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Jeremiah 51:1

Good News Translation

The Lord says, “I am bringing a destructive wind against Babylonia and its people.

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The Lord will cause the emperor to hear a rumor that will make him go back to his own country, and the Lord will have him killed there.”

Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy are those who pay you back for what you have done to us—

I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place on that day when I, the Lord Almighty, show my anger.

You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty.

This is a message about Babylonia. Like a whirlwind sweeping across the desert, disaster will come from a terrifying land.

The Lord says, “Babylon, come down from your throne, and sit in the dust on the ground. You were once like a virgin, a city unconquered, but you are soft and delicate no longer! You are now a slave!

His anger is a storm, a furious wind that will rage over the heads of the wicked,

I will make winds blow against Elam from all directions, and I will scatter her people everywhere, until there is no country where her refugees have not gone.

The Lord says, “Attack the people of Merathaim and of Pekod. Kill and destroy them. Do everything I command you. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Babylonia, you fought against me, and you have been caught in the trap I set for you, even though you did not know it.

“Tell the archers to attack Babylon. Send out everyone who knows how to use the bow and arrow. Surround the city and don't let anyone escape. Pay it back for all it has done, and treat it as it has treated others, because it acted with pride against me, the Holy One of Israel.

The Lord Almighty says, “The people of Israel and of Judah are oppressed. All who captured them are guarding them closely and will not let them go.

I am going to stir up a group of strong nations in the north and make them attack Babylonia. They will line up in battle against the country and conquer it. They are skillful hunters, shooting arrows that never miss the mark.

Even if Babylon could climb to the sky and build a strong fortress there, I would still send people to destroy it. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

I wrote in a book an account of all the destruction that would come on Babylonia, as well as all these other things about Babylonia.

But angry hands pulled it up by the roots and threw it to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. Its branches were broken off; they dried up and were burned.

Even though Israel flourishes like weeds, I will send a hot east wind from the desert, and it will dry up their springs and wells. It will take away everything of value.

Does the war trumpet sound in a city without making the people afraid? Does disaster strike a city unless the Lord sends it?

Anyone who strikes you strikes what is most precious to me.” So the Lord Almighty sent me with this message for the nations that had plundered his people:

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?”




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