Jeremiah 51
1 Yahweh says: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
thus to say LORD look! I to rouse upon Babylon and to(wards) to dwell Leb (Leb)-kamai spirit to ruin
2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who will winnow her. They will empty her land; for in the day of trouble they will be against her all around.
and to send: depart to/for Babylon be a stranger and to scatter her and to empty [obj] land: country/planet her for to be upon her from around: side in/on/with day distress: harm
3 Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!
not to tread (to tread *QK) [the] to tread bow his and not to ascend: rise in/on/with armor his and not to spare to(wards) youth her to devote/destroy all army her
4 They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
and to fall: fall slain: killed in/on/with land: country/planet Chaldea and to pierce in/on/with outside her
5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
for not forsaken Israel and Judah from God his from LORD Hosts for land: country/planet their to fill guilt (offering) from holy Israel
6 “Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity, for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
to flee from midst Babylon and to escape man: anyone soul: life his not to silence: destroyed in/on/with iniquity: punishment her for time vengeance he/she/it to/for LORD recompense he/she/it to complete to/for her
7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
cup gold Babylon in/on/with hand LORD be drunk all [the] land: country/planet from wine her to drink nation upon so to be foolish nation
8 Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.
suddenly to fall: fall Babylon and to break to wail upon her to take: take balsam to/for pain her perhaps to heal
9 “We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
(to heal *Qk) [obj] Babylon and not to heal to leave: forsake her and to go: went man: anyone to/for land: country/planet his for to touch to(wards) [the] heaven justice: judgement her and to lift: raise till cloud
10 ‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness. Come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
to come out: send LORD [obj] righteousness our to come (in): come and to recount in/on/with Zion [obj] deed: work LORD God our
11 “Make the arrows sharp! Hold the shields firmly! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
to purify [the] arrow to fill [the] shield to rouse LORD [obj] spirit king Mede for upon Babylon plot his to/for to ruin her for vengeance LORD he/she/it vengeance temple his
12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
to(wards) wall Babylon to lift: raise ensign to strengthen: strengthen [the] custody to arise: establish to keep: guard to establish: prepare [the] to ambush for also to plan LORD also to make: do [obj] which to speak: speak to(wards) to dwell Babylon
13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
(to dwell *Qk) upon water many many treasure to come (in): come end your cubit unjust-gain your
14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, ‘Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts, and they will lift up a shout against you.’
to swear LORD Hosts in/on/with soul: myself his that if: except if: except to fill you man like/as locust and to sing upon you shout
15 “He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.
to make land: country/planet in/on/with strength his to establish: make world in/on/with wisdom his and in/on/with understanding his to stretch heaven
16 When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
to/for voice to give: cry out he crowd water in/on/with heaven and to ascend: rise mist from end land: country/planet lightning to/for rain to make and to come out: send spirit: breath from treasure his
17 “Every man has become stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image, for his molten images are falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
be brutish all man from knowledge be ashamed all to refine from idol for deception drink offering his and not spirit: breath in/on/with them
18 They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation, they will perish.
vanity they(masc.) deed: work delusion in/on/with time punishment their to perish
19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he formed all things, including the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
not like/as these portion Jacob for to form: formed [the] all he/she/it and tribe inheritance his LORD Hosts name his
20 “You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.
war-club you(m. s.) to/for me article/utensil battle and to shatter in/on/with you nation and to ruin in/on/with you kingdom
21 With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.
and to shatter in/on/with you horse and to ride his and to shatter in/on/with you chariot and to ride his
22 With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.
and to shatter in/on/with you man and woman and to shatter in/on/with you old and youth and to shatter in/on/with you youth and virgin
23 With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies.
and to shatter in/on/with you to pasture and flock his and to shatter in/on/with you farmer and pair his and to shatter in/on/with you governor and ruler
24 “I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
and to complete to/for Babylon and to/for all to dwell Chaldea [obj] all distress: evil their which to make: do in/on/with Zion to/for eye your utterance LORD
25 “Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says Yahweh, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.
look! I to(wards) you mountain: mount [the] destruction utterance LORD [the] to ruin [obj] all [the] land: country/planet and to stretch [obj] hand my upon you and to roll you from [the] crag and to give: make you to/for mountain: mount fire
26 They won’t take a cornerstone from you, nor a stone for foundations; but you will be desolate forever,” says Yahweh.
and not to take: take from you stone to/for corner and stone to/for foundation for devastation forever: enduring to be utterance LORD
27 “Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the swarming locusts!
to lift: raise ensign in/on/with land: country/planet to blow trumpet in/on/with nation to consecrate: prepare upon her nation to hear: proclaim upon her kingdom Ararat Minni and Ashkenaz to reckon: overseer upon her official to ascend: attack horse like/as locust rough
28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion!
to consecrate: prepare upon her nation [obj] king Mede [obj] governor her and [obj] all ruler her and [obj] all land: country/planet dominion his
29 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
and to shake [the] land: country/planet and to twist: writh in pain for to arise: establish upon Babylon plot LORD to/for to set: make [obj] land: country/planet Babylon to/for horror: destroyed from nothing to dwell
30 The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
to cease mighty man Babylon to/for to fight to dwell in/on/with stronghold be dry might their to be to/for woman to kindle tabernacle her to break bar her
31 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.
to run: run to/for to encounter: meet to run: run to run: run and to tell to/for to encounter: meet to tell to/for to tell to/for king Babylon for to capture city his from end
32 So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”
and [the] ford to capture and [obj] [the] pool to burn in/on/with fire and human [the] battle to dismay
33 For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
for thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel daughter Babylon like/as threshing floor time to tread her still little and to come (in): come time [the] harvest to/for her
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
(to eat me to confuse me *QK) Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon (to set me *QK) article/utensil vain (to swallow up me *QK) like/as serpent: monster to fill belly his from delicacy my (to wash me *QK)
35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.
violence my and flesh my upon Babylon to say to dwell Zion and blood my to(wards) to dwell Chaldea to say Jerusalem
36 Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
to/for so thus to say LORD look! I to contend [obj] strife your and to avenge [obj] vengeance your and to dry [obj] sea her and to wither [obj] fountain her
37 Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
and to be Babylon to/for heap habitation jackal horror: appalled and hissing from nothing to dwell
38 They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
together like/as lion to roar to growl like/as whelp lion
39 When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
in/on/with to warm they to set: make [obj] feast their and be drunk them because to exult and to sleep sleep forever: enduring and not to awake utterance LORD
40 “I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
to go down them like/as ram to/for to slaughter like/as ram with goat
41 “How Sheshach is taken! How the praise of the whole earth is seized! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
how? to capture Babylon and to capture praise all [the] land: country/planet how? to be to/for horror: appalled Babylon in/on/with nation
42 The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
to ascend: rise upon Babylon [the] sea in/on/with crowd heap: wave his to cover
43 Her cities have become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells. No son of man passes by it.
to be city her to/for horror: appalled land: country/planet dryness and plain land: country/planet not to dwell in/on/with them all man and not to pass in/on/with them son: child man
44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.
and to reckon: punish upon Bel in/on/with Babylon and to come out: send [obj] swallowing his from lip his and not to flow to(wards) him still nation also wall Babylon to fall: fall
45 “My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.
to come out: come from midst her people my and to escape man: anyone [obj] soul: life his from burning anger face: anger LORD
46 Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
and lest be tender heart your and to fear in/on/with tidings [the] to hear: hear in/on/with land: country/planet and to come (in): come in/on/with year [the] tidings and after him in/on/with year [the] tidings and violence in/on/with land: country/planet and to rule upon to rule
47 Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her.
to/for so behold day to come (in): come and to reckon: punish upon idol Babylon and all land: country/planet her be ashamed and all slain: killed her to fall: kill in/on/with midst her
48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, will sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers will come to her from the north,” says Yahweh.
and to sing upon Babylon heaven and land: country/planet and all which in/on/with them for from north to come (in): come to/for her [the] to ruin utterance LORD
49 “As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so the slain of all the land will fall at Babylon.
also Babylon to/for to fall: kill slain: killed Israel also to/for Babylon to fall: kill slain: killed all [the] land: country/planet
50 You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”
survivor from sword to go: went not to stand: stand to remember from distant [obj] LORD and Jerusalem to ascend: rise upon heart your
51 “We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
be ashamed for to hear: hear reproach to cover shame face our for to come (in): come be a stranger upon sanctuary house: temple LORD
52 “Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded will groan.
to/for so behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to reckon: punish upon idol her and in/on/with all land: country/planet her to groan slain: wounded
53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.
for to ascend: rise Babylon [the] heaven and for to gather/restrain/fortify height strength her from with me to come (in): come to ruin to/for her utterance LORD
54 “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
voice outcry from Babylon and breaking great: large from land: country/planet Chaldea
55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice! Their waves roar like many waters. The noise of their voice is uttered.
for to ruin LORD [obj] Babylon and to perish from her voice great: large and to roar heap: wave their like/as water many to give: cry out roar voice their
56 For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of retribution. He will surely repay.
for to come (in): come upon her upon Babylon to ruin and to capture mighty man her to to be dismayed bow their for God recompense LORD to complete to complete
57 I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
and be drunk ruler her and wise her governor her and ruler her and mighty man her and to sleep sleep forever: enduring and not to awake utterance [the] king LORD Hosts name his
58 Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
thus to say LORD Hosts wall Babylon [the] broad: wide to strip to strip and gate her [the] high in/on/with fire to kindle and be weary/toil people in/on/with sufficiency vain and people in/on/with sufficiency fire and to faint
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief quartermaster.
[the] word which to command Jeremiah [the] prophet [obj] Seraiah son: child Neriah son: child Mahseiah in/on/with to go: went he with Zedekiah king Judah Babylon in/on/with year [the] fourth to/for to reign him and Seraiah ruler resting
60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
and to write Jeremiah [obj] all [the] distress: harm which to come (in): come to(wards) Babylon to(wards) scroll: book one [obj] all [the] word [the] these [the] to write to(wards) Babylon
61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words,
and to say Jeremiah to(wards) Seraiah like/as to come (in): come you Babylon and to see: see and to call: read out [obj] all [the] word [the] these
62 and say, ‘Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that no one will dwell in it, neither man nor animal, but that it will be desolate forever.’
and to say LORD you(m. s.) to speak: speak to(wards) [the] place [the] this to/for to cut: eliminate him to/for lest to be in/on/with him to dwell to/for from man and till animal for devastation forever: enduring to be
63 It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
and to be like/as to end: finish you to/for to call: read out [obj] [the] scroll: book [the] this to conspire upon him stone and to throw him to(wards) midst Euphrates
64 Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
and to say thus to sink Babylon and not to arise: rise from face: because [the] distress: harm which I to come (in): bring upon her and to faint till here/thus word Jeremiah
