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Jeremiah 51:1

Contemporary English Version 1995

I, the Lord, am sending a wind to destroy the people of Babylonia and Babylon, its capital.

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Isn't the whole city frightened when the trumpet signals an attack? Isn't the Lord the one who brings disaster on a city?

No matter if you prosper more than the other tribes, I, the Lord, will wipe you out, just as a scorching desert wind dries up streams of water. I will take away your precious treasures.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, “Saul! Saul! Why are you so cruel to me?”

Then the glorious Lord All-Powerful ordered me to say to the nations that had raided and robbed Zion: Zion is as precious to the Lord as are his eyes. Whatever you do to Zion, you do to him.

But in anger, I pulled her up by the roots and threw her to the ground, where the scorching desert wind dried out her fruit. Her strong branches wilted and burned up.

You Babylonians were cruel to Israel and Judah. You took them captive, and now you refuse to let them go.

Attack Babylon, enemy archers; set up camp around the city, and don't let anyone escape. It challenged me, the holy God, so do to it what it did to other cities.

Babylonia challenged me, the Lord God All-Powerful, but that nation doesn't know it is caught in a trap that I set.

The Lord said: I have told the enemies of Babylonia, “Attack the people of Merathaim and Pekod. Kill them all! Destroy their possessions!”

In the north I am bringing great nations together. They will attack Babylon and capture it. The arrows they shoot are like the best soldiers, always finding their target.

Enemies will attack from all directions, and you will be led captive to every nation on earth.

I will upset him with rumors about what's happening in his own country. He will go back, and there I will make him die a violent death.

Babylon, you are doomed! I pray the Lord's blessings on anyone who punishes you for what you did to us.

They are evil! So in my anger I will strike them like a violent storm.

I, the Lord All-Powerful, am terribly angry— I will make the sky tremble and the earth shake loose.

I'll be above the clouds, just like God Most High.”

This is a message about a desert beside the sea: Enemies from a hostile nation attack like a whirlwind from the Southern Desert.

City of Babylon, You are delicate and untouched, but that will change. Surrender your royal power and sit in the dirt.

Although Babylon's walls reach to the sky, the army I send will destroy that city. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Before they left, I wrote on a scroll all the terrible things that would happen to Babylon.




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