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JEREMIAH
- 7Babylon hath been a golden cup in Lord's hand,
- That made all the earth drunken;
- The nations have drunk of her wine,
- Therefore the nations are mad.
- 8Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed,
- Wail for her;
- Take balm for her pain,
- If so be she may be healed.
- 9We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed;
- Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country;
- For her judgment reacheth unto heaven,
- And is lifted up even to the skies.
- 10The Lord hath brought forth our victory;
- Come, and let us declare in Zion
- The work of the Lord our God.
- 11Make bright the arrows,
- Fill the quivers,
- The Lord hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes;
- Because His device is against Babylon, to destroy it;
- For it is the vengeance of the Lord,
- The vengeance of His temple.
- 12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon,
- Make the watch strong,
- Set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes;
- For the Lord hath both devised and done
- That which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
- 13O thou that dwellest upon many waters,
- Abundant in treasures,
- Thine end is come,
- The measure of thy covetousness.
- 14The Lord of hosts hath sworn by Himself:
- Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm,
- And they shall lift up a shout against thee.
- 15He that hath made the earth by His power,
- That hath established the world by His wisdom,
- And hath stretched out the heavens by His discernment;
- 16At the sound of His giving a multitude of waters in the heavens,
- He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;
- He maketh lightnings at the time of the rain,
- And bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries;
- 17Every man is proved to be brutish, for the knowledge—
- Every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image—
- That his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- 18They are vanity, a work of delusion;
- In the time of their visitation they shall perish,
- 19The portion of Jacob is not like these;
- For He is the former of all things,
- And [Israel] is the tribe of His inheritance;
- The Lord of hosts is His name.
- 20Thou art My maul and weapons of war,
- And with thee will I shatter the nations,
- And with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
- 21And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider,
- And with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth therein;
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