< 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 Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the heart of those that rise 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 I will send unto Babylon strangers, who 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 *Q(K)*) [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 coat of mail; and spare not her young men: destroy 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
And 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 is not forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; for their land is full of guilt 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 save every man his life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall 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 Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore have the nations become 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 ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
9 (to heal *Q(k)*) [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 have treated Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto the heavens, and is lifted up 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
Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah 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
Sharpen the arrows; take the shields. Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for this is the vengeance of Jehovah, 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
Lift up a banner towards the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 (to dwell *Q(k)*) upon water many many treasure to come (in): come end your cubit unjust-gain your
Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy rapacity.
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
Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, I will assuredly fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall raise 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 heavens 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 tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the 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 become brutish, so as to have no knowledge; every founder is put to shame 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, a work of delusion: 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 it is he that hath formed all things: and [Israel] is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah 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 maul, [my] weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee 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 I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and its driver;
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
and with thee 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
and with thee will I break in pieces 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 governors 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, in your sight, all their evil which they have done in Zion, saith Jehovah.
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, mount of destruction, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burning 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; for thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.
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
Lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare nations against her; call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the bristly caterpillars.
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 nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their 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 trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without 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 ceased to fight, they are sitting in the fortresses; their might hath failed, they are become as women: they have set her dwelling places on fire; 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
Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end;
32 and [the] ford to capture and [obj] [the] pool to burn in/on/with fire and human [the] battle to dismay
and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt 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 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time of its being trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
34 (to eat me to confuse me *Q(K)*) Nebuchadnezzar king Babylon (to set me *Q(K)*) article/utensil vain (to swallow up me *Q(K)*) like/as serpent: monster to fill belly his from delicacy my (to wash me *Q(K)*)
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 inhabitress of Zion say; and, My blood be 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 Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her spring 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 dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
38 together like/as lion to roar to growl like/as whelp lion
They shall roar together like young lions, growl 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
When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
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 seized! 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 its waves.
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 become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a 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 what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen.
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
Go ye out of the midst of her, my people, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah!
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
lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; for a rumour shall come [one] year, and after that a rumour in [another] year, and violence in the earth, 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, days are coming when I will punish the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be put to shame, 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
And the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall shout aloud over Babylon; for out of the north the spoilers shall come against her, saith Jehovah.
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 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, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, 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 put to shame, for we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our face: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah'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
— Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish her graven images; and throughout 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 the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith Jehovah.
54 voice outcry from Babylon and breaking great: large from land: country/planet Chaldea
The 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
for Jehovah spoileth Babylon, and he will destroy out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like great waters, the noise of their voice resoundeth.
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
For the spoiler is come against her, against Babylon, and her mighty men are taken; their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah, the God of recompences, will certainly 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 governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah 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 Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and the nations for 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 that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Nerijah, 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 chamberlain.
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
And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, 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, see that thou 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
and say, Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, that thou wilt cut it off, so that none shall dwell 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 ended reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the 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 shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise, because of the evil that I will bring upon it: and they shall be weary. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.