137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated!
How blessed will be the one who repays you
for what you dished out to us!
137:9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies
and smashes them on a rock!
47:5 “Sit silently! Go to a hiding place,
O daughter of the Babylonians!
Indeed,
47:6 I was angry at my people;
I defiled my special possession
and handed them over to you.
You showed them no mercy;
you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.
47:7 You said,
‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’
You did not think about these things;
you did not consider how it would turn out.
47:8 So now, listen to this,
O one who lives so lavishly,
who lives securely,
who says to herself,
‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!
I will never have to live as a widow;
I will never lose my children.’
47:9 Both of these will come upon you
suddenly, in one day!
You will lose your children and be widowed.
You will be overwhelmed by these tragedies,
despite
and your numerous amulets.
50:33 The Lord who rules over all
“The people of Israel are oppressed.
So too are the people of Judah.
All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners.
They refuse to set them free.
50:34 But the one who will rescue them
He is known as the Lord who rules over all.
He will strongly
As a result
but trouble and turmoil
51:8 But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed.
Cry out in mourning over it!
Get medicine for her wounds!
Perhaps she can be healed!
51:9 Foreigners living there will say,
‘We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed.
Let’s leave Babylonia
For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions.
It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’
51:10 The exiles from Judah will say,
‘The Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us!
Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zion
what the Lord our God has done!’
51:24 “But I will repay Babylon
and all who live in Babylonia
for all the wicked things they did in Zion
right before the eyes of you Judeans,”
says the Lord.
2:1 (2:2) The watchmen of Nineveh shout:
“An enemy who will scatter you
“Guard
Watch the road!
Prepare yourselves for battle!
Muster your mighty strength!”
2:2 For the Lord will restore
as well as
though
and have destroyed their fields.
2:3 The shields of his warriors are dyed red;
the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments.
The metal fittings
like
the soldiers brandish
2:4 The chariots
they rush back and forth
they look
they dash here and there
2:5 The commander
they stumble
they rush to the city wall
and they set up
2:6 The sluice gates
the royal palace is deluged
2:7 Nineveh
her slave girls moan
2:8 Nineveh was like a pool
but now
she cries out:
but no one turns back.
2:9 Her conquerors cry out:
“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!”
There is no end to the treasure;
riches of every kind of precious thing.
2:10 Destruction, devastation, and desolation!
Their hearts faint,
their knees tremble,
each stomach churns,
2:11 Where now is the den of the lions,
the feeding place
where
and no one disturbed them?
2:12 The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed
and strangled prey to provide food
he filled
and his dens with torn flesh.
2:13 “I am against you!” declares
“I will burn your chariots
the sword will devour your young lions;
you will no longer prey upon the land;
the voices of your messengers
3:1 Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed!
She is full of lies;
she is filled with plunder;
she has hoarded her spoil!
3:2 The chariot drivers will crack their whips;
the chariot wheels will shake the ground;
the chariot horses
the war chariots
3:3 The charioteers
their swords
and their spears
There will be many people slain;
there will be piles of the dead,
and countless casualties
so many that people
3:4 “Because
a seductive mistress who practices sorcery,
who
and entices peoples by her sorcery
3:5 I am against you,” declares the Lord who commands armies.
“I will strip off your clothes!
I will show your nakedness to the nations
and your shame to the kingdoms;
3:6 I will pelt you with filth;
I will treat you with contempt;
I will make you a public spectacle.
3:7 Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;
they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated!
Who will lament for her?’
There will be no one to comfort you!”
3:8 You are no more secure
she was located on the banks of the Nile;
the waters surrounded her,
her
the water
3:9 Cush
Put and the Libyans
3:10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile;
even her infants were smashed to pieces
They cast lots
all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
3:11 You too will act like drunkards;
you will go into hiding;
you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
3:12 All your fortifications will be like fig trees
If they are shaken,
3:13 Your warriors will be like women in your midst;
the gates of your land will be wide open
fire will consume
3:14 Draw yourselves water for a siege!
Strengthen your fortifications!
Trample the mud
Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
3:15 There the fire will consume
the sword will cut you down;
it will devour
Multiply yourself
multiply yourself like the flying locust!
3:16 Increase
They are like
3:17 Your courtiers
your officials
They encamp in the walls on a cold day,
yet when the sun rises, they
and no one knows where they
3:18 Your shepherds
Your officers
Your people are scattered like sheep
and there is no one to regather them!
3:19 Your destruction is like an incurable wound;
your demise is like a fatal injury!
All who hear what has happened to you
for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
17:1 Then