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Jeremiah 51:56-58
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Jeremiah 51:56-58
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54-56 “But now listen! Do you hear it? A cry out of Babylon!
An unearthly wail out of Chaldea!
God is taking his wrecking bar to Babylon.
We’ll be hearing the last of her noise—
Death throes like the crashing of waves,
death rattles like the roar of cataracts.
The avenging destroyer is about to enter Babylon:
Her soldiers are taken, her weapons are trashed.
Indeed, God is a God who evens things out.
All end up with their just deserts.
57 “I’ll get them drunk, the whole lot of them—
princes, sages, governors, soldiers.
Dead drunk, they’ll sleep—and sleep and sleep . . .
and never wake up.” The King’s Decree.
His name? God-of-the-Angel-Armies!
58 God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks:
“The city walls of Babylon—those massive walls!—
will be flattened.
And those city gates—huge gates!—
will be set on fire.
The harder you work at this empty life,
the less you are.
Nothing comes of ambition like this
but ashes.”
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Jeremiah 51:56-58
New International Version
Jeremiah 51:56-58
New International Version
56 A destroyer(A) will come against Babylon;
her warriors will be captured,
and their bows will be broken.(B)
For the Lord is a God of retribution;
he will repay(C) in full.
57 I will make her officials(D) and wise(E) men drunk,(F)
her governors, officers and warriors as well;
they will sleep(G) forever and not awake,”
declares the King,(H) whose name is the Lord Almighty.
58 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
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