English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 51, verse 14 in Akjv Version

Jeremiah 51 : 1 (AKJV)

Thus said the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the middle of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

Jeremiah 51 : 2 (AKJV)

And will send to Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

Jeremiah 51 : 3 (AKJV)

Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifts himself up in his brigandine: and spare you not her young men; destroy you utterly all her host.

Jeremiah 51 : 4 (AKJV)

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

Jeremiah 51 : 5 (AKJV)

For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51 : 6 (AKJV)

Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

Jeremiah 51 : 7 (AKJV)

Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

Jeremiah 51 : 8 (AKJV)

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Jeremiah 51 : 9 (AKJV)

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

Jeremiah 51 : 10 (AKJV)

The LORD has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 51 : 11 (AKJV)

Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Jeremiah 51 : 12 (AKJV)

Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD has both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51 : 13 (AKJV)

O you that dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, and the measure of your covetousness.

Jeremiah 51 : 14 (AKJV)

The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

Jeremiah 51 : 15 (AKJV)

He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

Jeremiah 51 : 16 (AKJV)

When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth: he makes lightning with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

Jeremiah 51 : 17 (AKJV)

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 51 : 18 (AKJV)

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 51 : 19 (AKJV)

The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 51 : 20 (AKJV)

You are my battle ax and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms;

Jeremiah 51 : 21 (AKJV)

And with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

Jeremiah 51 : 22 (AKJV)

With you also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces old and young; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

Jeremiah 51 : 23 (AKJV)

I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

Jeremiah 51 : 24 (AKJV)

And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 51 : 25 (AKJV)

Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which destroy all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

Jeremiah 51 : 26 (AKJV)

And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 51 : 27 (AKJV)

Set you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars.

Jeremiah 51 : 28 (AKJV)

Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

Jeremiah 51 : 29 (AKJV)

And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51 : 30 (AKJV)

The mighty men of Babylon have declined to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might has failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 51 : 31 (AKJV)

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

Jeremiah 51 : 32 (AKJV)

And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

Jeremiah 51 : 33 (AKJV)

For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Jeremiah 51 : 34 (AKJV)

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon, he has filled his belly with my delicates, he has cast me out.

Jeremiah 51 : 35 (AKJV)

The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

Jeremiah 51 : 36 (AKJV)

Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

Jeremiah 51 : 37 (AKJV)

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51 : 38 (AKJV)

They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

Jeremiah 51 : 39 (AKJV)

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 51 : 40 (AKJV)

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

Jeremiah 51 : 41 (AKJV)

How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Jeremiah 51 : 42 (AKJV)

The sea is come up on Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Jeremiah 51 : 43 (AKJV)

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

Jeremiah 51 : 44 (AKJV)

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Jeremiah 51 : 45 (AKJV)

My people, go you out of the middle of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Jeremiah 51 : 46 (AKJV)

And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Jeremiah 51 : 47 (AKJV)

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment on the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the middle of her.

Jeremiah 51 : 48 (AKJV)

Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come to her from the north, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 51 : 49 (AKJV)

As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

Jeremiah 51 : 50 (AKJV)

You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Jeremiah 51 : 51 (AKJV)

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

Jeremiah 51 : 52 (AKJV)

Why, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will do judgment on her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Jeremiah 51 : 53 (AKJV)

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come to her, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 51 : 54 (AKJV)

A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

Jeremiah 51 : 55 (AKJV)

Because the LORD has spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

Jeremiah 51 : 56 (AKJV)

Because the spoiler is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.

Jeremiah 51 : 57 (AKJV)

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, said the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 51 : 58 (AKJV)

Thus said the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

Jeremiah 51 : 59 (AKJV)

The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

Jeremiah 51 : 60 (AKJV)

So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

Jeremiah 51 : 61 (AKJV)

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, and shall see, and shall read all these words;

Jeremiah 51 : 62 (AKJV)

Then shall you say, O LORD, you have spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

Jeremiah 51 : 63 (AKJV)

And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of Euphrates:

Jeremiah 51 : 64 (AKJV)

And you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring on her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.