Brenton(i)
22 (27:22) A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
23 (27:23) How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
24 (27:24) They shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know it, Babylon, that thou wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and taken, because thou didst resist the Lord.
25 (27:25) The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God has a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 (27:26) For her times are come: open ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
27 (27:27) Dry ye up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
28 (27:28) A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance that comes from the Lord our God.
29 (27:29) Summon many against Babylon, even every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her people escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
30 (27:30) Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
31 (27:31) Behold, I am against thee the haughty one, saith the Lord: for thy day is come, and the time of thy retribution.
32 (27:32) And thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
33 (27:33) Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
34 (27:34) But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
35 (27:35) and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
36 (27:36) a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
37 (27:37) a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
38 (27:38) and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven images; and in the islands, where they boasted.
39 (27:39) Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
40 (27:40) As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
41 (27:41) Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
42 (27:42) the people is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
43 (27:43) The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
44 (27:44) Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
45 (27:45) Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting it: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
46 (27:46) For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.