November
11th Jeremiah
51
Judgment on Babylon
1:
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and
against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me,
a destroying wind; 2:
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall
empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her
round about. 3:
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him
that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young
men; destroy ye utterly all her host. 4:
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that
are thrust through in her streets. 5:
For Israel hath 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. 6:
Flee out of the midst 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 unto her a recompence. 7:
Babylon hath 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. 8:
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for
her pain, if so she may be healed. 9:
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 reacheth
unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. 10:
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 11:
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath 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. 12:
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong,
set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both
devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of
Babylon. 13:
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine
end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. 14:
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill
thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout
against thee.
Praise
the Lord
15:
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by
his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
16:
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the
heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the
earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind
out of his treasures. 17:
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. 18:
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation
they shall perish. 19:
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.
Babylon
destroyed
20:
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break
in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21:
And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and
with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22:
With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee
will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid; 23:
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and
with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen;
and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 24:
And 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. 25:
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD,
which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon
thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt
mountain. 26:
And 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. 27:
Set ye 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 caterpillers. 28:
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. 29:
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. 30:
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained
in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they
have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. 31:
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one
end, 32:
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned
with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. 33:
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of
Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a
little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34:
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed
me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a
dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me
out. 35:
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the
inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,
shall Jerusalem say.
The
Lord will save Israel
36:
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and
take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her
springs dry. 37:
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an
astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. 38:
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lion's
whelps. 39:
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,
saith the LORD. 40:
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he
goats. 41:
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth
surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42:
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of
the waves thereof. 43:
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land
wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
44:
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his
mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow
together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 45:
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man
his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD. 46:
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be
heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that
in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler
against ruler. 47:
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the
graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and
all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 48:
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing
for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north,
saith the LORD. 49:
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon
shall fall the slain of all the earth.
The
Lord speaks – Jews Babylon
50:
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember
the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51:
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered
our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's
house. 52:
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do
judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan. 53:
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should
fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come
unto her, saith the LORD. 54:
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the
land of the Chaldeans: 55:
Because the LORD hath 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: 56:
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD
God of recompences shall surely requite. 57:
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, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
58:
Thus saith 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 labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall
be weary. 59:
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. 60:
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon
Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. 61:
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt
see, and shalt read all these words; 62:
Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast 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. 63:
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book,
that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates: 64:
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from
the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus
far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah
52 G. Prophesy fulfilled – Jerusalem destroyed Zedekiah the King
1:
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal
the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2:
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to
all that Jehoiakim had done. 3:
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and
Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
The
Fall of Jerusalem
4:
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth
month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched
against it, and built forts against it round about. 5:
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 6:
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine
was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of
the land. 7:
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went
forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two
walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the
city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. 8:
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered
from him. 9:
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon
to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. 10:
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he
slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11:
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound
him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till
the day of his death.
The
destruction of the Temple
12:
Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the
nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan,
captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into
Jerusalem, 13:
And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he
with fire: 14:
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the
guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. 15:
Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive
certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that
remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king
of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. 16:
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of
the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. 17:
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the
bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. 18:
The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls,
and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they
ministered, took they away. 19:
And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons,
and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of
gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the
captain of the guard away. 20:
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the
bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the
brass of all these vessels was without weight. 21:
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen
cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the
thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow. 22:
And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter
was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters
round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the
pomegranates were like unto these. 23:
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the
pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
The
deportation of Judah
24:
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: 25:
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the
men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person,
which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host,
who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people
of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. 26:
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them
to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 27:
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah
in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his
own land. 28:
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the
seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: 29:
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from
Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: 30:
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred
forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six
hundred. 31:
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and
twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the
first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of
Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, 32:
And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the
kings that were with him in Babylon, 33:
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread
before him all the days of his life. 34:
And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of
Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days
of his life.
Jeremiah records the
prophecy of the judgment of Babylon. The Lord will send a strong wind
that will bring destruction. The Lord will bring destruction in the
same form in which they will wage war. This describes the fall of a
restored Babylon during the tribulation. The Lord will break in
pieces everything and everyone in the land. Jeremiah again writes on
a scroll all of the evil deeds of Babylon so that the king of Babylon
will know why the city will be destroyed forever. Then when the King
has read the scroll he is to bind a stone to it and throw it into the
river Euphrates. In this way Babylon will sink without trace.
Zedekiah was an evil king who did evil in his day. his mothers name
is recorded as she is responsible for his upbringing. (This has been
described before by Jeremiah) the Babylonians carried away all the
treasure of the temple. Evil-merodach king of Babylon brought
Jehoiachin the king of Judah, and brought him out of the prison and
enthroned him above all the kings of Babylon. He was well fed all the
days of his life. And so the Lord disciplined Israel and judged the
nations in the time of Jeremiah.
- How will God destroy Babylon?
- How will God destroy Jerusalem?
- What happened to the Jews in Babylon?
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