Jeremiah 51:1-64 Babylon Shall Sink & Not Rise Again

 

Babylon Shall Sink & Not Rise Again

Jeremiah 51:1-64                               The Book of Jeremiah [in Smaller Chunks]

The Lord says [this; Look,] I will raise up a destroying wind against: Babylon & [those who] dwell in the midst of [those who] rise up against Me. [2 Kings 19:7 [Look,] I will send a blast [of wind] upon him & he shall hear a rumour & shall return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.]

And [I'll] send fanners to Babylon, [who] shall fan her & shall empty her land [like wheat is separated from the hull that blows away.] [Those] against her shall [surround around] her. Let the archer bend his bow, against him, who bends & against him, [who magnifies] himself in his [armor.]

And [don't] you spare her young men & you [shall totally] destroy all her [army.] [Like this,] the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans & [those who] are thrust through [shall fall] in her streets. For [neither] Israel, nor Judah, have been [abandoned] by his God, the Lord of Hosts, [although] their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Flee out of the midst of Babylon & every man deliver his [life.] [Don't] be cut off in her [sinfulness;] for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance & He will [give repayment] to her. Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine, therefore the nations are [insane.]

[Jeremiah 25:15-16 The Lord God of Israel [said this] to me, Take the wine cup of this fury [from] My hand & cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it. And they shall drink, be [shaken] & be [insane,] because of the sword that I will send among them.]

Babylon [has] suddenly fallen & [is] destroyed. Howl for her & take balm for her pain, [in case] she may be healed. [Revelation 14:8 And another Angel followed there, saying, Babylon [has] fallen, that great city [has fallen,] because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her [adultery, a.k.a. unfaithfulness.]

We would have healed Babylon, but she isn't healed. Abandon her & let's everyone go into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven & is lifted up, even to the skies. [Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into 3 parts. And the cities of the nation fell. And great Babylon [was remembered] to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath, before God.]

The Lord has brought [out] our righteousness. Come & let's declare in Zion, the work of the Lord our God. [Micah 7:9 I will [endure] the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against HIm, until He [pleads] my [case & carries out justice] for me. He will bring me [out] to the light & I shall [see] His righteousness.]

The Lord has raised up the spirit of the [Medes'] kings: for His [plan] against Babylon, to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord & the vengeance of His temple. Gather the shield & make the arrows bright [red.] [2 Kings 21:4-7 And he built altars in the [Lord's] house, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem I will put My Name.

And he built altars for all the [stars & constellations] of heaven, in the 2 courts of the Lord's house. And he made his son pass through the fire & observed times, [a.k.a. astrology & horoscopes,] used enchantments, dealt with familiar spirits, [a.k.a. contacting the dead,] & dealt with wizards.

He [brought about] much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. And he [put a carved] image [from] the grove, [into] the [Lord's] house, of which the Lord said to David & to Solomon, his son, I will put My Name in this house forever & in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.]

[Put] up the [banner] upon the walls of Babylon & [strengthen] the watch. Set up [guards] & prepare the ambushes: for the Lord has both [planned] & [accomplished what] He spoke against the [residents] of Babylon.

Your end [has] come for the [amount] of your [greed,] O you, [who] dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures. The Lord of Hosts has Himself sworn, saying, Surely, I will fill you with [many] men, [like] caterpillars. And they shall lift up a shout against you.

[Jeremiah 49:13 For I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a [disgrace, a [wasteland] & a curse. And all [its] cities shall [continually] be [wastelands.]

By His power, He has made the earth & He has established the world by His wisdom & has stretched out the heaven by His understanding. When He utters His voice, there [are] a multitude of waters in the heavens & He causes the vapors to [go up] from the ends of the earth, [a.k.a. evaporation.]

He makes [lightning] with rain & brings forth the wind out of His treasures. [In comparison to] His knowledge, every man is [ignorant.] Every [blacksmith] is [confused] by the [carved] image: for his [molded] image is falsehood & there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors.

In the time of their visitation, [a.k.a. punishment,] they shall perish. The portion of Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel,] isn't like them. For He is the [Maker] of all things & Israel is the [tribe] of His inheritance. The Lord of Hosts is His Name.

You [are] My battle ax & weapons of war. For with you, I will: break the nations in pieces, [a.k.a. shatter.] I will destroy kingdoms; I will break in pieces the horse & [its] rider; I will break in pieces man & woman; old & young; & young man & [maiden.]

Also, with you, I will break in pieces the shepherd & his flock; the [farmer] & his yoke of oxen; captains & rulers, [a.k.a. governors.] And I will [repay] Babylon & all the [residents] of Chaldea, [for] all their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight, says the Lord.

The Lord says, [Look,] O destroying mountain, [that] destroys all the earth, I Am against you. And I will stretch out [My] hand upon you & roll you down from the rocks & will make you a burnt mountain. And they shall not take [from] you a stone; for a corner, nor for foundations.

But you shall be desolate forever, says the Lord. [Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from the [furthest] border & open her storehouses. Cast her up [like ruinous] heaps & [totally] destroy her. Let nothing of her be left.]

[Put] your [banner] in the land & blow the trumpet among the nations. Appoint a captain & prepare the nations against her & call together the kingdoms of: Ararat; Minni; & Ashchenaz against her. Cause [many] horses to come up, [like] the rough caterpillars.

Prepare against her the nations the Medes' kings & [its:] captains, rulers & all the land of his [kingdom.] And the land shall tremble [with] sorrow. For every [plan] of the Lord, to make the land of Babylon [desolate,] without inhabitants, shall be [accomplished] against Babylon.

The mighty men of Babylon have [refrained from fighting.] They have remained in their [strongholds.] Their [strength] has failed & they [have become like] women. They have burned [Babylon's] dwelling places & her [gates'] bars are broken.

[Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground. He has destroyed & broken her bars & her king & her princes are among the Gentiles. The Law is no [longer] [used] & also, her prophets find no vision from the Lord.]

One [postman] shall run to meet another & one messenger to meet another, to [declare] to [Babylon's] king, that his city is [captured on all sides] & the [passageways] are [blocked.] They have burned the reeds with fire & the men of war are [frightened.]

For the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says [this;] The daughter of Babylon is like a [floor for threshing.] It is time to thresh her. [Still,] a little while & the time of her harvest shall come.

Nebuchadrezzar, [a.k.a. Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon's] king, has devoured me, crushed me & has made me an empty vessel & he, like a dragon, has swallowed me up. He has filled his [stomach] with my [delicacies,] & he has [thrown] me [up.]

The [residents] of Zion shall say, The violence done to me & my flesh shall be upon Babylon. Jerusalem shall say, My blood [shed] shall be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea. Therefore, the Lord says [this; Watch,] I will plead your [case] & take vengeance for you.

And I will dry up her sea & make her springs dry. And Babylon shall become [ruinous] heaps, a dwelling place for [jackals], an astonishment & [hissed at,] without an inhabitant.

They shall roar together like lions. They shall [growl like] lions' [cubs.] The Lord says, In their [fury,] I will make their feasts & I will make them [drunk, so] that they may rejoice & sleep a [continual] sleep & not wake [up.]

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with [male] goats. How Sheshack is [captured!] How surprised, the praise of the whole earth is! How Babylon [has] become an astonishment among the nations! [Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' [excellence,] shall be [like] when God overthrew Sodom & Gomorrah.]

The sea [has] come up upon Babylon & she is covered with [a] multitude of [its] waves. Her cities are [desolate,] a dry wilderness & a land [in which] no man dwells, & neither does any son of man pass by [there.]

And I will punish Bel in Babylon & I will bring out of his mouth, [what] he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together to him anymore. [Yes,] the Wall of Babylon shall fall.

[Jeremiah 50:2 [Put] up a [banner] & you, declare & [proclaim] among the nations & [don't] conceal [it.] Say, Babylon is [captured] & Bel is [confused,] Merodach is broken in pieces. Her idols are [perplexed] & her images are broken in pieces.]

You, My people, go out of the midst of her & every man deliver his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord. [Revelation 18:4-5 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, [so] that you [aren't participants] of her sins & [so] that you [don't] receive her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven & God has remembered her iniquities.]

A rumor shall come both one year & in another year & violence in the land, ruler against ruler. [Go out,] lest your heart [faints] & [you're fearful, because of] the rumor that shall be heard in the land.

Therefore, [watch] the days come, that I will [carry out] judgment upon the [carved] images of Babylon & her whole land shall be [ashamed.] And all her [killed] shall fall in the midst of her. Then, heaven & earth & all that's [in it,] shall sing for Babylon. For the [those who plunder,] shall come to her from the North, says the Lord.

[Like] Babylon has caused the [killed] of Israel to fall, so [shall the dead] of all the earth fall on Babylon. [Revelation 18:20-21 Rejoice over her, you heaven & you holy apostles & prophets. For God has avenged you on her. And a mighty Angel [picked] up a stone like a [large] millstone & [threw] it into the sea, saying, That great city, Babylon, shall be thrown down & shall no [longer] be found at all.]

You, [who] have escaped the sword, go away & [don't] stand still. Remember the Lord [from a far distance] & let Jerusalem come to mind. [Jeremiah 44:28 Yet a small number, [who shall] escape the sword, shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah. And all [Judah's remaining, who have] gone into the land of Egypt to [stay] there, shall know Whose words shall stand, Mine, or theirs.]

We are [confused,] because we have heard [criticism.] Shame has covered our faces: [because] strangers [have] come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house. The Lord says, [For this reason, look,] the days come that I will [bring] judgment upon her [carved] images & the wounded shall groan through all her land.

[Even] though Babylon should [rise] up to heaven & [even] though she should [strengthen] her [high towers & walls] of her strength, [still plunderers] shall come from Me to her, says the Lord. [Amos 9:2-4 [Although] they dig into hell, My hand shall take them [from] there.

[Although] they climb up to heaven, I will bring them down [from] there. And though they hide themselves [on] the top of Carmel, I will search & take them out [of there.]

And though they are [hidden] from My sight in the bottom of the sea, I will command a serpent [there] & he will bite them. And though they go into captivity, [in front of] their enemies, I will command the sword [there] & it will slay them. And I will [focus] My eyes upon them for [harm] & not for good.]

A sound of [an outcry] comes from Babylon & [the sound] of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans; because the Lord has [plundered] Babylon & [silenced] her great voice. [When, a [sound] of their voice is uttered, her waves roar like great waters.

Because the spoiler [has] come upon her, even upon Babylon & her mighty men are [captured.] Everyone of their bows [are] broken; for the Lord God of [Repayment,] shall surely [repay.] [Revelation 18:6-8 Reward her even [like] she rewarded you & double to her, double according to her [deeds] & in the cup, which she has filled, fill double to her.

How much she [has] glorified herself & lived deliciously, so give her much torment & sorrow; for she says in her heart, I, a queen, sit & I'm no widow & shall see no sorrow. Therefore, her plagues shall come [on] one day: death; mourning & famine. And she, [a.k.a. Babylon,] shall be [totally burned with fire. For the Lord God, Who judges her is strong.]

And I will make her: princes; wise men, captains, rulers & mighty men drunk. And they shall sleep a [continual] sleep & not wake [up,] says the King, Whose Name is the Lord of Hosts.

The Lord of Hosts says [this;] [Babylon's wide] walls shall be [totally] broken & her high gates burned with fire. And the people & the folk, [a.k.a. relatives,] shall [work] in vain & they shall be [tired, because] of the fire.

The [Lord's] Word [that] Jeremiah, the prophet, commanded Seraiah, [Neriah's] son, [who was] the son of Maaseaih, when [Seriah' went with Zedekiah, [Judah's] king, to Babylon [during] the 4th year, [Zedekiah ruled.] And Seraiah was a [peaceful] prince.

So, Jeremiah wrote all the evil that shall [happen to] Babylon, in a book. All these Words are even written against Babylon. [Habakkuk 2:2-3 And the Lord answered me & said, Write the vision & make it plain upon [tablets, a.k.a. scroll, book,] that he, [who] reads it may flee.

For the vision is [still] for an appointed time, but at the end, [the tablet,] shall speak & not lie, though it [delays,] wait for it; because it will surely [happen] & it won't [linger.]

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon & shall see [it.] read all these Words. Then, you shall say, O Lord, You have spoken against this place, to cut it off, [so] that none shall remain in it, neither man, nor [animal,] but it shall be desolate forever.

And it shall be, when you have [finished] reading this book, that you shall [tie] a [rock] to it & [throw] it into the [middle] of the Euphrates [River.] [Jeremiah 19:11 And you shall say to them, The Lord of Hosts says [this;] Even so, I will break this people & this city, [like someone] breaks a potter's [clay] vessel, that can't be made whole again. And they shall bury them in Tophet, [until there's] no place [left] to bury.]

And you shall say, [Like this,] [book thrown into the river,] Babylon shall sink & shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her. And they shall be [tired.] The Words of Jeremiah, thus far.

Jeremiah 50:1-46 The Lord Has Jeremiah Declare Babylon Will Be Captured

The Lord Has Jeremiah Declare Babylon Will Be Captured

Jeremiah 50:1-46                              The Book of Jeremiah [in Smaller Chunks]

The Word that the Lord [spoke to] Jeremiah, the prophet, against: Babylon & the land of the Chaldeans. You, declare & [proclaim] among the nations & [put] up a [banner] & [proclaim & don't] conceal it. Say, Babylon is [captured,] Bel is [confused] & Merodach is broken in pieces.

Her idols are [perplexed] & her images are broken in pieces. For a nation against her,  comes up out of the North, [that] shall make her land desolate & none shall dwell [in there.]

Both man & [animal] shall [move] & depart. [During] that time, in those days, says the Lord, The children [people] of Israel & Judah shall come, they & their children together, [coming while] weeping. They shall go & seek the Lord their God.

They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces [toward it,] saying, Come & let's join ourselves to the Lord in a [continual] covenant [contract] that shall not be forgotten. My people [have] been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray.

[Jeremiah 31:33 *But this shall be the covenant [contract] that I will make with the house of Israel. The Lord says, After those days, I will put My Law [within] their hearts & will be their God & they shall be My people.]

They have turned them away on the mountains & they have [wandered] from mountain to hill & have forgotten their resting place. [Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, [who] come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly, they are [ravenous] wolves.]

All, [who] have found them, have devoured them. And their [enemies] said, We [didn't] offend, because they have sinned against the Lord, even the Lord, the hope of their [forefathers, where] Justice [resides.]

[Ezekiel 11:16 Therefore, say, The Lord God says [this;] Although I have [thrown] them: far [away from] among the heathen & have scattered them among the countries, [still] I will be to them [like] a little sanctuary, where they shall come [to,] in the countries.]

Remove [yourselves from] the midst of Babylon & go out of the land of the Chaldeans & be [like] the [male] goats, [in front of] the flocks. [Isaiah 48:20 You, go [out] of Babylon & flee from the Chaldeans & you declare with [the sound] of singing & tell this even to the [furthest ends] of the earth & say, The Lord has redeemed His servant, Jacob, [a.k.a. Israel.]

For [look,] I will raise an assembly of great nations from the North country & cause [them] to come up against Babylon. And they shall [put] themselves in [battle order] against her. From [there,] she shall be [captured.] Their arrows shall be [like those] of a mighty expert [archer.] None shall return [without success.]

And Chaldea shall be [plundered.] All [who plunder] her shall be satisfied, says the Lord. [Jeremiah 51:3-6 Let the archer bend his bow, against him, who bends & against him, [who magnifies] himself in his [armor.] And [don't] you spare her young men & you [shall totally] destroy all her [army.]

[Like this,] the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans & [those who] are thrust through [shall fall] in her streets. For [neither] Israel, nor Judah, have been [abandoned] by his God, the Lord of Hosts, [although] their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Flee out of the midst of Babylon & every man deliver his [life.] [Don't] be cut off in her [sinfulness;] for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance & He will [give repayment] to her.]

Because you were glad & rejoiced, O you destroyers of My heritage, you [have] grown fat [like] the heifer [in] grass & bellow [like] bulls & your mother shall be [very confused.] She, [who bore] you shall be ashamed. [Look,] the [least] of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land & a desert.

[Jeremiah 51:42-43 The sea [has] come up upon Babylon & she's covered with [a] multitude of [its] waves. Her cities are [desolate:] a dry land, a wilderness & a land [in which] no man [lives.] Neither does any son of man pass [by there.]

It shall not be inhabited, because of the [Lord's anger,] but it shall be [totally] desolate. Everyone, [who] goes by Babylon shall be astonished & hiss at all her plagues. [Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall [happen,] when 70 years are [finished,] that I will punish that nation [of] [Babylon's] king, & the land of the Chaldeans for their [sinfulness] & will make it [continually desolate,] says the Lord.]

Put yourselves in [battle order all around] against Babylon. All you, [who] bend the bow, shoot at her & [don't] spare [any] arrows: for she has sinned against the Lord. [Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, [look,] the days come, that I will [bring] judgment upon the [carved] images of Babylon & her whole land shall be [ashamed.] And all her [killed] shall fall in the midst of her.]

[All around,] shout against her. She has given her hand & her foundations [have] fallen & her walls are thrown down. For it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her; [just] as she has done [to you,] do to her. [Lamentations 15:6 We have given the hand [in a deal] to the Egyptians & Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.]

Cut off the [person, who sows seeds] from Babylon & him, [who] handles the sickle [at] the time of harvest. Everyone shall turn to his people & they shall flee to his own land, for fear of the sword & oppression.

[Revelation 18:4-5 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, [so] that you [aren't participants] of her sins, [so] that you [don't] receive her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven & God has remembered her iniquities.]

Israel [are] scattered sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, [Assyria's] king has devoured him & [lastly,] Nebuchadrezzar, [a.k.a. Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon's] king, has broken his bones. [2 Kings 25:5-7 And the [Chaldean] army pursued after king Zedekiah] & overtook him in the Plains of Jericho. And all his army were scattered from him.

So, they [seized] the king & brought him up to the king of Babylon, [in] Riblah. And they [passed] judgment on him. And they [killed Zedekiah's] sons, [in front of] his eyes & put out the eyes of Zedekiah & bound him with brass [chains] & carried him to Babylon.]

Therefore, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says [this; Watch,] I will punish the king of Babylon & his land, [like] I have punished [Assyria's] king. And I will [return] Israel again to his habitation & he shall [eat food from] Carmel & Bashan & his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim & Gilead.

The Lord says, In those days, [during] that time, the iniquity of Israel & the sin of Judah shall be sought for & there shall be none & they shall not be found: for I will pardon, [those] whom I [set aside.]

[John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that [whoever] believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God [didn't send] His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.]

The Lord says, Go up, even against the land of: Merathaim & the [residents] of Pekod & waste & [totally] destroy them & do according to all that I have commanded you. [Ezekiel 23:23-24 And all of [those] riding on horses: the Babylonians & all the Chaldeans; Pekod; Shoa; Koa; & all the Assyrians with them. All of them: desirable young men; captains, rulers, great lords [of fame.]

And they shall come against you with: chariots; wagons; wheels; & with [a multitude] of people, [who] shall [put: armor;] shield; & helmet against you. And I will [put] judgment before them & they shall judge you according to their judgments.]

A battle sound of great destruction is in the land. How the hammer [has smashed] the whole earth & [has] cut & [broken it to pieces!] Babylon, [has] become a desolation among the nations! I have laid a [trap] for you & you are also [captured,] O Babylon & you [weren't] aware.

You are found & also caught, because you have [quarreled] against the Lord. The Lord has opened His armory & has brought [out] the weapons of His indignation, for this is the work of the Lord God of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. [Isaiah 13:5 They come from a [distant] country, from the end of heaven & even the Lord & the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole land.]

Come against her from the [furthest] border & open her storehouses. [Throw] her up [like ruinous] heaps & [totally] destroy her. Let nothing of her be left. Slay all her [bulls] & let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day [has] come & the time of their visitation, [a.k.a. punishment.]

Declare in Zion the [sound] of [those who] flee & escape out of the land of Babylon [during] the vengeance of the Lord our God & the vengeance of His temple.

[Ezekiel 23:37-39 They have committed adultery & blood is [on] their hands & they have committed adultery with their idols & have also caused their sons, whom they [bore] to Me, to pass through the fire, to devour them, for [their idols.] [Additionally, they have done this to Me. They have defiled My sanctuary & [on] the same day, have [defiled] My Sabbaths.

For when they had [sacrificed] their children to their idols, they then came the same day into My sanctuary to [defile] it. And, [look,] they have done [this] in the midst of [My] house.]

Call the archers together against Babylon. All you, [who] bend the bow, camp against it [all around.] Let none of [them] escape. [Repay] her according to her: [deeds] & all she has done, do [also] to her. For she has been proud against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

[Revelation 18:5-6 For her sins have reached to heaven & God has remembered her iniquities. Reward her even, [like] she rewarded you & double to her, according to double her [deeds:] in the cup which she has filled, fill to her double.]

Therefore, the Lord says, In all her streets: her young men & all her men of war shall be cut off [on] that day. The Lord God of Hosts says, [Look,] I am against you, O most proud. For your day [has] come & the time that I will visit, [a.k.a. punish] you.

And the most proud shall stumble & fall & [no one] shall [pick] them up. And I will [start] a fire in his cities & it shall devour all [around] him. [Isaiah 26:5 For He brings down [those who] dwell on high. He lays low, the lofty city, even to the ground & He brings it even to the [dirt.]

The Lord of Hosts says [this;] The children [people] of: Israel & Judah were oppressed together. And all, [who] took them [captive,] held them [tight] & they refused to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong. The Lord of Hosts is His Name.

He shall thoroughly plead their [case, so] that He may give rest to the land & [take away the peace] of [Babylon's residents.] [Isaiah 14:3 And it shall [happen on] the day, that the Lord shall give you rest from your: sorrow, fear & the hard bondage, [in which] you were made to serve.]

The Lord says, A sword is upon the Chaldeans & [Babylon's residents:] princes & upon her wise men. [Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make drunk, her: princes, wise men, cpatians, rulers & her mighty men. And they shall sleep a [continual] sleep & shall not awake, says the King, Whose Name is the Lord of Hosts.]

A sword is upon the liars & [those who show affection to] a sword shall [be] upon her mighty men & they shall be [discouraged.] [Ezekiel 23:5 And Aholah, [a.k.a. Samaria,] played the [unfaithful] harlot, when she was Mine. And she [showed affection] on her lovers, the Assyrians, her neighbors.]

A sword is upon their: horses; chariots; & the [mixed] people, [who] are in the midst of her. And they shall become [like] women. A sword is upon her treasures & they shall be robbed. [Isaiah 19:16-17 [On] that day, Egypt shall be [similar] to women & shall be afraid & [fearful,] because of the Lord of [Hosts'] hand shaking [at them.]

A drought is upon her waters & they shall be dried up, [because] it is the land of [carved] images & they are [insane with] their idols. Therefore, the wild [animals] of the desert, with the wild [animals] of the islands & owls shall dwell there. And it shall no [longer] be inhabited forever.

Neither shall it be [lived] in from generation to generation. The Lord says, No man shall [remain] there & neither shall any son of man dwell [there like] [when] God overthrew Sodom & Gomorrah & [its neighboring] cities. [Watch,] a people & a great nation shall come from the North. And many kings shall be raised up from the [ends] of the earth.

They shall hold the [archer's] bow & the [spear]. They are cruel & won't show mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea & they shall ride upon horses & everyone [put] in [battle order,] like a man [for] the battle against you, O daughter of Babylon.

[Babylon's] king has heard the report of them & his hands [grew] feeble & anguish took hold of him, [like] a woman in [labor.] [Look,] he shall come up like a lion from the swelling Jordan [River,] into the [living places] of the strong. But I will suddenly make them run away from her.

And who is a chosen man, that I may appoint [him] over her? For who is like Me? And who will [schedule] a time for Me? And who is that shepherd, [who] will stand before Me?

Therefore, you [listen to] the [advice] of the Lord, that He has taken against Babylon & [to] His [plan] that He has [intended] against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely, the least of the flock shall draw them out. Surely, He shall make their [places to reside] desolate, [along] with them.

[Psalm 33:11-12 The counsel of the Lord stands forever & the thoughts of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord & the people whom He has chosen for His Own inheritance.]

The [out] cry is heard among the nations & the earth [trembles,] at the [sound] of [capturing] Babylon.