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Jeremiah 9

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¹ "Now beware so that you do not lose heart, And so that you are not afraid at the rumor that will be heard in the land— For the rumor shall come one year, And after that another rumor in another year, And violence shall be in the land, Ruler against ruler—

² "Therefore behold (listen carefully), the days are coming When I will judge and punish the idols of Babylon; Her whole land will be perplexed and shamed, And all her slain will fall in her midst.

³ "Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout and sing for joy over Babylon, For the[9] destroyers will come against her from the north," Says the LORD.

⁴ Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.

⁵ You who have escaped the sword, Go away! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from far away, And let [desolate] Jerusalem come into your mind.

⁶ We are perplexed and ashamed, for we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For foreigners [from Babylon] have come Into the [most] sacred parts of the sanctuary of the LORD [even those places forbidden to all but the appointed priest].

⁷ "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "When I will judge and punish the idols [of Babylon], And throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan."

⁸ "Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, Yet destroyers will come on her from Me," says the LORD.

⁹ The sound of an outcry [comes] from Babylon, And [the sound] of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

¹⁰ For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon and make her a ruin, And He will still her great voice [that hums with city life]. And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters, The noise of their voices is raised up [like the marching of an army].

¹¹ For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon; And her mighty warriors will be captured, Their bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of [just] restitution; He will fully repay.

¹² "I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors and her commanders and her mighty warriors; They will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Says the King—the LORD of hosts is His name.

¹³ Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The[10] broad wall of Babylon will be completely overthrown and the foundations razed And her high gates will be set on fire; The peoples will labor in vain, And the nations become exhausted [only] for fire [that will destroy their work]."

¹⁴ The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now this Seraiah was chief chamberlain or quartermaster [and brother of Baruch].

¹⁵ So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the disaster which would come on Babylon, [that is] all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

¹⁶ Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, see to it that you read all these words aloud,

¹⁷ and say, 'You, O LORD, have promised concerning this place to cut it off and destroy it, so that there shall be nothing living in it, neither man nor animal, but it will be perpetually desolate.'

¹⁸ And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.

¹⁹ Then say, 'In the same way Babylon will sink down and not rise because of the disaster that I will bring on her; and the Babylonians will become [hopelessly] exhausted.'" Thus the words of Jeremiah are completed.

²⁰ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of[1] Jeremiah of Libnah.

²¹ He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD like all that Jehoiakim had done.

²² For all this came about in Jerusalem and Judah because of the anger of the LORD, and [in the end] He cast them from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

²³ Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they camped against it and built moveable towers and siege mounds all around it.

²⁴ So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

²⁵ In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

²⁶ Then the city was broken into, and all the soldiers fled. They left the city at night [as Ezekiel prophesied] passing through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They fled by way of the Arabah (the Jordan Valley).

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1	"Now beware so that you do not lose heart, And so that you are not afraid at the rumor that will be heard in the land— For the rumor shall come one year, And after that another rumor in another year, And violence shall be in the land, Ruler against ruler—
2	"Therefore behold (listen carefully), the days are coming When I will judge and punish the idols of Babylon; Her whole land will be perplexed and shamed, And all her slain will fall in her midst.
3	"Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout and sing for joy over Babylon, For the[9] destroyers will come against her from the north," Says the LORD.
4	Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.
5	You who have escaped the sword, Go away! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from far away, And let [desolate] Jerusalem come into your mind.
6	We are perplexed and ashamed, for we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For foreigners [from Babylon] have come Into the [most] sacred parts of the sanctuary of the LORD [even those places forbidden to all but the appointed priest].
7	"Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "When I will judge and punish the idols [of Babylon], And throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan."
8	"Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, Yet destroyers will come on her from Me," says the LORD.
9	The sound of an outcry [comes] from Babylon, And [the sound] of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
10	For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon and make her a ruin, And He will still her great voice [that hums with city life]. And the waves [of her conquerors] roar like great waters, The noise of their voices is raised up [like the marching of an army].
11	For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon; And her mighty warriors will be captured, Their bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of [just] restitution; He will fully repay.
12	"I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors and her commanders and her mighty warriors; They will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Says the King—the LORD of hosts is His name.
13	Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The[10] broad wall of Babylon will be completely overthrown and the foundations razed And her high gates will be set on fire; The peoples will labor in vain, And the nations become exhausted [only] for fire [that will destroy their work]."
14	The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now this Seraiah was chief chamberlain or quartermaster [and brother of Baruch].
15	So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the disaster which would come on Babylon, [that is] all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.
16	Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, see to it that you read all these words aloud,
17	and say, 'You, O LORD, have promised concerning this place to cut it off and destroy it, so that there shall be nothing living in it, neither man nor animal, but it will be perpetually desolate.'
18	And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.
19	Then say, 'In the same way Babylon will sink down and not rise because of the disaster that I will bring on her; and the Babylonians will become [hopelessly] exhausted.'" Thus the words of Jeremiah are completed.
20	Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of[1] Jeremiah of Libnah.
21	He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD like all that Jehoiakim had done.
22	For all this came about in Jerusalem and Judah because of the anger of the LORD, and [in the end] He cast them from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
23	Now it came about in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they camped against it and built moveable towers and siege mounds all around it.
24	So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
25	In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
26	Then the city was broken into, and all the soldiers fled. They left the city at night [as Ezekiel prophesied] passing through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They fled by way of the Arabah (the Jordan Valley).

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