldiers are terrified.
[[#Verse 33.]] For the Lord of Heavenâs Armies, the God of Israel, says,
âFair Babylon will be like a threshing floor
that has been trampled flat for harvest.
The time for her to be cut down and harvested
will come very soon.â
[[#Verse 34.]]Â âKing Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
devoured me and drove my people out.
Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me.
He filled his belly with my riches;
he made me an empty dish.
He completely cleaned me out.â
[[#Verse 35.]]Â The person who lives in Zion says,
âMay Babylon pay for the violence done to me and to my relatives.â
Jerusalem says,
âMay those living in Babylonia pay for the bloodshed of my people.â
[[#Verse 36.]] Therefore the Lord says,
âI will stand up for your cause.
I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you.
I will dry up their sea;
I will make their springs run dry.
[[#Verse 37.]]Â Babylon will become a heap of ruins.
Jackals will make their home there.
It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn,
a place where no one lives.
[[#Verse 38.]]Â The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey;
they are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.
[[#Verse 39.]]Â When their appetites are all stirred up,
I will set out a banquet for them.
I will make them drunk
so that they will pass out,
they will fall asleep forever,
they will never wake up,â
says the Lord.
[[#Verse 40.]]Â âI will lead them off to be slaughtered
like lambs, rams, and male goats.
[[#Verse 41.]] âSee how Babylon has been captured!
See how the pride of the whole earth has been taken!
See what an object of horror
Babylon has become among the nations!
[[#Verse 42.]]Â The sea has swept over Babylon.
She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.
[[#Verse 43.]]Â The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins.
She has become a dry and barren desert.
No one lives in those towns any more;
no one even passes through them.
[[#Verse 44.]]Â I will punish the god Bel in Babylon.
I will make him spit out what he has swallowed.
The nations will not come streaming to him any longer.
Indeed, the walls of Babylon will fall.
[[#Verse 45.]]Â âGet out of Babylon, my people!
Flee to save your lives
from the fierce anger of the Lord!
[[#Verse 46.]]Â Do not lose your courage or become afraid
because of the reports that are heard in the land.
For a report will come in one year.
Another report will follow it in the next.
There will be violence in the land
with ruler fighting against ruler.
[[#Verse 47.]]Â âSo the time will certainly come
when I will punish the idols of Babylon.
Her whole land will be put to shame.
All her mortally wounded will collapse in her midst.
[[#Verse 48.]]Â Then heaven and earth and all that is in them
will sing for joy over Babylon.
For destroyers from the north will attack it,â
says the Lord.
[[#Verse 49.]]Â âBabylon must fall
because of the Israelites she has killed,
just as the earthâs mortally wounded fell
because of Babylon.
[[#Verse 50.]]Â You who have escaped the sword,
go, do not delay.
Remember the Lord in a faraway land.
Think about Jerusalem.
[[#Verse 51.]] âWe are ashamed because we have been insulted.
Our faces show our disgrace.
For foreigners have invaded
the holy rooms in the Lordâs temple.â
[[#Verse 52.]] Yes, but the time will certainly come,â says the Lord,
âwhen I will punish her idols.
Throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan.
[[#Verse 53.]]Â Even if Babylon climbs high into the sky
and fortifies her elevated stronghold,
I will send destroyers against her,â
says the Lord.
[[#Verse 54.]]Â Cries of anguish will come from Babylon,
the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.
[[#Verse 55.]] For the Lord is ready to destroy Babylon,
and put an end to her loud noise.
Their waves will roar like turbulent waters.
They will make a deafening noise.
[[#Verse 56.]]Â For a destroyer is attacking Babylon.
Her warriors will be captured;
their bows will be broken.
For the Lord is a God who punishes;
he pays back in full.
[[#Verse 57.]]Â âI will make her officials and wise men drunk,
along with her governors, leaders, and warriors.
They will fall asleep forever and never wake up,â
says the King whose name is the Lord of Heavenâs Armies.
[[#Verse 58.]] This is what the Lord of Heavenâs Armies says,
âBabylonâs thick wall will be completely demolished.
Her high gates will be set on fire.
The peoples strive for what does not satisfy.
The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed.â
[[#Verse 59.]] This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. (Seraiah was a quartermaster.)
[[#Verse 60.]] Jeremiah recorded on one scroll all the judgments that would come upon Babylonâall these prophecies written about Babylon.
[[#Verse 61.]] Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, âWhen you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.Â
[[#Verse 62.]] Then say, âO Lord, you have announced that you will destroy this place so that no people or animals live in it any longer. Certainly it will lie desolate forever!âÂ
[[#Verse 63.]]Â When you finish reading this scroll aloud, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.Â
[[#Verse 64.]]Â Then say, âIn the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.ââ The prophecies of Jeremiah end here.
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