English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 51, verse 29 in Mkjv Version

Jeremiah 51 : 1 (MKJV)

So says Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up a destroying wind against Babylon, and against those dwelling in the heart of My foes.

Jeremiah 51 : 2 (MKJV)

And I will send aliens to Babylon who will sift her and will empty her land. For in the day of trouble they shall be against her all around.

Jeremiah 51 : 3 (MKJV)

Do not let the treader fully tread his bow; nor lift himself up in his armor. And do not spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

Jeremiah 51 : 4 (MKJV)

So the dead shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, those thrust through in her streets.

Jeremiah 51 : 5 (MKJV)

For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken by his God, by Jehovah of Hosts, though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51 : 6 (MKJV)

Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and each man deliver his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; He will give to her a just reward.

Jeremiah 51 : 7 (MKJV)

Babylon has been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, which made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations rage.

Jeremiah 51 : 8 (MKJV)

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her; take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.

Jeremiah 51 : 9 (MKJV)

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her and let us go, each one into his own country; for her judgment reaches to the heavens and is lifted up to the skies.

Jeremiah 51 : 10 (MKJV)

Jehovah has brought forth our righteousness; come and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

Jeremiah 51 : 11 (MKJV)

Sharpen the arrows; gather the shields; Jehovah has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of His temple.

Jeremiah 51 : 12 (MKJV)

Set up the banner on the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up the watchmen; prepare the ambushes. For Jehovah has both planned and done that which He spoke against the people of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51 : 13 (MKJV)

O you who live on many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your unjust gain.

Jeremiah 51 : 14 (MKJV)

Jehovah of Hosts has sworn by Himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

Jeremiah 51 : 15 (MKJV)

He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Jeremiah 51 : 16 (MKJV)

When He utters His voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and He causes the mists to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with rain and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.

Jeremiah 51 : 17 (MKJV)

Every man is brutish in knowledge; every refiner is put to shame by idols. For his molded image is a lie, and no breath is in them.

Jeremiah 51 : 18 (MKJV)

They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their judgment they shall perish.

Jeremiah 51 : 19 (MKJV)

The Portion of Jacob is not like them; for He is the Former of all things, and Israel is the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 51 : 20 (MKJV)

You are My war-club and weapons of war; for with you I will shatter nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms.

Jeremiah 51 : 21 (MKJV)

And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider; and with you I will shatter the chariot and his rider.

Jeremiah 51 : 22 (MKJV)

Also with you I will shatter man and woman; and with you I will shatter old and young; and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl.

Jeremiah 51 : 23 (MKJV)

I will also shatter the shepherd and his flock with you. And with you I will shatter the farmer and his team; and with you I will shatter heads and rulers.

Jeremiah 51 : 24 (MKJV)

And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51 : 25 (MKJV)

Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says Jehovah, who destroys all the earth. And I will stretch out My hand on you and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.

Jeremiah 51 : 26 (MKJV)

And they shall not take a stone from you for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be a waste forever, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51 : 27 (MKJV)

Set up a banner in the land; blow a trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations against her. Call the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her; set a commander against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough locusts.

Jeremiah 51 : 28 (MKJV)

Consecrate nations against her, with the kings of the Medes, her governors and all her rulers, and all the land of his kingdom.

Jeremiah 51 : 29 (MKJV)

And the land shall tremble and writhe. For every purpose of Jehovah shall be done against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desert without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51 : 30 (MKJV)

The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting; they have remained in strongholds; their might has failed. They became like women; they have burned her houses; her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 51 : 31 (MKJV)

A runner shall run to meet a runner, and a herald to a herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is captured from end to end;

Jeremiah 51 : 32 (MKJV)

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

Jeremiah 51 : 33 (MKJV)

For so says Jehovah 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 (MKJV)

Nebuchadnezzar 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 jackal; he has filled his belly with good things; he has thrown me out;

Jeremiah 51 : 35 (MKJV)

the violence done to me and to my flesh shall be on Babylon; the dweller in Zion shall say. And, My blood shall be on the people of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say.

Jeremiah 51 : 36 (MKJV)

So Jehovah says this: 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 (MKJV)

And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51 : 38 (MKJV)

They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

Jeremiah 51 : 39 (MKJV)

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they may rejoice and sleep a never-ending sleep, and never awaken, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51 : 40 (MKJV)

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

Jeremiah 51 : 41 (MKJV)

How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

Jeremiah 51 : 42 (MKJV)

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

Jeremiah 51 : 43 (MKJV)

Her cities are a desert, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.

Jeremiah 51 : 44 (MKJV)

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; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

Jeremiah 51 : 45 (MKJV)

My people, go out of her midst; and let each man deliver his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51 : 46 (MKJV)

And let not your heart faint, nor fear the rumor that shall be heard in the land. The report shall come in a year. And after that a report shall come in another year; and violence shall be in the land, ruler against ruler.

Jeremiah 51 : 47 (MKJV)

So, behold, the days come that I will punish the idols of Babylon. And all her land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.

Jeremiah 51 : 48 (MKJV)

And the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall shout for Babylon; for the plunderers shall come to her from the north, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51 : 49 (MKJV)

As Babylon is to fall for the dead of Israel, so at Babylon the dead of all the earth shall fall.

Jeremiah 51 : 50 (MKJV)

You who have escaped the sword, go away; do not stand still. Remember Jehovah afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

Jeremiah 51 : 51 (MKJV)

We have turned pale because we have heard reproach; shame has covered our faces, for foreigners have come into the holy places of Jehovah's house.

Jeremiah 51 : 52 (MKJV)

So, behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will punish her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Jeremiah 51 : 53 (MKJV)

Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet plunderers shall come to her from Me, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 51 : 54 (MKJV)

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

Jeremiah 51 : 55 (MKJV)

because Jehovah is stripping Babylon, and the great voice will perish out of her. And her waves will roar like great waters; the noise of their voice is given,

Jeremiah 51 : 56 (MKJV)

because the ravager has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are captured. Every one of their bows is broken, for Jehovah, the God of vengeance, shall surely repay.

Jeremiah 51 : 57 (MKJV)

And I will make her rulers drunk, also her wise ones, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a never-ending sleep and not awaken, says the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

Jeremiah 51 : 58 (MKJV)

So says Jehovah of Hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be completely broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the people shall be in the fire, and they shall be weary.

Jeremiah 51 : 59 (MKJV)

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 Seraiah was a quiet prince.

Jeremiah 51 : 60 (MKJV)

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

Jeremiah 51 : 61 (MKJV)

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

Jeremiah 51 : 62 (MKJV)

then you shall say, O Jehovah, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be a ruin forever.

Jeremiah 51 : 63 (MKJV)

And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of Euphrates.

Jeremiah 51 : 64 (MKJV)

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