Jeremiah 51:39-57

39When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And 1make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may 2sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up,” declares the Lord.40“I will bring them down like 3lambs 4to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

41“How 56Sheshak has been captured, And 7the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!42The 89sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.43Her cities have become an 10object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which 11no man lives And through which no son of man passes.4412I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed 13come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer 14stream to him. Even the 15wall of Babylon has fallen down!

45“16Come forth from her midst, My people, And each of you 17save yourselves From the fierce anger of the Lord.46Now 18so that your heart does not grow faint, And you are not afraid at the 19report that will be heard in the land-- For the report will come 20one year, And after that 21another report in 22another year, And violence will be in the land With 23ruler against ruler--47Therefore behold, days are coming When I will punish the 24idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be 25put to shame And all her slain will fall in her midst.48Then 26heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, For 27the destroyers will come to her from the north,” Declares the Lord.

4928Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon 29the slain of all the earth have fallen.50You 30who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! 31Remember the Lord from afar, And let Jerusalem 32come to your mind.5133We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For 34aliens have entered The holy places of the Lord’s house.

52“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I will punish her 35idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.53Though Babylon should 36ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify 37her lofty stronghold, From 38Me destroyers will come to her,” declares the Lord.

54The 39sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!55For the Lord is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud 40noise vanish from her. And their 41waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices 42sounds forth.56For the 43destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their 44bows are shattered; For the Lord is a God of 45recompense, He will fully repay.57“I will 46make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a 47perpetual sleep and not wake up,” 48Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.