1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land
2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard;
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward,
6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land
9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of
13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but
14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that
15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle
17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away:
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall
20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how
25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the
26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses:
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her
31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise
33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he
35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation,
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will
43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands
44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and