O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!
Jeremiah 25:14 - Revised Standard Version For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even them [the Chaldeans who enslaved other nations]; and I will recompense [all of] them according to their deeds and according to the work of their [own] hands. American Standard Version (1901) For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. Common English Bible Yes, many great nations and powerful kings will enslave them, and I will pay them back in full for what they have done and made with their hands. Catholic Public Domain Version For they have served them, though these were populous nations and great kings. And I will repay them according to their works and according to the deeds of their hands." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For they have served them, whereas they were many nations and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their hands. |
O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!
Hark, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The Lord of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land as male and female slaves; they will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.
“Hark, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord, rendering recompense to his enemies!
All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open to all the ways of men, rewarding every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings;
“Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a company of great nations, from the north country; and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
“Flee from the midst of Babylon, let every man save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance, the requital he is rendering her.
The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.