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Text -- Jeremiah 51:51-64 (NET)
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51:51 ‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted . Our faces show our disgrace . For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord’s temple .’
51:52 Yes , but the time will certainly come ,” says the Lord , “when I will punish her idols . Throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan .
51:53 Even if Babylon climbs high into the sky and fortifies her elevated stronghold , I will send destroyers against her,” says the Lord .
51:54 Cries of anguish will come from Babylon , the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians .
51:55 For the Lord is ready to destroy Babylon , and put an end to her loud noise . Their waves will roar like turbulent waters . They will make a deafening noise .
51:56 For a destroyer is attacking Babylon . Her warriors will be captured ; their bows will be broken . For the Lord is a God who punishes ; he pays back in full .
51:57 “I will make her officials and wise men drunk , along with her governors , leaders , and warriors . They will fall asleep forever and never wake up ,” says the King whose name is the Lord who rules over all .
51:58 This is what the Lord who rules over all says , “Babylon’s thick wall will be completely demolished . Her high gates will be set on fire . fire . The peoples strive for what does not satisfy . satisfy . The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed .”
51:59 This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah , son of Mahseiah , when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign . (Seraiah was a quartermaster .)
51:60 Jeremiah recorded on one scroll all the judgments that would come upon Babylon – all these prophecies written about Babylon .
51:61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah , “When you arrive in Babylon , make sure you read aloud all these prophecies .
51:62 Then say , ‘O Lord , you have announced that you will destroy this place so that no people or animals live in it any longer . Certainly it will lie desolate forever !’
51:63 When you finish reading this scroll aloud, tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates River.
51:64 Then say , ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint .’” The prophecies of Jeremiah end here .
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