themselves? 8Egypt is' like the Nile that riseth up, And like the rivers whose waters toss themselves; And he saith: 'I will rise up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.' Trance, ye horses, and rush madly, ye chariots; And let the mighty men go forth- JEREMIAH Gush and Put, that handle the shield, And the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.
l°For the Lord GOD of hosts shall have on that day A day of vengeance, that He may avenge Him of His adversaries; And the sword shall devour and be satiate, And shall be made drunk with their blood; For the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice In the north country by the river Euphrates. nGo up into Gilead, and take balm, 0 virgin daughter of Egypt; In yam dost thou use many medi- cines; „ There is no cure for thee. ^The nations have heard of thy shame, And the earth is full of thy cry; For the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, They are fallen both of them to- gether.
13The word that the LOBD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14Declare ye in Egypt, and announce in Migdol, And announce in Noph and in Tahpanhes; Say ye: ' Stand forth, and prepare thee, For the sword hath devoured round about thee.'
16Why is thy strong one overthrown? He stood not, because the LORD did thrust him down. 16He made many to stumble; Yea, they fell one upon another, And said: 'Arise, and let us return to our own people, And to the land of our birth, From the oppressing sword.7 17They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; He hath let the appointed time pass by/ 18As I live, saith the King, Whose name is the LOBD of hosts, Surely like Tabor among the mountains, And like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 190 thou daughter that dwellest in thyself to go into captivity; For Noph shall become a desola- tion, And shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.
20Egypt is a very fair heifer; But the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come. 21 Also her mercenaries in the midst of her Are like calves of the stall, For they also are turned back, they are fled away together, They did not stand; For the day of their calamity is come upon them, The time of their visitation. ^The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; For they march with an army, And come against her with axes, As hewers of wood. ^They cut down her forest, saith the LORD, Though it cannot be searched; Because they are more than the locusts, And are innumerable.
JEEEMIAH daughter of Egypt is put to shame;, She is delivered into the hand of the people of the north. 25The LORD of hosts, the God of Is- rael, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him; ^and I will deliver them ^into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LOED.
27But fear not thou, 0 Jacob My servant, Neither be dismayed, 0 Israel; For, lo, I will save thee from afar, And thy seed from the land of their captivity; And Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease, And none shall make him afraid. 28Fear not thou, 0 Jacob My serv- ant, saith the LORD, For I am with thee; For I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, But I will not make a full end of thee; And I will correct thee in measure, But will not utterly destroy thee.
A *7 The word of the LORD that came T ' to Jeremiah the prophet con- cerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2Thus saith the LORD: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, And shall become an overflowing stream, And they shall overflow the land and all that is therein, The city and them that dwell therein; And the men shall cry, And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of has strong ones, At the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers look not back to their children For feebleness of hands; 4Because of the day that cometh To spoil all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Zidon Every helper that remaineth; For the LORD will spoil the Philistines, The remnant of the isle of Caphtor. 5Baldness is come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley; How long wilt thou cut thyself? 60 thou sword of the LORD, How long will it be ere thou be quiet?
Put up thyself into thy scabbard, Rest, and be still. 7How canst thou be quiet? For the LORD hath given it a charge; Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, There hath He appointed it.
OfMoab.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled;, Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and dismayed. 2The praise of Moab is no more; JEREMIAH In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: 'Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation/ Thou also, 0 Madmen, shalt be brought to silence; The sword shall pursue thee. 3Hark! a cry from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction! 4Moab is destroyed; Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
5For by the ascent of Luhith With continual weeping shall they go up; For m the going down of Horonaim They have heard the distressing cry of destruction. 6Flee, save your lives, And be like a tamarisk in the wilderness.
7For, because thou hast trusted In thy works and in thy treasures, Thou also shalt be taken; And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, His priests and his princes to- gether. 8And the spoiler shall come upon every city, And no city shall escape; The valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; As the LORD hath spoken. 9Give wings unto Moab, For she must fly and get away; And her cities shall become a desolation, Without any to dwell therein. 10Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD with a slack hand, And cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. uMoab hath been at ease from his youth, And he hath settled on his lees, And hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Neither hath he gone into captivity; Therefore his taste remaineth in him.
And his scent is not changed. 12Therefore, behold, the days come, Saith the LORD, That I will send unto him them that tilt up, And they shall tilt him up; And they shall empty his vessels, And break their bottles in pieces. 13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, As the house of Israel was ashamed Of Beth-el their confidence.
14Ho w say ye. ' We are mighty men, And valiant men for the war'? 15Moab is spoiled, and they are gone up into her cities, And his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, Saith the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts. 16The calamity of Moab is near to come, And his affliction hasteth fast. 17Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him, And all ye that know his name; Say: 'How is the strong staff broken, The beautiful rod!' 180 thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon, Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; For the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee, He hath destroyed thy strongholds, 190 inhabitant of Aroer, Stand by the way, and watch; Ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth; Say: * What hath been done?'
JEREMIAH 20Moab is put to shame, for it dismayed; Wail and cry; Tell ye it in Arnon, That Moab is spoiled. 2lAnd judgment is come upon th country of the Plain; upon Holon, anc upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath ^and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, anc upon Beth-diblathaim; ^and upon Eariathaim, and upon Beth-gamul and upon Beth-meon; ^and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, fa] or near.
'"The horn of Moab is cut off, And his arm is broken, Saith the LORD. ^Make ye him drunken, For he magnified himself against the LORD; And Moab shall wallow in his vomit And he also shall be in derision.
27For was not Israel a derision unto thee?
Was he found among thieves? For as often as thou speakest of him, Thou waggest the head. 280 ye that dwell in Moab. Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; And be like the dove that maketh her nest In the sides of the pit's mouth.
MWe have heard of the pride of Moab; He is very proud; His loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness, And the assumption of his heart. 30I know his arrogancy, saith the LORD, That it is ill-founded; His boastings have wrought noth- ing well-founded.
31Therefore will I wail for Moab; Yea, I will cry out for all Moab, For the men of Kir-heres shall my heart moan. 32With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, 0 vine of Sibmah; Thy branches passed over the sea, They reached even to the sea of Jazer; Upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage The spoiler is fallen. 33 And gladness and joy is taken away From the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab; And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses; None shall tread with shouting; The shouting shall be no shouting. 34From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, Even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, From Zoar even unto Horonaim, A heifer of three years old; For the Waters of Nimrim also Shall be desolate.
35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, Saith the LORD, Him that offereth in the high place.
And him that offereth to his gods.
^Therefore my heart moaneth for Moab like pipes, And my heart moaneth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; Therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. 37For every head is bald, And every beard clipped; Upon all the hands are cuttings. And upon the loins sackcloth. 380n all the housetops of Moab and in the broad places thereof JEREMIAH There is lamentation every where; For I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, Saith the LOED.
39<How is it broken downF wail ye! 'How hath Moab turned the back with shame!' So shall Moab become a derision and a dismay To all that are round about him.
40For thus saith the LORD: Behold, he shall swoop as a vul- ture, And shall spread out his wings against Moab. 41The cities are taken, And the strongholds are seized, And the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day Shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
•^And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, Because he hath magnified him- self against the LORD. ^Terror, and the pit, and the trap, Are upon thee, 0 inhabitant of Moab, Saith the LORD. ^He that fleeth from the terror Shall fall into the pit; And he that getteth up out of the pit Shall be taken in the trap; For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, The year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
45In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives Stand without strength; For a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, And a flame from the midst of Sihon, And it devoureth' the corner of Moab, And the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. 46Woe unto thee, O Moab!
The people of Chemosh is undone; For thy sons are taken away cap- tive, And thy daughters into captivity. 47Yet will I turn the captivity of Moab In the end of days, saith the LORD.
Thus far is the judgment of Moab. A O Of the children of Ammon.
Thus saith the LORD: Hath Israel no sons?
Hath he no heir?
Why then doth Malcam take pos- session of Gad, And his people dwell in the cities thereof?
therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, That I will cause an alarm of war to be heard Against Kabbah of the children of Ammon; And it shall become a desolate mound, And her daughters shall be burned with fire; Then shall Israel dispossess them that did dispossess him, Saith the LORD.
8Wail, 0 Heshbon, for Ai is un- done; Cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; Lament, and run to and fro among the folds; For Malcam shall go into captiv- ity, His priests and his princes together JEREMIAH 4Wherefore gloriest thou in the val- leys, Thy flowing valley, 0 backsliding daughter?
That didst trust in thy treasures: 'Who shall come unto me?' 5Behold, I will bring a terror upon thee, Saith the Lord GOD of hosts, From all that are round about thee; And ye shall be driven out every man right forth, And there shall be none to gather up him that wandereth. 6But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, Saith the LORD.
70f Edom.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the pru- dent?
Is their wisdom vanished? 8Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, 0 inhabitants of Dedan; For I do bring the calamity of Esau upon him, The time that I shall punish him. 9If grape-gatherers came to thee, Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night, Would they not destroy till they had enough? 10But I have made Esau bare, 1 have uncovered his secret places, And he shall not be able to hide himself; His seed is spoiled, and his brethren, And his neighbours, and he is not. uLeave thy fatherless children, I will rear them, And let thy widows trust m Me.
12For thus saith the LORD: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall al- together go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. 13For I have sworn by Myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a re- proach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 14I have heard a message from the LORD, And an ambassador is sent among the nations: 'Gather yourselves together, and come against her, And rise up to the battle.' 15For, behold, I make thee small among the nations, And despised among men. 16Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, Even the pride of thy heart, 0 thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,1 That holdest the height of the hill; Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, 1 will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
17And Edom shall become an aston- ishment; Every one that passeth by it Shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. 18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, No man shall abide there, Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan Against the strong habitation; JEREMIAH For I will suddenly make him run away from it, And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it; For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a time? And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me? 20Theref ore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, That He hath taken against Edom; And His purposes, that He hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman- Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away, Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them. 21The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall; There is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea. ^Behold, he shall come up and swoop down as the vulture, And spread out his wings against Bozrah; And the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day Shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Damascus.
Hamath is ashamed, and Arpad; For they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away; There is trouble in the sea; It cannot be quiet. 24Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, And trembling hath seized on her; Anguish and pangs have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. 25'How is the city of praise left unrepaired, The city of my joy?* 26Theref ore her young men shall fall in her broad places, And all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, Saith the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, And it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
280f Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith the LORD: Arise ye, go up against Kedar, And spoil the children of the east. 29Their tents and their flocks shall they take, They shall carry away for them- selves their curtains, And all their vessels, and their camels; And they shall proclaim against them a terror on every side. 30Flee ye, flit far off, dwell deep, 0 ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; For Nebuchadrezzar king of Baby- lon hath taken counsel against you, And hath conceived a purpose against you. 31Arise, get you up against a nation that is at ease, That dwelleth without care, saith the LORD; That have neither gates nor bars, That dwell alone.
82And their camels shall be a booty, And the multitude of their cattle a spoil; And I will scatter unto all winds them* that have the corners polled; And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith the LORD.
JEREMIAH 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, A desolation for ever; No man shall abide there, Neither shall any son of man dwel] therein.
word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying: 35Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The chief of their might. ^And I will bring against Elam the four winds From the four quarters of heaven, And will scatter them toward all those winds; And there shall be no nation whither the dispersed of Elam shall not come.
37 And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, And before them that seek their life; And I will bring evil upon them, Even My fierce anger, saith the LORD; And I will send the sword after them, Till I have consumed them; 38And I will set My throne in Elam, And will destroy from thence king and princes, saith the LORD. 39But it shall come to pass m the end of days, That I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
g A The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
2Declare ye among the nations and announce, And set up a standard; Announce, and conceal not; Say: ' Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed/ 3For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And none shall dwell therein; They are fled, they are gone, both man and beast. 4In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; They shall go on their way weeping, And shall seek the LORD their God. They shall inquire concerning Zion With their faces hitherward. 'Come ye, and join yourselves to the LORD In an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten/ 6My people hath been lost sheep; Their shepherds have caused them to go astray, They have turned them away on the mountains; They have gone from mountain to They have forgotten their resting- place.
7A11 that found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said: 'We are not guilty'; Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, Even the LORD, the hope of their fathers 8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, And go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, JEREMIAH And be as the he-goats before the flocks. 9For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country; And they shall set themselves in array against her, From thence she shall be taken, Their arrows shall be as of a mighty * man that maketh childless; None shall return in vain. 10And Chaldea shall be a spoil; All that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LOED. "Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, 0 ye that plunder My heritage, Because ye gambol as a heifer at And neigh as strong horses; 12Your mother shall be sore ashamed, She that bore you shall be con- founded; Behold, the hindermost of the na- tions Shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, But it shall be wholly desolate; Every one that goeth by Babylon -Shall be appalled and hiss at all her plagues.
14Set yourselves ' in array against Babylon round about, All ye that bend the bow, Shoot at her, spare no arrows; For she hath sinned against the LORD.
15Shout against her round about, she hath submitted herself; Her buttresses are fallen, her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD, take vengeance upon her; As she hath done, do unto her.
» That is, Double rebellion.
16Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest; For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, And they shall flee every one to his own land.
17Israel is a scattered sheep, The lions have driven him away; First the king of Assyria hath: de- voured him, And last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. 18Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, As I have punished the king of Assyria. 19And I will bring Israel back to his pasture, And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, And his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. 20In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, The iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none, And the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; For I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
21Go up against the land of aMerathaim, even against it, And against, the inhabitants of bPekod; Waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, And do according to all that I have commanded thee. ^Hark! battle is in the land, And great destruction.
b That is, Visitation* JEREMIAH is the hammer of the whole earth Cut asunder and broken t How is Babylon become A desolation among the nations! MI have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, 0 Babylon, And thou wast not aware; Thou art found, and also caught, Because thou hast striven against the LORD.
2BThe LORD hath opened His armoury, And hath brought forth the weapons of His indignation; For it is a work that the Lord GOD of hosts Hath to do in the land of the Chal- deans.
^Come against her from every quar- ter, open her granaries, Cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; Let nothing of her be left. 27Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter; Woe unto them! for their day is come, The time of their visitation. ^Hark! they flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, The vengeance of His temple. 29CaIl together the archers against Babylon, All them that bend the bow; Encamp against her round about, Let none thereof escape; Recompense her according to her work, According to all that she hath done, do unto her: For she hath been arrogant against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel. ^Theref ore shall her young men fall in her broad places, i And all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, Saith the LORD.
31Behold, I am against thee, 0 thou most arrogant, Saith the Lord GOD of hosts; For thy day is come, The tune that I will punish thee. 32 And the most arrogant shall stum- ble and fall, And none shall raise him up; And I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it shall devour all that are round about him.
33Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The children of Israel and the chil- dren of Judah are oppressed to- gether; And all that took them captives hold them fast; They refuse to let them go. 34Their Redeemer is strong, The LORD of hosts is His name; He will thoroughly plead their cause, That He may give rest to the earth, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, And upon the inhabitants of Baby- lon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. 36A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. 37A sword is upon ^ their horses, and upon their chariots, And upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her, And they shall become as women A sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed. 38A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; JEEJEMIAH For it is a land of graven images, And they are mad upon things of horror. 39Therefore the wild-cats with the jackals shall dwell there,, And the ostriches shall dwell there- in,^ And it shall be no more inhabited for ever, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; So shall no man abide there, Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
^Behold, a people cometh from the north, And a great nation, and many kings Shall be roused from the utter- most parts of the earth. ^They lay hold on bow and spear, They are cruel, and have no com- passion; Their voice is like the roaring sea, And they ride upon horses; Set in array, as a man for war, Against thee, 0 daughter of Babylon. ^The king of Babylon hath heard the fame of them, And his hands wax feeble; Anguish hath taken hold of him, And pain, as of a woman in travail.
^Behbld, he shall come up like a lion Irom the thickets of the Jordan Against the strong habitation; For I will suddenly make them run away from it, And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it; For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a tune?
And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me?
» That is, The heart of them that rise up against Me. According to ancient tradition, a cyphei for Casdim, that is, Chaldea.
45Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, That He hath taken against Baby- lon, And His purposes, that He hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away.
Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them.
46At the noise of the taking of Baby- lon the earth quaketh, And the cry is heard among the nations.
£j ~| Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, And against them that dwell in aLeb-karnai, a destroying wind. 2And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall fan her, And they shall empty her land; For in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 8Let the archer bend his bow against her, And let him lift himself up against her in his coat of mail; And spare ye not her young men, Destroy ye utterly all her host. 4And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, And thrust through in her streets. 6For Israel is not widowed, nor Judah, Of his God, of the LORD of hosts; For their land is full of guilt Against the Holy One of Israel. 6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, And save every man his life, Be not cut off in her iniquity; For it is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; He will render unto her a recom- pense.
JEREMIAH 7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, That made all the earth drunken; The nations have drunk of her wine, Therefore the nations are mad. 8Babylon is suddenly fallen and de- stroyed, Wail for her; Take balm for her pain, If so be she may be healed. 9We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed; Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; For her judgment reacheth unto heaven, And is lifted up even to the skies IOThe LORD hath brought forth our victory; Come, and let us declare in Zion The work of the LORD our God.
uMake bright the arrows, Fill the quivers, The LORD hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes; Because His device is against Baby- lon, to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of the LORD, The vengeance of His temple. 12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, Make the watch strong, Set the watchmen, prepare the am- bushes; For the LORD hath both devised and done That which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. I30 thou that dwellest upon many waters, Abundant in treasures, Thine end is come, The measure of thy covetousness 14The LORD of hosts hath sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm, And they shall lift up a shout against thee.
18He that hath made the earth by His power, That hath established the world by His wisdom, And hath stretched out the heavens by His discernment; 16At the sound of His giving a multi- tude of waters in the heavens, He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings at the time of the rain, And bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries; 17Every man is proved to be brutish for the knowledge — Every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image — That his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18They are vanity, a work of delu- sion; In the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19The portion of Jacob is not like these; For He is the former of all things, And [Israel] is the tribe of His in- heritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.
20Thou art My maul and weapons of war, And with thee will I shatter the nations, And with thee will I destroy king- doms; 21And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider, And with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth there- in: JEREMIAH 22And with thee will I shatter man And all the land of his dominion.
and woman, And with thee will I shatter the old man and the youth, And with thee will I shatter the young man and the maid; ^And with thee will I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with thee will I shatter the husbandman and his yoke of oxen.
And with thee will I shatter gov- ernors and deputies. 24And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea All their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight, Saith the LORD.
25Behold, I am against thee, 0 destroying mountain, saith the LORD, Which destroyest all the earth; And I will stretch out My hand upon thee, And roll thee down from the rocks, And will make thee a burnt moun- tain.
26And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, Nor a stone for foundations; But thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
27Set yp up a standard in the land, Blow the horn among the nations, Prepare the nations against her, Call together against her the king- doms of Ararat, Minni, and Ash- kenaz; Appoint a marshal against her; Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm. *sPrepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, The governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, 29And the land quaketh and is in pain; For the purposes of the LORD are performed against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. 30The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, They remain in their strongholds; Their might hath failed, they are become as women; Her dwelling-places are set on fire; Her bars $ro broken. 310ne post, 1j$lnneth to meet an- And one t9n "^Sger to meet an- other, ^ca*s To tell the*Kn % Babylon That his di^ ''fe taken on every quarter; 32And the fords are seized, And the castles they have burned with fire, And the men of war are affrighted.
ssFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a, threshing-floor At the time when it is trodden; Yet a little while, and the time of harvest Shall come for her. 34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Baby- lon hath devoured me, He hath crushed me, He hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me UD like a dragon, He hath filled his maw with my delicacies; He hath washed me clean. 36*The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon', Shall the Inhabitant of Zion say; JEREMIAH