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Jeremiah 51:29

New American Bible - revised edition

The earth quakes and writhes, the Lord’s plan against Babylon is carried out, Turning the land of Babylon into a wasteland without inhabitants.

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When they see you they will stare, pondering over you: “Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms?

The earth will reel like a drunkard, sway like a hut; Its rebellion will weigh it down; it will fall, never to rise again.”

The Lord is truly God, he is the living God, the eternal King, Before whose anger the earth quakes, whose wrath the nations cannot endure.

Because of the Lord’s wrath it shall be uninhabited, become an utter wasteland; Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and hiss at all its wounds.

A sword upon the soothsayers, and they become fools! A sword upon the warriors, and they tremble;

The king of Babylon hears news of them, and his hands hang helpless; Anguish takes hold of him, like the pangs of a woman giving birth.

Therefore, hear the strategy of the Lord, which he has devised against Babylon; Hear the plans drawn up against the land of the Chaldeans: They shall be dragged away, even the smallest sheep; their own pasture aghast because of them.

At the cry “Babylon is captured!” the earth quakes; the outcry is heard among the nations.

They will not take from you a cornerstone, or a foundation stone; You shall remain ruins forever— oracle of the Lord.

Dedicate nations for war against her: the king of the Medes, Its governors and all its officers, every land in its domain.

Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; A place of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

Her cities have become wasteland, a parched and arid land Where no one lives, no one passes through.

From Dan is heard the snorting of horses; The neighing of stallions shakes the whole land. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and its inhabitants.

Before them the earth trembles; the heavens shake; Sun and moon are darkened, and the stars withhold their brightness.

Shall not the land tremble because of this, and all who dwell in it mourn? It will all rise up and toss like the Nile, and subside like the river of Egypt.

He cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become a haunt for demons. She is a cage for every unclean spirit, a cage for every unclean bird, [a cage for every unclean] and disgusting [beast].




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