< Jeremiah 51 >

1 thus to say LORD look! I to rouse upon Babylon and to(wards) to dwell Leb (Leb)-kamai spirit to ruin
THUS saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
2 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
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
3 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
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
4 and to fall: fall slain: killed in/on/with land: country/planet Chaldea and to pierce in/on/with outside her
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
5 for not forsaken Israel and Judah from God his from LORD Hosts for land: country/planet their to fill guilt (offering) from holy Israel
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
6 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
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
7 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
Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
8 suddenly to fall: fall Babylon and to break to wail upon her to take: take balsam to/for pain her perhaps to heal
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
9 (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
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
10 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
The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.
11 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
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
12 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
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 (to dwell *Qk) upon water many many treasure to come (in): come end your cubit unjust-gain your
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
14 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
The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
15 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
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
16 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
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
17 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
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18 vanity they(masc.) deed: work delusion in/on/with time punishment their to perish
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19 not like/as these portion Jacob for to form: formed [the] all he/she/it and tribe inheritance his LORD Hosts name his
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.
20 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
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
21 and to shatter in/on/with you horse and to ride his and to shatter in/on/with you chariot and to ride his
And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
22 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
With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
23 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
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
24 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
And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord.
25 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
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
26 and not to take: take from you stone to/for corner and stone to/for foundation for devastation forever: enduring to be utterance LORD
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the Lord.
27 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
Set ye 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 Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
28 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
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29 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
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 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
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31 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
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32 and [the] ford to capture and [obj] [the] pool to burn in/on/with fire and human [the] battle to dismay
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
33 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
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34 (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)
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
35 violence my and flesh my upon Babylon to say to dwell Zion and blood my to(wards) to dwell Chaldea to say Jerusalem
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36 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
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37 and to be Babylon to/for heap habitation jackal horror: appalled and hissing from nothing to dwell
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 together like/as lion to roar to growl like/as whelp lion
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39 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
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
40 to go down them like/as ram to/for to slaughter like/as ram with goat
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 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
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42 to ascend: rise upon Babylon [the] sea in/on/with crowd heap: wave his to cover
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43 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
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
44 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
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45 to come out: come from midst her people my and to escape man: anyone [obj] soul: life his from burning anger face: anger LORD
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.
46 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
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47 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
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48 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
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the Lord.
49 also Babylon to/for to fall: kill slain: killed Israel also to/for Babylon to fall: kill slain: killed all [the] land: country/planet
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
50 survivor from sword to go: went not to stand: stand to remember from distant [obj] LORD and Jerusalem to ascend: rise upon heart your
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 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
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.
52 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
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
53 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
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.
54 voice outcry from Babylon and breaking great: large from land: country/planet Chaldea
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
55 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
Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
56 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
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.
57 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
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
58 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
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
59 [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
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
60 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
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
61 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
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
62 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
Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
63 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
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
64 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
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

< Jeremiah 51 >