OF BABYLON SMOTE IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH. # 3 ORDER YE THE BUCKLER AND SHIELD, AND DRAW NEAR TO BATTLE. # 4 HARNESS THE HORSES; AND GET UP, YE HORSEMEN, AND STAND FORTH WITH YOUR HELMETS; FURBISH THE SPEARS, AND PUT ON THE BRIGANDINES. # 5 WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED AND TURNED AWAY BACK? AND THEIR MIGHTY ONES ARE BEATEN DOWN, AND ARE FLED APACE, AND LOOK NOT BACK: FOR FEAR WAS ROUND ABOUT, SAITH THE LORD. # 6 LET NOT THE SWIFT FLEE AWAY, NOR THE MIGHTY MAN ESCAPE; THEY SHALL STUMBLE, AND FALL TOWARD THE NORTH BY THE RIVER EUPHHCBF8pF0G,fGD G~"G^;GhTGbpGvH6HIH&HK4HF>HlGHHVHhHgHH3 HH-H^,Hf4HU>HoKHwQHiZHIeHauH!}H*II@O I@fI@)I3IzI^I@%I@ *I@3/I,4I@+8I@I|I@DIFI`cI`q!I@K$Ia'I(I@Q+I@0-Iu0I@,2I@v4I@x6Ii9I @I?IaAI-BI`EI GI@qIIVLI@8OIcQI@RI QUI jVI`[I`i_I@VbI WeIofI lhI@WkI`EmI`oI@qIotI @vI>zI N}I &TAND FAST, AND PREPARE THEE; FOR THE SWORD SHALL DEVOUR ROUND ABOUT THEE. # 15 WHY ARE THY VALIANT MEN SWEPT AWAY? THEY STOOD NOT, BECAUSE THE LORD DID DRIVE THEM. # 16 HE MADE MANY TO FALL, YEA, ONE FELL UPON ANOTHER: AND THEY SAID, ARISE, AND LET US GO AGAIN TO OUR OWN PEOPLE, AND TO THE LAND OF OUR NATIVITY, FROM THE OPPRESSING SWORD. # 17 THEY DID CRY THERE, PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT IS BUT A NOISE; HE HATH PASSED THE TIME APPOINTED. # 18 AS I LIVE, SAITH THE KING, WHOSCJ !J@ J7J@ J JD JI J` J0 JPJP4JJ@#JpJ@?J4JP J`J JuJ@ JNJ \JPYJP> J\"Jpz#JpR$JPd%J E&J`p(JP')J*Jpu+JpS-J"N EGYPT, FURNISH THYSELF TO GO INTO CAPTIVITY: FOR NOPH SHALL BE WASTE AND DESOLATE WITHOUT AN INHABITANT. # 20 EGYPT IS LIKE A VERY FAIR HEIFER, BUT DESTRUCTION COMETH; IT COMETH OUT OF THE NORTH. # 21 ALSO HER HIRED MEN ARE IN THE MIDST OF HER LIKE FATTED BULLOCKS; FOR THEY ALSO ARE TURNED BACK, AND ARE FLED AWAY TOGETHER: THEY DID NOT STAND, BECAUSE THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY WAS COME UPON THEM, AND THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION. # 22 C-J`a/J 0JPl2JP4Jp 5J >6JP7JB8J9JpU:J0#;J cJP?J0@JPzAJ@nBJP>CJpCJnDJpbFJ0 FJyGJ ^HJ0IJJJ WMJP&NJ`GOJ0&PJ0RJJSJ@`EY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST, SAITH THE LORD, THOUGH IT CANNOT BE SEARCHED; BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE THAN THE GRASSHOPPERS, AND ARE INNUMERABLE. # 24 THE DAUGHTER OF EGYPT SHALL BE CONFOUNDED; SHE SHALL BE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH. # 25 THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, SAITH; BEHOLD, I WILL PUNISH THE MULTITUDE OF NO, AND PHARAOH, AND EGYPT, WITH THEIR GODS, AND THEIR KINGS; EVEN PHARAOH, AND ALL THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM: @BSJaTJ*UJp+VJPlWJ`XJPYJ@SZJ@\J`)]Jp<_JP`J0`J`EaJ{bJ$dJ+dJ eJufJ` gJhJmiJp`kJ`*lJ0kNEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON, AND INTO THE HAND OF HIS SERVANTS: AND AFTERWARD IT SHALL BE INHABITED, AS IN THE DAYS OF OLD, SAITH THE LORD. # 27 BUT FEAR NOT THOU, O MY SERVANT JACOB, AND BE NOT DISMAYED, O ISRAEL: FOR, BEHOLD, I WILL SAVE THEE FROM AFAR OFF, AND THY SEED FROM THE LAND OF THEIR CAPTIVITY; AND JACOB SHALL RETURN, AND BE IN REST AND AT EASE, AND NONE SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID. # 28 FEAR THOU NOT, O JACOB MY SERVANT, SAITH THE LORD: FOR I AM WITH THEE; FOR I WILL MAKE A (BmJaoJP=pJ 0qJ ZrJ ^sJ0nuJvJgwJ0=yJp{zJ@%|JT|J`e}JP`~J0IJ#JhJLJHyJ@0Jh0 OF THEE, BUT CORRECT THEE IN MEASURE; YET WILL I NOT LEAVE THEE WHOLLY UNPUNISHED. = CHAPTER 47 # 1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, BEFORE THAT PHARAOH SMOTE GAZA. # 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH, AND SHALL BE AN OVERFLOWING FLOOD, AND SHALL OVERFLOW THE LAND, AND ALL THAT IS THEREIN; THE CITY, AND THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN: THEN THE MEN SHALL CRY, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND SHALL HOWL. # 3 AT THE NOISE OFAJx@J@-J-JH HOOFS OF HIS STRONG HORSES, AT THE RUSHING OF HIS CHARIOTS, AND AT THE RUMBLING OF HIS WHEELS, THE FATHERS SHALL NOT LOOK BACK TO THEIR CHILDREN FOR FEEBLENESS OF HANDS; # 4 BECAUSE OF THE DAY THAT COMETH TO SPOIL ALL THE PHILISTINES, AND TO CUT OFF FROM TYRUS AND ZIDON EVERY HELPER THAT REMAINETH: FOR THE LORD WILL SPOIL THE PHILISTINES, THE REMNANT OF THE COUNTRY OF CAPHTOR. # 5 BALDNESS IS COME UPON GAZA; ASHKELON IS CUT OFF WITH THE REMNANT OF THEIR VALLEY: HOW LONG WILT THOU CUT THYSELF? # 6 O THOU SWORD OF THE LORD, HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE THOU BE QUIET? xBJpJxsJ`.J` JJxMJNJP( J( Jx% J9 J0JJ J@' JXR J8FJhkJ |JPuJMJ "J#Jh2J`"JHJ 'J(iJ(yJAJfT ASHKELON, AND AGAINST THE SEA SHORE? THERE HATH HE APPOINTED IT. = CHAPTER 48 # 1 AGAINST MOAB THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; WOE UNTO NEBO! FOR IT IS SPOILED: KIRIATHAIM IS CONFOUNDED AND TAKEN: MISGAB IS CONFOUNDED AND DISMAYED. # 2 THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PRAISE OF MOAB: IN HESHBON THEY HAVE DEVISED EVIL AGAINST IT; COME, AND LET US CUT IT OFF FROM BEING A NATION. ALSO THOU SHALT BE CUT DOWN, O MADMEN; THE SWORD SHALL PURSUE THEE. # @BJ0J *J@IJXJpUJ(FJ`>JxOJH"J0hJpSJ]JhJxFJJ?J@<J@_ Jh!J !Jp"JX!"J0F#Ja; HER LITTLE ONES HAVE CAUSED A CRY TO BE HEARD. # 5 FOR IN THE GOING UP OF LUHITH CONTINUAL WEEPING SHALL GO UP; FOR IN THE GOING DOWN OF HORONAIM THE ENEMIES HAVE HEARD A CRY OF DESTRUCTION. # 6 FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES, AND BE LIKE THE HEATH IN THE WILDERNESS. # 7 FOR BECAUSE THOU HAST TRUSTED IN THY WORKS AND IN THY TREASURES, THOU SHALT ALSO BE TAKEN: AND CHEMOSH SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY WITH HIS PRIESTS AND HIS PRINCES TOGETHER. # 8 AND THE SPOILER SHALL COME UPON EVERY CITY, A0B$J%J8&Jx&J'J'J t(J@%)J`(*Jx+J00+JhB,J-J0Q.J.J00/JPS0JP0JHn1JxW1JPQ2JPM3JPhS THE LORD HATH SPOKEN. # 9 GIVE WINGS UNTO MOAB, THAT IT MAY FLEE AND GET AWAY: FOR THE CITIES THEREOF SHALL BE DESOLATE, WITHOUT ANY TO DWELL THEREIN. # 10 CURSED BE HE THAT DOETH THE WORK OF THE LORD DECEITFULLY, AND CURSED BE HE THAT KEEPETH BACK HIS SWORD FROM BLOOD. # 11 MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH, AND HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS LEES, AND HATH NOT BEEN EMPTIED FROM VESSEL TO VESSEL, NEITHER HATH HE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY: THEREFORE HIS TASTE REMAINED IN HIM, AND HIS SCENT IS NOT CHHB4Jp4Jp^5Jj5Jh{6JpW7J{8J"8J@)9JI:JH:J\;JX;J(NJ>J@s?J8C@J(@J8{AJX{AJXvBJ0sCJx[HAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER, AND SHALL EMPTY HIS VESSELS, AND BREAK THEIR BOTTLES. # 13 AND MOAB SHALL BE ASHAMED OF CHEMOSH, AS THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WAS ASHAMED OF BETHEL THEIR CONFIDENCE. # 14 HOW SAY YE, WE ARE MIGHTY AND STRONG MEN FOR THE WAR? # 15 MOAB IS SPOILED, AND GONE UP OUT OF HER CITIES, AND HIS CHOSEN YOUNG MEN ARE GONE DOWN TO THE SLAUGHTER, SAITH THE KING, WHOSE NAME IS THE LORD OF HOSTS. # 16 THE CALAMITY OF MOAB IS NEAR TO COME, AND HIS AFFLICTION HASTETH FAST.hBDJ0DJEJ@7EJ8}FJFJ(GJ0 HJ%HJ8IJ6IJ8wJJ8#JJVKJ KJhZKJ \LJtLJXxMJ(DMJP4MJpeNJ8NJjOJ@eOJLPJ5PJ KhSK,kKXuK@K<K`NK\[KXoKpK<2K8PK`_KmKwKK0KHCKdVKLsKpK@K%Kd6KKXlK4KDFKrKx#K|WK<K8-K8VK@KD.KfTHE LATTER DAYS, SAITH THE LORD. THUS FAR IS THE JUDGMENT OF MOAB. = CHAPTER 49 # 1 CONCERNING THE AMMONITES, THUS SAITH THE LORD; HATH ISRAEL NO SONS? HATH HE NO HEIR? WHY THEN DOTH THEIR KING INHERIT GAD, AND HIS PEOPLE DWELL IN HIS CITIES? # 2 THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD, THAT I WILL CAUSE AN ALARM OF WAR TO BE HEARD IN RABBAH OF THE AMMONITES; AND IT SHALL BE A DESOLATE HEAP, AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL BE BURNED WITH FIRE: THEN SHALL @BK\K(:K|wKp!KLBKdoKlKH>K4iKDK:KQH THE LORD. # 3 HOWL, O HESHBON, FOR AI IS SPOILED: CRY, YE DAUGHTERS OF RABBAH, GIRD YOU WITH SACKCLOTH; LAMENT, AND RUN TO AND FRO BY THE HEDGES; FOR THEIR KING SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY, AND HIS PRIESTS AND HIS PRINCES TOGETHER. # 4 WHEREFORE GLORIEST THOU IN THE VALLEYS, THY FLOWING VALLEY, O BACKSLIDING DAUGHTER? THAT TRUSTED IN HER TREASURES, SAYING, WHO SHALL COME UNTO ME? # 5 BEHOLD, I WILL BRING A FEAR UPON THEE, SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, FROM ALL THOSE THAT BE ABOUT THEE; AND YE SHALL BE DRIVEN OUT EVERY MAN RIGHT FORTHBKhxKK(2KTJKdkK KX%KD>WANDERETH. # 6 AND AFTERWARD I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, SAITH THE LORD. # 7 CONCERNING EDOM, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; IS WISDOM NO MORE IN TEMAN? IS COUNSEL PERISHED FROM THE PRUDENT? IS THEIR WISDOM VANISHED? # 8 FLEE YE, TURN BACK, DWELL DEEP, O INHABITANTS OF DEDAN; FOR I WILL BRING THE CALAMITY OF ESAU UPON HIM, THE TIME THAT I WILL VISIT HIM. # 9 IF GRAPEGATHERERS COME TO THEE, WOULD THEY NOT LEAVE SOME GLEANING GRAPES? IF THIEVES BY NIGHT, THEY WILL DESTROY TILL THEY HAVE ENOUGH. # 10 BUT I HAVE MADE ECKD`K#K|SKKLKK`oK`$KtKT Kx+KH^KX(Kh@KeK Kp K`_KKtyK\Kh Kp#KXjKX0K\i KT' K\t K7 KhT K~!Kl3!K`}!K$!K^"K,"K<#"K@O"K(q"K`"KDB"Kdo#Kl%#K\_#K #K!#KTQ#K4m$K8. 12 FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, THEY WHOSE JUDGMENT WAS NOT TO DRINK OF THE CUP HAVE ASSUREDLY DRUNKEN; AND ART THOU HE THAT SHALL ALTOGETHER GO UNPUNISHED? THOU SHALT NOT GO UNPUNISHED, BUT THOU SHALT SURELY DRINK OF IT. # 13 FOR I HAVE SWORN BY MYSELF, SAITH THE LORD, THAT BOZRAH SHALL BECOME A DESOLATION, A REPROACH, PC$KLx$K%$K<~%KE%K%K^&K(&K0{&KD8&K$|'KH6'Kdv'KX&'KPf(K|"(K](K(Ka)KL)KH)KX{)K0%)Kxn*KLV*K t*KW+Kh+K8\+Kd +K e,KP#,KT-Kp -K$V-KH-K\V.KT4.Kk.K?.Kdo/K*/K c/K"/KI0KP20K ?0K<0K\1Kp1Ki1K(j2Kp HER, AND RISE UP TO THE BATTLE. # 15 FOR, LO, I WILL MAKE THEE SMALL AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND DESPISED AMONG MEN. # 16 THY TERRIBLENESS HATH DECEIVED THEE, AND THE PRIDE OF THINE HEART, O THOU THAT DWELLEST IN THE CLEFTS OF THE ROCK, THAT HOLDEST THE HEIGHT OF THE HILL: THOUGH THOU SHOULDEST MAKE THY NEST AS HIGH AS THE EAGLE, I WILL BRING THEE DOWN FROM THENCE, SAITH THE LORD A2K\p3KD43K43KN4K  BE A DESOLATION: EVERY ONE THAT GOETH BY IT SHALL BE ASTONISHED, AND SHALL HISS AT ALL THE PLAGUES THEREOF. # 18 AS IN THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THE NEIGHBOUR CITIES THEREOF, SAITH THE LORD, NO MAN SHALL ABIDE THERE, NEITHER SHALL A SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT. # 19 BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME UP LIKE A LION FROM THE SWELLING OF JORDAN AGAINST THE HABITATION OF THE STRONG: BUT I WILL SUDDENLY MAKE HIM RUN AWAY FROM HER: AND WHO IS A CHOSEN MAN, THAT I MAY APPOINT OVER HER? FOR WHO IS LIKE ME? AND WHO WILL APPOINT ME THE TIME? AND WHO IS THAT SHEPHERD THA@C4KH 4K k4K|4KhF4K,s5KT)5KdQ5K5K`K5Km6K$%6Kb6K &6Kxe7K\%7K67KxZ8K8KTn8KT 9K9Kxe9K$0:K0):Kh:K :KXR;KL#;KDh;K%;K4dK`7>Kt?KT ?K0R?KH?KT@K@.@K@z@K|DAK0EAST OF THE FLOCK SHALL DRAW THEM OUT: SURELY HE SHALL MAKE THEIR HABITATIONS DESOLATE WITH THEM. # 21 THE EARTH IS MOVED AT THE NOISE OF THEIR FALL, AT THE CRY THE NOISE THEREOF WAS HEARD IN THE RED SEA. # 22 BEHOLD, HE SHALL COME UP AND FLY AS THE EAGLE, AND SPREAD HIS WINGS OVER BOZRAH: AND AT THAT DAY SHALL THE HEART OF THE MIGHTY MEN OF EDOM BE AS THE HEART OF A WOMAN IN HER PANGS. # 23 @BAKDhAKLBK<"BK ~BKpmCKDGCKlCK@hDKd0DK,DKl=EK8BD: FOR THEY HAVE HEARD EVIL TIDINGS: THEY ARE FAINTHEARTED; THERE IS SORROW ON THE SEA; IT CANNOT BE QUIET. # 24 DAMASCUS IS WAXED FEEBLE, AND TURNETH HERSELF TO FLEE, AND FEAR HATH SEIZED ON HER: ANGUISH AND SORROWS HAVE TAKEN HER, AS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL. # 25 HOW IS THE CITY OF PRAISE NOT LEFT, THE CITY OF MY JOY! # 26 THEREFORE HER YOUNG MEN SHALL FALL IN HER STREETS, AND ALL THE MEN OF WAR SHALL BE CUT OFF IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. # 27 AND I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE WALL OF DAMASCUS, AND IT SHALL CONSUME THE PAL`BEK@hEK<EK >EK KEKHvFKHFKL,FKXPFKhmFK(FKX=FKtWFKsGKdE KINGDOMS OF HAZOR, WHICH NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON SHALL SMITE, THUS SAITH THE LORD; ARISE YE, GO UP TO KEDAR, AND SPOIL THE MEN OF THE EAST. # 29 THEIR TENTS AND THEIR FLOCKS SHALL THEY TAKE AWAY: THEY SHALL TAKE TO THEMSELVES THEIR CURTAINS, AND ALL THEIR VESSELS, AND THEIR CAMELS; AND THEY SHALL CRY UNTO THEM, FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE. # 30 FLEE, GET YOU FAR OFF, DWELL DEEP, O YE INHABITANTS OF HAZOR, SAITH THE LORD; FOR NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON HATH TAKEN COUNSEL AGAINST YOU, AND HATH CONCEIVED A PURPOSE AGAI@AGK<0GK \GK /ARISE, GET YOU UP UNTO THE WEALTHY NATION, THAT DWELLETH WITHOUT CARE, SAITH THE LORD, WHICH HAVE NEITHER GATES NOR BARS, WHICH DWELL ALONE. # 32 AND THEIR CAMELS SHALL BE A BOOTY, AND THE MULTITUDE OF THEIR CATTLE A SPOIL: AND I WILL SCATTER INTO ALL WINDS THEM THAT ARE IN THE UTMOST CORNERS; AND I WILL BRING THEIR CALAMITY FROM ALL SIDES THEREOF, SAITH THE LORD. # 33 AND HAZOR SHALL BE A DWELLING FOR DRAGONS, AND A DESOLATION FOR EVER: THERE SHALL NO MAN ABIDE THERE, NOR ANY SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT. # 34 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET AGAINST BGKJKhdDS HAVE CAUSED THEM TO GO ASTRAY, THEY HAVE TURNED THEM AWAY ON THE MOUNTAINS: THEY HAVE GONE FROM MOUNTAIN TO HILL, THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN THEIR RESTINGPLACE. # 7 ALL THAT FOUND THEM HAVE DEVOURED THEM: AND THEIR ADVERSARIES SAID, WE OFFEND NOT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD, THE HABITATION OF JUSTICE, EVEN THE LORD, THE HOPE OF THEIR FATHERS. # 8 REMOVE OUT OF THE MIDST OF BABYLON, AND GO FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS, AND BE AS THE HE GOATS BEFORE THE FLOCKS. # 9 FOR, LO, I WILL RAISE AND CAUSE TO COME UP AGAINST BABYLON AN ASSEM@AKK@KKx:KKt[ATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: AND THEY SHALL SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST HER; FROM THENCE SHE SHALL BE TAKEN: THEIR ARROWS SHALL BE AS OF A MIGHTY EXPERT MAN; NONE SHALL RETURN IN VAIN. # 10 AND CHALDEA SHALL BE A SPOIL: ALL THAT SPOIL HER SHALL BE SATISFIED, SAITH THE LORD. # 11 BECAUSE YE WERE GLAD, BECAUSE YE REJOICED, O YE DESTROYERS OF MINE HERITAGE, BECAUSE YE ARE GROWN FAT AS THE HEIFER AT GRASS, AND BELLOW AS BULLS; # 12 YOUR MOTHER SHALL BE SORE CONFOUNDED; SHE THAT BARE YOU SHALL BE ASHAMED: BEHOLD, THE HINDERMOST OF THE NATIONS SHALL BE A WILDERNES@AKKLKK7KKh AND A DESERT. # 13 BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF THE LORD IT SHALL NOT BE INHABITED, BUT IT SHALL BE WHOLLY DESOLATE: EVERY ONE THAT GOETH BY BABYLON SHALL BE ASTONISHED, AND HISS AT ALL HER PLAGUES. # 14 PUT YOURSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST BABYLON ROUND ABOUT: ALL YE THAT BEND THE BOW, SHOOT AT HER, SPARE NO ARROWS: FOR SHE HATH SINNED AGAINST THE LORD. # 15 SHOUT AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT: SHE HATH GIVEN HER HAND: HER FOUNDATIONS ARE FALLEN, HER WALLS ARE THROWN DOWN: FOR IT IS THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD: TAKE VENGEANCE UPON HER; AS SHE HATH DONE, DO UNTO HER. # 16 CUT OFF @ALKPLK GLK8qABYLON, AND HIM THAT HANDLETH THE SICKLE IN THE TIME OF HARVEST: FOR FEAR OF THE OPPRESSING SWORD THEY SHALL TURN EVERY ONE TO HIS PEOPLE, AND THEY SHALL FLEE EVERY ONE TO HIS OWN LAND. # 17 ISRAEL IS A SCATTERED SHEEP; THE LIONS HAVE DRIVEN HIM AWAY: FIRST THE KING OF ASSYRIA HATH DEVOURED HIM; AND LAST THIS NEBUCHADREZZAR KING OF BABYLON HATH BROKEN HIS BONES. # 18 THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD, I WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON AND HIS LAND, AS I HAVE PUNISHED THE KING OF ASSYRIA. # 19 AND I WILL BRING ISRAEL AGAIN TO HIS HABALKD(LKTN HE SHALL FEED ON CARMEL AND BASHAN, AND HIS SOUL SHALL BE SATISFIED UPON MOUNT EPHRAIM AND GILEAD. # 20 IN THOSE DAYS, AND IN THAT TIME, SAITH THE LORD, THE INIQUITY OF ISRAEL SHALL BE SOUGHT FOR, AND THERE SHALL BE NONE; AND THE SINS OF JUDAH, AND THEY SHALL NOT BE FOUND: FOR I WILL PARDON THEM WHOM I RESERVE. # 21 GO UP AGAINST THE LAND OF MERATHAIM, EVEN AGAINST IT, AND AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF PEKOD: WASTE AND UTTERLY DESTROY AFTER THEM, SAITH THE LORD, AND DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEE. # 22 A SOUND OF BATTLE IS IN THE LAND, AND OF GREAT DESTR`BMKPMK8>MKYMKrMKtMK`-MKRMKTsNK4-NKLZNK4}NK&NKONKpjDER AND BROKEN! HOW IS BABYLON BECOME A DESOLATION AMONG THE NATIONS! # 24 I HAVE LAID A SNARE FOR THEE, AND THOU ART ALSO TAKEN, O BABYLON, AND THOU WAST NOT AWARE: THOU ART FOUND, AND ALSO CAUGHT, BECAUSE THOU HAST STRIVEN AGAINST THE LORD. # 25 THE LORD HATH OPENED HIS ARMOURY, AND HATH BROUGHT FORTH THE WEAPONS OF HIS INDIGNATION: FOR THIS IS THE WORK OF THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS IN THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS. # 26 COME AGAINST HER FROM THE UTMOST BORDER, OPEN HER STOREHOUSES: CAST HER UP AS HEAPS, AND DESTROY HER UTTERLYAOKH0OKdYOKhOKL8 BE LEFT. # 27 SLAY ALL HER BULLOCKS; LET THEM GO DOWN TO THE SLAUGHTER: WOE UNTO THEM! FOR THEIR DAY IS COME, THE TIME OF THEIR VISITATION. # 28 THE VOICE OF THEM THAT FLEE AND ESCAPE OUT OF THE LAND OF BABYLON, TO DECLARE IN ZION THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD OUR GOD, THE VENGEANCE OF HIS TEMPLE. # 29 CALL TOGETHER THE ARCHERS AGAINST BABYLON: ALL YE THAT BEND THE BOW, CAMP AGAINST IT ROUND ABOUT; LET NONE THEREOF ESCAPE: RECOMPENSE HER ACCORDING TO HER WORK; ACCORDING TO ALL THAT SHE HATH DONE, DO UNTO HER: FOR SHE HATH BEEN PROUD AGAINST THE LORD, AGAINST THE `BOKHPOKD|PKH3PKPUPKpPKeQKl+QK(aQK8$QK oRK|>RKlxRK^SK0WSKSK]TK<TKpOTKhTKYUKUKt~UK,IVKtVKpqVK HWK,TWKXMOFF IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD. # 31 BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE, O THOU MOST PROUD, SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS: FOR THY DAY IS COME, THE TIME THAT I WILL VISIT THEE. # 32 AND THE MOST PROUD SHALL STUMBLE AND FALL, AND NONE SHALL RAISE HIM UP: AND I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN HIS CITIES, AND IT SHALL DEVOUR ALL ROUND ABOUT HIM. # 33 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH WERE OPPRESSED TOGETHER: AND ALL THAT TOOK THEM CAPTIVES HELD THEBWKKZKRnK@K BURNED HE WITH FIRE: # 14 AND ALL THE ARMY OF THE CHALDEANS, THAT WERE WITH THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD, BRAKE DOWN ALL THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM ROUND ABOUT. # 15 THEN NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE CERTAIN OF THE POOR OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE RESIDUE OF THE PEOPLE THAT REMAINED IN THE CITY, AND THOSE THAT FELL AWAY, THAT FELL TO THE KING OF BABYLON, AND THE REST OF THE MULTITUDE. # 16 BUT NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD LEFT CERTAIN OF THE PTH AND MAKETH A LIE. # 16 I JESUS HAVE SENT MINE ANGEL TO TESTIFY UNTO YOU THESE THINGS IN THE CHURCHES. I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID, AND THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR. # 17 AND THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY, COME. AND LET HIM THAT HEARETH SAY, COME. AND LET HIM THAT IS ATHIRST COME. AND WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY. # 18 FOR I TESTIFY UNTO EVERY MAN THAT HEARETH THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF