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Isaiah 51 1 "Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance--all who seek the LORD! Consider the quarry from which you were mined, the rock from which you were cut!
Isaiah 51 2 Yes, think about your ancestors Abraham and Sarah, from whom you came. Abraham was alone when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation."
Isaiah 51 3 The LORD will comfort Israel again and make her deserts blossom. Her barren wilderness will become as beautiful as Eden--the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found there. Lovely songs of thanksgiving will fill the air.
Isaiah 51 4 "Listen to me, my people. Hear me, Israel, for my law will be proclaimed, and my justice will become a light to the nations.
Isaiah 51 5 My mercy and justice are coming soon. Your salvation is on the way. I will rule the nations. They will wait for me and long for my power.
Isaiah 51 6 Look up to the skies above, and gaze down on the earth beneath. For the skies will disappear like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing. The people of the earth will die like flies, but my salvation lasts forever. My righteous rule will never end!
Isaiah 51 7 "Listen to me, you who know right from wrong and cherish my law in your hearts. Do not be afraid of people's scorn or their slanderous talk.
Isaiah 51 8 For the moth will destroy them as it destroys clothing. The worm will eat away at them as it eats wool. But my righteousness will last forever. My salvation will continue from generation to generation."
Isaiah 51 9 Wake up, LORD! Robe yourself with strength! Rouse yourself as in the days of old when you slew Egypt, the dragon of the Nile.
Isaiah 51 10 Are you not the same today, the one who dried up the sea, making a path of escape when you saved your people?
Isaiah 51 11 Those who have been ransomed by the LORD will return to Jerusalem, singing songs of everlasting joy. Sorrow and mourning will disappear, and they will be overcome with joy and gladness.
Isaiah 51 12 "I, even I, am the one who comforts you. So why are you afraid of mere humans, who wither like the grass and disappear?
Isaiah 51 13 Yet you have forgotten the LORD, your Creator, the one who put the stars in the sky and established the earth. Will you remain in constant dread of human oppression? Will you continue to fear the anger of your enemies from morning till night?
Isaiah 51 14 Soon all you captives will be released! Imprisonment, starvation, and death will not be your fate!
Isaiah 51 15 For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea, causing its waves to roar. My name is the LORD Almighty.
Isaiah 51 16 And I have put my words in your mouth and hidden you safely within my hand. I set all the stars in space and established the earth. I am the one who says to Israel, `You are mine!'"
Isaiah 51 17 Wake up, wake up, O Jerusalem! You have drunk enough from the cup of the LORD's fury. You have drunk the cup of terror, tipping out its last drops.
Isaiah 51 18 Not one of your children is left alive to help you or tell you what to do.
Isaiah 51 19 These two things have been your lot: desolation and destruction, famine and war. And who is left to sympathize? Who is left to comfort you?
Isaiah 51 20 For your children have fainted and lie in the streets, helpless as antelopes caught in a net. The LORD has poured out his fury; God has rebuked them.
Isaiah 51 21 But now listen to this, you afflicted ones, who sit in a drunken stupor, though not from drinking wine.
Isaiah 51 22 This is what the Sovereign LORD, your God and Defender, says: "See, I am taking the terrible cup from your hands. You will drink no more of my fury. It is gone at last!
Isaiah 51 23 But I will put that cup into the hands of those who tormented you. I will give it to those who trampled you into the dust and walked on your backs."
Jeremiah 50 1 The LORD gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
Jeremiah 50 2 This is what the LORD says: "Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back! Raise a signal flag so everyone will know that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
Jeremiah 50 3 For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live in her again. Everything will be gone; both people and animals will flee.
Jeremiah 50 4 "Then the people of Israel and Judah will join together," says the LORD, "weeping and seeking the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 50 5 They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the LORD with an eternal covenant that will never again be broken.
Jeremiah 50 6 "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and cannot remember how to get back to the fold.
Jeremiah 50 7 All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, `We are allowed to attack them freely, for they have sinned against the LORD, their place of rest, the hope of their ancestors.'
Jeremiah 50 8 "But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Lead my people home again.
Jeremiah 50 9 For look, I am raising up an army of great nations from the north. I will bring them against Babylon to attack her, and she will be captured. The enemies' arrows will go straight to the mark; they will not miss!
Jeremiah 50 10 Babylonia will be plundered until the attackers are glutted with plunder," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 50 11 "You rejoice and are glad, you plunderers of my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
Jeremiah 50 12 But your homeland will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace. You will become the least of nations--a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.
Jeremiah 50 13 Because of the LORD's anger, Babylon will become a deserted wasteland. All who pass by will be horrified and will gasp at the destruction they see there.
Jeremiah 50 14 "Yes, prepare to attack Babylon, all you nations round about. Let your archers shoot at her. Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50 15 Shout against her from every side. Look! She surrenders! Her walls have fallen. The LORD has taken vengeance, so do not spare her. Do to her as she has done to others!
Jeremiah 50 16 Lead from Babylon all those who plant crops; send all the harvesters away. Let the captives escape the sword of the enemy and rush back to their own lands.
Jeremiah 50 17 "The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones."
Jeremiah 50 18 Therefore, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
Jeremiah 50 19 And I will bring Israel home again to her own land, to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan, and to be satisfied once more on the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
Jeremiah 50 20 In those days," says the LORD, "no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah, for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
Jeremiah 50 21 "Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Yes, march against Babylon, the land of rebels, a land that I will judge! Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 50 22 "Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.
Jeremiah 50 23 Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations!
Jeremiah 50 24 Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50 25 "The LORD has opened his armory and brought out weapons to vent his fury against his enemies. The terror that falls upon the Babylonians will be the work of the Sovereign LORD Almighty.
Jeremiah 50 26 Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!
Jeremiah 50 27 Even destroy her cattle--it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For the time has come for Babylon to be devastated.
Jeremiah 50 28 Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they declare in Jerusalem how the LORD our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.
Jeremiah 50 29 "Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 50 30 Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her warriors will all be killed," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 50 31 "See, I am your enemy, O proud people," says the Lord, the LORD Almighty. "Your day of reckoning has arrived.
Jeremiah 50 32 O land of pride, you will stumble and fall, and no one will raise you up. For I will light a fire in the cities of Babylon that will burn everything around them."
Jeremiah 50 33 And now the LORD Almighty says this: "The people of Israel and Judah have been wronged. Their captors hold them and refuse to let them go.
Jeremiah 50 34 But the one who redeems them is strong. His name is the LORD Almighty. He will defend them and give them rest again in Israel. But the people of Babylon--there will be no rest for them!
Jeremiah 50 35 "The sword of destruction will strike the Babylonians," says the LORD. "It will strike the people of Babylon--her princes and wise men, too.
Jeremiah 50 36 And when it strikes her wise counselors, they will become fools! When it strikes her mightiest warriors, panic will seize them!
Jeremiah 50 37 When it strikes her horses and chariots, her allies from other lands will become as weak as women. When it strikes her treasures, they all will be plundered.
Jeremiah 50 38 It will even strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them.
Jeremiah 50 39 "Soon this city of Babylon will be inhabited by ostriches and jackals. It will be a home for the wild animals of the desert. Never again will people live there; it will lie desolate forever.
Jeremiah 50 40 I will destroy it just as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns," says the LORD. "No one will live there anymore.
Jeremiah 50 41 "Look! A great army is marching from the north! A great nation and many kings are rising against you from far-off lands.
Jeremiah 50 42 They are fully armed for slaughter. They are cruel and show no mercy. As they ride forward, the noise of their army is like a roaring sea. They are marching in battle formation to destroy you, Babylon.
Jeremiah 50 43 The king of Babylon has received reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Fear and pain have gripped him, like that of a woman about to give birth.
Jeremiah 50 44 "I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Babylon from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?"
Jeremiah 50 45 Listen to the LORD's plans against Babylon and the land of the Babylonians. Even little children will be dragged off, and their homes will be empty.
Jeremiah 50 46 The earth will shake with the noise of Babylon's fall, and her cry of despair will be heard around the world.
Jeremiah 51 1 This is what the LORD says: "I will stir up a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Babylonia.
Jeremiah 51 2 Foreigners will come and winnow her, blowing her away as chaff. They will come from every side to rise against her in her day of trouble.
Jeremiah 51 3 Don't let the archers put on their armor or draw their bows. No one will be spared! Young and old alike will be completely destroyed.
Jeremiah 51 4 They will fall dead in the land of the Babylonians, slashed to death in her streets.
Jeremiah 51 5 For the LORD Almighty has not forsaken Israel and Judah. He is still their God, even though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel."
Jeremiah 51 6 Flee from Babylon! Save yourselves! Don't get trapped in her punishment! It is the LORD's time for vengeance; he will fully repay her.
Jeremiah 51 7 Babylon has been like a golden cup in the LORD's hands, a cup from which he made the whole earth drink and go mad.
Jeremiah 51 8 But now suddenly, Babylon, too, has fallen. Weep for her, and give her medicine. Perhaps she can yet be healed.
Jeremiah 51 9 We would have helped her if we could, but nothing can save her now. Let her go; abandon her. Return now to your own land, for her judgment will be so great it cannot be measured.
Jeremiah 51 10 The LORD has vindicated us. Come, let us announce in Jerusalem everything the LORD our God has done.
Jeremiah 51 11 Sharpen the arrows! Lift up the shields! For the LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes to march against Babylon and destroy her. This is his vengeance against those who desecrated his Temple.
Jeremiah 51 12 Raise the battle flag against Babylon! Reinforce the guard and station the watchmen. Prepare an ambush, for the LORD will fulfill all his plans against Babylon.
Jeremiah 51 13 You are a city rich with water, a great center of commerce, but your end has come. The thread of your life is cut.
Jeremiah 51 14 The LORD Almighty has taken this vow and has sworn to it by his own name: "Your cities will be filled with enemies, like fields filled with locusts, and they will lift their shouts of triumph over you."
Jeremiah 51 15 He made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom. He has stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
Jeremiah 51 16 When he speaks, there is thunder in the heavens. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Jeremiah 51 17 Compared to him, all people are foolish and have no knowledge at all! They make idols, but the idols will disgrace their makers, for they are frauds. They have no life or power in them.
Jeremiah 51 18 Idols are worthless; they are lies! The time is coming when they will all be destroyed.
Jeremiah 51 19 But the God of Israel is no idol! He is the Creator of everything that exists, including his people, his own special possession. The LORD Almighty is his name!
Jeremiah 51 20 "You are my battle-ax and sword," says the LORD. "With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.
Jeremiah 51 21 With you I will shatter armies, destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer.
Jeremiah 51 22 With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens.
Jeremiah 51 23 With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and rulers.
Jeremiah 51 24 "As you watch, I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51 25 "Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy," says the LORD. "I will raise my fist against you, to roll you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of rubble.
Jeremiah 51 26 You will be desolate forever. Even your stones will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51 27 Signal many nations to mobilize for war against Babylon. Sound the battle cry! Bring out the armies of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a leader, and bring a multitude of horses!
Jeremiah 51 28 Bring against her the armies of the kings of the Medes and their generals, and the armies of all the countries they rule.
Jeremiah 51 29 Babylon trembles and writhes in pain, for everything the LORD has planned against her stands unchanged. Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51 30 Her mightiest warriors no longer fight. They stay in their barracks. Their courage is gone. They have become as fearful as women. The invaders have burned the houses and broken down the city gates.
Jeremiah 51 31 Messengers from every side come running to the king to tell him all is lost!
Jeremiah 51 32 All the escape routes are blocked. The fortifications are burning, and the army is in panic.
Jeremiah 51 33 For the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Babylon is like wheat on a threshing floor, about to be trampled. In just a little while her harvest will begin."
Jeremiah 51 34 "King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and emptied out our strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.
Jeremiah 51 35 May Babylon be repaid for all the violence she did to us," say the people of Jerusalem. "May the people of Babylonia be paid in full for all the blood they spilled," says Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 51 36 The LORD says to Jerusalem, "I will be your lawyer to plead your case, and I will avenge you. I will dry up her river, her water supply,
Jeremiah 51 37 and Babylon will become a heap of rubble, haunted by jackals. It will be an object of horror and contempt, without a single person living there.
Jeremiah 51 38 "In their drunken feasts, the people of Babylon roar like lions.
Jeremiah 51 39 And while they lie inflamed with all their wine, I will prepare a different kind of feast for them. I will make them drink until they fall asleep, never again to waken," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51 40 "I will bring them like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and goats to be sacrificed.
Jeremiah 51 41 "How Babylon is fallen--great Babylon, praised throughout the earth! The world can scarcely believe its eyes at her fall!
Jeremiah 51 42 The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its waves.
Jeremiah 51 43 Her cities now lie in ruins; she is a dry wilderness where no one lives or even passes by.
Jeremiah 51 44 And I will punish Bel, the god of Babylon, and pull from his mouth what he has taken. The nations will no longer come and worship him. The wall of Babylon has fallen.
Jeremiah 51 45 "Listen, my people, flee from Babylon. Save yourselves! Run from the LORD's fierce anger.
Jeremiah 51 46 But do not panic when you hear the first rumor of approaching forces. For rumors will keep coming year by year. Then there will be a time of violence as the leaders fight against each other.
Jeremiah 51 47 For the time is surely coming when I will punish this great city and all her idols. Her whole land will be disgraced, and her dead will lie in the streets.
Jeremiah 51 48 The heavens and earth will rejoice, for out of the north will come destroying armies against Babylon," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51 49 "Just as Babylon killed the people of Israel and others throughout the world, so must her people be killed.
Jeremiah 51 50 Go, you who escaped the sword! Do not stand and watch--flee while you can! Remember the LORD, even though you are in a far-off land, and think about your home in Jerusalem."
Jeremiah 51 51 "We are ashamed," the people say. "We are insulted and disgraced because the LORD's Temple has been defiled by foreigners."
Jeremiah 51 52 "Yes," says the LORD, "but the time is coming when Babylon's idols will be destroyed. The groans of her wounded people will be heard throughout the land.
Jeremiah 51 53 Though Babylon reaches as high as the heavens, and though she increases her strength immeasurably, I will send enemies to plunder her," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51 54 Listen! Hear the cry of Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.
Jeremiah 51 55 For the LORD is destroying Babylon. He will silence her. Waves of enemies pound against her; the noise of battle rings through the city.
Jeremiah 51 56 Destroying armies come against Babylon. Her mighty men are captured, and their weapons break in their hands. For the LORD is a God who gives just punishment, and he is giving Babylon all she deserves.
Jeremiah 51 57 "I will make drunk her officials, wise men, rulers, captains, and warriors," says the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty. "They will fall asleep and never wake up again!"
Jeremiah 51 58 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "The wide walls of Babylon will be leveled to the ground, and her high gates will be burned. The builders from many lands have worked in vain, for their work will be destroyed by fire!"
Jeremiah 51 59 The prophet Jeremiah gave this message to Zedekiah's staff officer, Seraiah son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah. This was during the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign.
Jeremiah 51 60 Jeremiah had recorded on a scroll all the terrible disasters that would soon come upon Babylon.
Jeremiah 51 61 He said to Seraiah, "When you get to Babylon, read aloud everything on this scroll.
Jeremiah 51 62 Then say, `LORD, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. She will lie empty and abandoned forever.'
Jeremiah 51 63 Then, when you have finished reading the scroll, tie it to a stone, and throw it into the Euphrates River.
Jeremiah 51 64 Then say, `In this same way Babylon and her people will sink, never again to rise, because of the disasters I will bring upon her.'" This is the end of Jeremiah's messages.
Psalms 51 1 Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.
Psalms 51 2 Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin.
Psalms 51 3 For I recognize my shameful deeds--they haunt me day and night.
Psalms 51 4 Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.
Psalms 51 5 For I was born a sinner--yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Psalms 51 6 But you desire honesty from the heart, so you can teach me to be wise in my inmost being.
Psalms 51 7 Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Psalms 51 8 Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me--now let me rejoice.
Psalms 51 9 Don't keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt.
Psalms 51 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 51 11 Do not banish me from your presence, and don't take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalms 51 12 Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.
Psalms 51 13 Then I will teach your ways to sinners, and they will return to you.
Psalms 51 14 Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.
Psalms 51 15 Unseal my lips, O Lord, that I may praise you.
Psalms 51 16 You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought you a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
Psalms 51 17 The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalms 51 18 Look with favor on Zion and help her; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 51 19 Then you will be pleased with worthy sacrifices and with our whole burnt offerings; and bulls will again be sacrificed on your altar.
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