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Jeremiah 51:31

Tree of Life Version

One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell Babylon’s king that his city has been taken from end to end.

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At the king’s command, the couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials saying: “You men of Israel, turn back to Adonai, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

This decree was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed with the king’s ring, and sent on horseback by couriers who rode on the king’s horses specially bred for their speed.

The couriers that rode royal horses raced out, pressed on by the king’s command. The decree was also given out at the palace at Shushan.

“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away without seeing goodness.

Disaster on disaster is reported. So the whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly ravaged, my curtains in an instant.

“Declare it among the nations and proclaim! Raise a banner, announce, hide nothing! Say: ‘Babylon will be captured, Bel put to shame, Merodach dismayed, her images disgraced, her idols shattered!’

I set a snare for you, so you were caught, O Babylon, when you were unaware. You were found and also caught, because you challenged Adonai.

Babylon’s king heard news of them. His hands droop; anguish grabs him, agony like a woman in labor.

The fords have also been seized and the marshes burned with fire, so the warriors are in panic.

On that very night King Belshazzar of the Chaldeans was slain.




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