New American Standard Bible 2020

Jeremiah 51:54-59

54The 1sound 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 2noise vanish from her. And their 3waves will roar like many waters; The clamor of their voices 4sounds forth.56For the 5destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her warriors will be captured, Their 6bows shattered; For the Lord is a God of 7retribution, He will fully repay.57“I will 8make her leaders and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her officials, and her warriors, So that they will sleep a 9perpetual sleep and not wake up,” 10Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of armies. 58This is what the Lord of armies says: “The broad 11wall of Babylon will be completely demolished, And her high 12gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will 13labor for nothing, And the nations become 14exhausted only for fire.”

59The 15command that Jeremiah the prophet 16gave Seraiah the son of 17Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with 18Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (And Seraiah was quartermaster.)

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 51:54 Jer 48:3-5; 50:22, 46 ↩
2. Jeremiah 51:55 Or voice ↩
3. Jeremiah 51:55 Ps 18:4; 69:2; 124:2, 4, 5; Jer 51:42 ↩
4. Jeremiah 51:55 Lit is given ↩
5. Jeremiah 51:56 Jer 51:48, 53; Hab 2:8 ↩
6. Jeremiah 51:56 Ps 46:9; 76:3 ↩
7. Jeremiah 51:56 Deut 32:35; Ps 94:1, 2; Jer 51:6, 24 ↩
8. Jeremiah 51:57 Jer 25:27 ↩
9. Jeremiah 51:57 Ps 76:5, 6 ↩
10. Jeremiah 51:57 Jer 46:18; 48:15 ↩
11. Jeremiah 51:58 Jer 50:15 ↩
12. Jeremiah 51:58 Is 45:1, 2 ↩
13. Jeremiah 51:58 Hab 2:13 ↩
14. Jeremiah 51:58 Jer 9:5; 51:64; Lam 5:5 ↩
15. Jeremiah 51:59 Lit word ↩
16. Jeremiah 51:59 Lit commanded ↩
17. Jeremiah 51:59 Jer 32:12; 36:4; 45:1 ↩
18. Jeremiah 51:59 Jer 28:1; 52:1 ↩

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