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Jeremiah 51:31

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

One messenger after another announces to the king, “Babylon has been captured!

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Hezekiah's messengers went everywhere in Israel and Judah with the following letter: People of Israel, now that you have survived the invasion of the Assyrian kings, it's time for you to turn back to the LORD God our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshipped. If you do this, he will stop being angry.

They were written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with his ring. Then they were taken by messengers who rode the king's finest and fastest horses.

Then the king ordered his messengers to take their fastest horses and deliver the law as quickly as possible to every province. When Mordecai left, he was wearing clothes fit for a king. He wore blue and white robes, a large gold crown, and a cape made of fine linen and purple cloth. After the law was announced in Susa, everyone shouted and cheered,

My life is speeding by, without a hope of happiness.

I see the enemy defeating us time after time, leaving everything in ruins. Even my own home is destroyed in a moment.

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

Ever since your king heard about this army, he has been weak with fear; he twists and turns in pain like a woman giving birth.

The enemy now controls the river crossings! The marshes are on fire! Your army has panicked!”

That same night, the king was killed.




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