Jeremiah 51 (NKJV)

¹ A destroying wind. ² They shall be against her all around. ³ Utterly destroy all her army. ⁴ And those thrust through in her streets. ⁵ Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.” ⁶ He shall recompense her. ⁷ Therefore the nations are deranged. ⁸ Perhaps she may be healed. ⁹ For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies. ¹⁰ Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God. ¹¹ The vengeance for His temple. ¹² What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. ¹³ The measure of your covetousness. ¹⁴ And they shall lift up a shout against you.” ¹⁵ And stretched out the heaven by His understanding. ¹⁶ He brings the wind out of His treasuries.” ¹⁷ And there is no breath in them. ¹⁸ In the time of their punishment they shall perish. ¹⁹ The Lord of hosts is His name. ²⁰ With you I will destroy kingdoms; ²¹ With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; ²² With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden; ²³ And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers. ²⁴ In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord. ²⁵ And make you a burnt mountain. ²⁶ But you shall be desolate forever,” says the Lord. ²⁷ Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts. ²⁸ All the land of his dominion. ²⁹ To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant. ³⁰ The bars of her gate are broken. ³¹ To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides; ³² And the men of war are terrified. ³³ And the time of her harvest will come.” ³⁴ He has spit me out. ³⁵ Jerusalem will say. ³⁶ I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. ³⁷ Without an inhabitant. ³⁸ They shall growl like lions’ whelps. ³⁹ And not awake,” says the Lord. ⁴⁰ Like rams with male goats. ⁴¹ How Babylon has become desolate among the nations! ⁴² She is covered with the multitude of its waves. ⁴³ Through which no son of man passes. ⁴⁴ Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall. ⁴⁵ And let everyone deliver himself from the fierce anger of the Lord. ⁴⁶ Ruler against ruler), ⁴⁷ And all her slain shall fall in her midst. ⁴⁸ For the plunderers shall come to her from the north,” says the Lord. ⁴⁹ So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall. ⁵⁰ And let Jerusalem come to your mind. ⁵¹ For strangers have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house. ⁵² And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan. ⁵³ Yet from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the Lord. ⁵⁴ And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans, ⁵⁵ And the noise of their voice is uttered, ⁵⁶ He will surely repay. ⁵⁷ Whose name is the Lord of hosts. ⁵⁸ And they shall be weary.” ⁵⁹ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster. ⁶⁰ So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. ⁶¹ And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words, ⁶² then you shall say, ‘O Lord, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’ ⁶³ Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. ⁶⁴ Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.