8 O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy shall be he who pays back to you ⌊what you paid out to us⌋.*
Psalms 137:8 Cross References - LEB
Psalms 149:6-9
6 Let the extolling of God be in their throat, and a double-edged sword in their hand,
7 to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,*
8 to bind their kings with chains and their ⌊nobles⌋* with fetters of iron,
9 to execute on them the judgment that is decreed.* This will be honor for all his faithful ones; Praise Yah.*
Isaiah 13:1-22
1 The oracle of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
2 Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up your voice to them; wave the hand and may they enter the gateways of the noblemen.
3 I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the ⌊ones who exalt over⌋* my majesty.
4 A sound, a noise is on the mountains, the likeness of many people! A sound of the roar of the kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts is mustering an army for battle.
5 They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy ⌊the whole earth⌋.*
6 Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!*
7 Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,
8 and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. ⌊They will stare at one another⌋,* ⌊their faces flushing⌋.*
9 Look! The day of Yahweh is coming, cruel and wrath and the burning of anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it.
10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low.
12 I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will quake from its place because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day his anger burns.
14 And this shall happen:
like a hunted gazelle or sheep ⌊with none to gather them⌋,* they will each turn to his own people, and they will each flee to his own land. 15 Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword. 16 And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.* 17 Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold. 18 And their bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children. 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like ⌊when God overthrew⌋* Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in ⌊forever⌋;* and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there. 21 But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches* will live there, and goats will dance there. 22 And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time ⌊is coming soon⌋,* and its days will not be prolonged.
like a hunted gazelle or sheep ⌊with none to gather them⌋,* they will each turn to his own people, and they will each flee to his own land. 15 Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword. 16 And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.* 17 Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold. 18 And their bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children. 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like ⌊when God overthrew⌋* Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in ⌊forever⌋;* and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there. 21 But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches* will live there, and goats will dance there. 22 And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time ⌊is coming soon⌋,* and its days will not be prolonged.
Isaiah 14:4-24
4 that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How the oppressor has ceased! his insolence* has ceased.
5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
6 that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger ⌊with unrestrained persecution⌋.*
7 All of the earth rests and is quiet; they break forth into singing.
8 Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since you were laid down, no wood cutter comes up against us.'
9 Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet ⌊you when you come⌋;* it arouses the dead spirits for you, all of the leaders of the earth. It raises all of the kings of the nations from their thrones.
10 All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!'
11 Your pride is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots* are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.*
12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!
13 And you yourself said in your heart,
'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon;* 14 I will ascend to the high places of the clouds,* I will make myself like the Most High.' 15 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. 16 Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake, 17 who made the world like the desert and destroyed its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?' 18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each one in his house. 19 But as for you, you are thrown away from your grave, like an abhorrent shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, those who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse that is trodden down. 20 You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people.
The descendants* of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity! 21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the sin of their ancestors.* Let them not rise and take possession of the earth or fill up the face of the world with cities." 22 "And I will rise up against them,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh of hosts,
"and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon, and offspring and posterity,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 23 "And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh of hosts. 24 Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,
"⌊Surely⌋* just as I have intended, so it shall be. And just as I have planned, it shall stand:
'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon;* 14 I will ascend to the high places of the clouds,* I will make myself like the Most High.' 15 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. 16 Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake, 17 who made the world like the desert and destroyed its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?' 18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each one in his house. 19 But as for you, you are thrown away from your grave, like an abhorrent shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, those who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse that is trodden down. 20 You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people.
The descendants* of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity! 21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the sin of their ancestors.* Let them not rise and take possession of the earth or fill up the face of the world with cities." 22 "And I will rise up against them,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh of hosts,
"and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon, and offspring and posterity,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 23 "And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,"
⌊declares⌋* Yahweh of hosts. 24 Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,
"⌊Surely⌋* just as I have intended, so it shall be. And just as I have planned, it shall stand:
Isaiah 21:1
1 The oracle of the wilderness of the sea:
As storm winds passing over in the Negev,
⌊it comes⌋* from the desert, from a frightful land.
As storm winds passing over in the Negev,
⌊it comes⌋* from the desert, from a frightful land.
Isaiah 44:28
28 who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd,' and he shall carry out all my wishes*; and saying of Jerusalem, 'It shall be rebuilt,' and the temple, 'It shall be founded.'"
Isaiah 47:1-15
1 Come down and sit on the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Chaldea! For ⌊they shall no longer call⌋* you tender and delicate.
2 Take the pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover your thigh, pass through the rivers!
3 Your nakedness shall be exposed; indeed, your shame shall become visible. I will take vengeance and I will not ⌊spare⌋* a person.
4 Our redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the holy one of Israel.
5 Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for ⌊they shall no longer call⌋* you mistress of kingdoms.
6 I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not ⌊give⌋* them mercy; on the aged you made your yoke very heavy.
7 And you said, "I shall be an eternal mistress forever!" You did not set these things upon your heart; you did not remember its end.
8 Therefore now hear this, luxuriant one who sits* in security, who says* in her heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one. I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know the loss of children."
9 And these two shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come on you ⌊completely⌋,* in spite of your many sorceries, in spite of the power of your great enchantments.
10 And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, "⌊No one⌋* sees* me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one."
11 And evil shall come upon you, you will not know; it will be on the lookout for her. And disaster shall fall upon you; you will not be able to ⌊avert⌋* it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly; you do not know.
12 Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may ⌊scare away⌋.*
13 You struggle with your many consultations;* let them stand, now, and save you— those who see the stars, divide the ⌊celestial sphere⌋,* who inform by new moons— from those things that are coming upon you.
14 Look! They are like stubble; the fire burns them completely. They cannot deliver ⌊themselves⌋* from the ⌊power⌋* of the flame; there is no coal ⌊for warming oneself⌋,* no fire before which to sit.
15 So are to you those with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth. They wander, each to his side; there is no one who can save you.
Jeremiah 25:12-14
12 ⌊And then⌋* when the seventy years* are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it ⌊an everlasting waste⌋.*
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, everything that is written in this scroll which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'"
Jeremiah 50:1-51:64
1 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet:
2 "Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner. Proclaim, you must not conceal it. Say, 'Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is filled with terror, her idols are ashamed, her idols are filled with terror.
3 For a nation will come up against her from the north. It will make her land as a horror, and an inhabitant will not be in her. From humans* to animals* they all will wander off. They will go away.
4 In those days and in that time,'" ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "the people* of Israel will come, they and the people* of Judah together. ⌊Weeping as they go⌋,* they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek.
5 They will ask the way to Zion, turning their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh by ⌊an everlasting covenant⌋* that will not be forgotten.
6 My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away to the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place.
7 All those who found them have devoured them. And their foes have said, 'We are not guilty, ⌊because⌋* they have sinned against Yahweh, the ⌊true pasture⌋,* even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.'*
8 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans. Go out and be like he-goats ⌊before⌋* the flock.
9 For look, I am going to stir up, and I am going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from the land of the north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success, he does not return without success.
10 And Chaldea will be as booty, all those who plunder her will be satisfied," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh.
11 "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions,
12 your mother will be very ashamed. She who gave birth to you will be humiliated.* Look, she will be the least of the nations, a desert,* dry land, and wilderness.*
13 Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited, but she will be a wasteland, all of her. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will hiss because of all her wounds.
14 Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around, all those who bend the bow, shoot at her. You must not spare arrows,* for she has sinned against Yahweh.
15 Raise a war cry against her on all sides. ⌊She has surrendered⌋.* Her towers have fallen, her walls are ruined. For this is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take revenge on her. As she has done to others, so do to her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who uses the sickle in the time of harvest. ⌊Because of⌋* the sword of the oppressor each one will turn to their people, and each one will flee to their land.
17 Israel is a sheep scattered, lions drove them away. The first who devoured it was the king of Assyria, and now at the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones."
18 ⌊Therefore⌋* thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
"Look, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria. 19 And I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it will feed on Carmel, and in Bashan, and on the hills* of Ephraim, and in Gilead its hunger will be satisfied. 20 In those days and at that time," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there is none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I left behind. 21 To the land of Merathaim, go up against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, massacre and destroy them," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "and do according to all that I have commanded you. 22 The sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction. 23 How the blacksmith's hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations! 24 I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon. But you yourself did not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself. 25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath, for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. 26 Come against her from the end, open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps and destroy her. Let there be no remnant for her. 27 Massacre all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughtering. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. 28 There is the sound of fugitives and survivors from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance for his temple. 29 Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, so do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel. 30 ⌊Therefore⌋* her young men will fall in her public squares, and all ⌊her soldiers⌋* will perish on that day," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 31 "Look, I am against you, O arrogant one," ⌊declares⌋* Lord Yahweh of hosts, "for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. 32 And the arrogant one will stumble and fall, and there is no one who raises him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him." 33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"The people* of Israel are oppressed, and the people* of Judah likewise, ⌊for⌋* all their captors have seized them, they refuse to let them go free. 34 Their redeemer is strong, his name is Yahweh of hosts. Surely he will plead their case, in order to make peace for the earth, but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon. 35 A sword against the Chaldeans," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men. 36 A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror. 37 A sword against his horses, and against his chariots,* and against all the foreign troops who are in the midst of her, so that they may become as women. A sword against her treasures, so that they may be plundered. 38 A drought will come against her waters, and they will dry up, for it is a land of images, and because of the frightful objects, they act like madmen. 39 ⌊Therefore⌋* desert creatures will live there* with jackals, and daughters of ostriches* will inhabit her. And she will not be inhabited again ⌊forever⌋,* and she will not be dwelt in ⌊for all generations⌋.* 40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "no one will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her. 41 Look, a people is about to come from the north, and a great nation and many kings are woken up from the remotest part of the earth. 42 They keep hold of bow and short sword. They are cruel and they have no mercy. Their sound is like the sea, it roars, and upon horses they ride. Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon heard their report and his hands grew slack. Anxiety has seized him, fear and pain like the woman who gives birth. 44 Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets* of the Jordan against ⌊a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream⌋,* so ⌊I will chase them away quickly⌋* from her, and I will appoint whoever is chosen over her. For who is like me, and who can summon me, and who is this shepherd who can stand ⌊before me⌋?* 45 ⌊Therefore⌋* hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Babylon, and his plans that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. ⌊Surely⌋* they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. ⌊Surely⌋* he will cause their grazing place to be desolate over them. 46 At the sound, 'Babylon has been captured,' the earth will quake, and a cry for help among the nations will be heard."
"Look, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria. 19 And I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it will feed on Carmel, and in Bashan, and on the hills* of Ephraim, and in Gilead its hunger will be satisfied. 20 In those days and at that time," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there is none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I left behind. 21 To the land of Merathaim, go up against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, massacre and destroy them," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "and do according to all that I have commanded you. 22 The sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction. 23 How the blacksmith's hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations! 24 I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon. But you yourself did not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself. 25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath, for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. 26 Come against her from the end, open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps and destroy her. Let there be no remnant for her. 27 Massacre all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughtering. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. 28 There is the sound of fugitives and survivors from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance for his temple. 29 Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, so do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel. 30 ⌊Therefore⌋* her young men will fall in her public squares, and all ⌊her soldiers⌋* will perish on that day," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 31 "Look, I am against you, O arrogant one," ⌊declares⌋* Lord Yahweh of hosts, "for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. 32 And the arrogant one will stumble and fall, and there is no one who raises him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him." 33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"The people* of Israel are oppressed, and the people* of Judah likewise, ⌊for⌋* all their captors have seized them, they refuse to let them go free. 34 Their redeemer is strong, his name is Yahweh of hosts. Surely he will plead their case, in order to make peace for the earth, but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon. 35 A sword against the Chaldeans," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men. 36 A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror. 37 A sword against his horses, and against his chariots,* and against all the foreign troops who are in the midst of her, so that they may become as women. A sword against her treasures, so that they may be plundered. 38 A drought will come against her waters, and they will dry up, for it is a land of images, and because of the frightful objects, they act like madmen. 39 ⌊Therefore⌋* desert creatures will live there* with jackals, and daughters of ostriches* will inhabit her. And she will not be inhabited again ⌊forever⌋,* and she will not be dwelt in ⌊for all generations⌋.* 40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "no one will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her. 41 Look, a people is about to come from the north, and a great nation and many kings are woken up from the remotest part of the earth. 42 They keep hold of bow and short sword. They are cruel and they have no mercy. Their sound is like the sea, it roars, and upon horses they ride. Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon heard their report and his hands grew slack. Anxiety has seized him, fear and pain like the woman who gives birth. 44 Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets* of the Jordan against ⌊a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream⌋,* so ⌊I will chase them away quickly⌋* from her, and I will appoint whoever is chosen over her. For who is like me, and who can summon me, and who is this shepherd who can stand ⌊before me⌋?* 45 ⌊Therefore⌋* hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Babylon, and his plans that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. ⌊Surely⌋* they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. ⌊Surely⌋* he will cause their grazing place to be desolate over them. 46 At the sound, 'Babylon has been captured,' the earth will quake, and a cry for help among the nations will be heard."
Jeremiah 51:1-64
1 Thus says Yahweh:
"Look, I am going to stir up against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai a destructive wind. 2 And I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they will winnow her, and they will lay waste her land, for they will be against her from all sides on the day of disaster. 3 Let not him who bends the bow shoot his bow, and let him not rise high in his body armor. And you must not spare her young men; destroy her whole army. 4 And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets. 5 For neither Israel nor Judah is a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel." 6 Flee from the midst of Babylon and save each one his life. You must not perish because of her guilt. For this is the time of vengeance for Yahweh, he will repay her what is deserved. 7 Babylon was a cup of gold in the hand of Yahweh, making drunk all the earth. The nations drank of her wine. ⌊Therefore⌋* the nations acted like madmen. 8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed. 9 We tried to heal Babylon, and she was not healed. Forsake her and let us go each one to his country, for her judgment has reached to the heavens, and it has been lifted up to the skies. 10 Yahweh has brought forth our vindication. Come and let us make known in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. 11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Because his plan concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance for his temple. 12 Against the walls of Babylon raise a banner; ⌊post a strong watch⌋,* post watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for Yahweh has both planned as well as performed what he has spoken concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 O you who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, ⌊the measure of your life⌋.* 14 Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, "Surely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts,* and they will sing over you a war cry." 15 He is the one who made the earth by his power, the one who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens. 16 At the giving of his voice there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the patches of mist to go up from the end of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses. 17 All humankind turns out to be stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by the divine image. For his cast image is a lie, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish. 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of ⌊everything⌋,* and the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts is his name. 20 He says, "You are a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you. 21 And I smash the horse with you, and its rider, and I smash the chariot with you, and its rider. 22 And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash the old man and the boy with you, and I smash the young man and the young woman with you. 23 And I smash the shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash the farmer and his team with you, and I smash the governors and the officials with you. 24 And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 25 "Look, I am against you, O mountain of the destruction," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "the one that destroys the whole earth. And I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you down from the cliffs, and I will make you as a mountain burned away. 26 They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be ⌊an everlasting desolation⌋,"* ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 27 Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses* like bristling creeping locusts.* 28 Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion. 29 And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, ⌊without⌋* inhabitant. 30 The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken. 31 one runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, ⌊from end to end⌋.* 32 And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and ⌊the soldiers⌋* are horrified. 33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
"The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, ⌊just a little while⌋* and the time of the harvest will come for her." 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me. 35 "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon," the inhabitants* of Zion will say; and "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say. 36 ⌊Therefore⌋* thus says Yahweh,
"Look, I am going to contend your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will cause her sea to dry up, and I will cause her fountain to dry up. 37 And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, ⌊without⌋* inhabitants. 38 They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions. 39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep ⌊an everlasting sleep⌋,* and they will not wake up," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 40 "I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats. 41 How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations! 42 The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves. 43 Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness,* a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it. 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth ⌊what he has swallowed⌋.* And the nations will not stream towards him any longer ⌊what's worse⌋,* the wall of Babylon has fallen. 45 Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from ⌊the burning anger of⌋* Yahweh. 46 Now ⌊so that you are not fainthearted⌋,* and you are afraid at the rumors* that are heard in the land— and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler— 47 ⌊therefore⌋* look, days are coming, and I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain ones will fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and the earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for from the north the destroyers will come to it," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 49 Babylon must fall not only because of the slain ones of Israel, but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen. 50 Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your ⌊mind⌋.* 51 We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts,* disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh. 52 "⌊Therefore⌋* look, days are coming," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "and I will punish her images, and the fatally wounded will sigh through all her land. 53 Though Babylon goes up to the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 54 The sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans. 55 For Yahweh is devastating Babylon, and he obliterates her loud noise* from her. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the roar of their voices* resounds. 56 For a destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, and her warriors are captured. Their bows are broken; for Yahweh is a God of recompense, certainly he will repay. 57 "And I will make drunk her officials, and her wise men, her governors, and her officials, and her warriors, and they will sleep ⌊an everlasting sleep⌋,* and they will not wake up," ⌊declares⌋* the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name. 58 Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished, and her high gates will burn with fire, and the peoples will labor ⌊for nothing⌋,* and the nations ⌊for fire⌋,* and they will grow weary." 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, at his going with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was the ⌊quartermaster⌋.* 60 And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters* that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "At your coming to Babylon, then you must see that you read aloud all these words. 62 And you must say, 'Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that there will not be in it anything living, from humankind to animals,* for it will be ⌊an everlasting desolation⌋.'* 63 ⌊And then⌋* when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of the Euphrates. 64 And you must say, 'Babylon will sink, and she will not rise, ⌊because of⌋* the face of the disasters* that I am bringing on her, and they will grow weary.'" ⌊Thus far⌋* the words of Jeremiah.
"Look, I am going to stir up against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai a destructive wind. 2 And I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they will winnow her, and they will lay waste her land, for they will be against her from all sides on the day of disaster. 3 Let not him who bends the bow shoot his bow, and let him not rise high in his body armor. And you must not spare her young men; destroy her whole army. 4 And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets. 5 For neither Israel nor Judah is a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel." 6 Flee from the midst of Babylon and save each one his life. You must not perish because of her guilt. For this is the time of vengeance for Yahweh, he will repay her what is deserved. 7 Babylon was a cup of gold in the hand of Yahweh, making drunk all the earth. The nations drank of her wine. ⌊Therefore⌋* the nations acted like madmen. 8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed. 9 We tried to heal Babylon, and she was not healed. Forsake her and let us go each one to his country, for her judgment has reached to the heavens, and it has been lifted up to the skies. 10 Yahweh has brought forth our vindication. Come and let us make known in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. 11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Because his plan concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance for his temple. 12 Against the walls of Babylon raise a banner; ⌊post a strong watch⌋,* post watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for Yahweh has both planned as well as performed what he has spoken concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 O you who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, ⌊the measure of your life⌋.* 14 Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, "Surely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts,* and they will sing over you a war cry." 15 He is the one who made the earth by his power, the one who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens. 16 At the giving of his voice there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the patches of mist to go up from the end of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses. 17 All humankind turns out to be stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by the divine image. For his cast image is a lie, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish. 19 The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of ⌊everything⌋,* and the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts is his name. 20 He says, "You are a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you. 21 And I smash the horse with you, and its rider, and I smash the chariot with you, and its rider. 22 And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash the old man and the boy with you, and I smash the young man and the young woman with you. 23 And I smash the shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash the farmer and his team with you, and I smash the governors and the officials with you. 24 And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 25 "Look, I am against you, O mountain of the destruction," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "the one that destroys the whole earth. And I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you down from the cliffs, and I will make you as a mountain burned away. 26 They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be ⌊an everlasting desolation⌋,"* ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 27 Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses* like bristling creeping locusts.* 28 Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion. 29 And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, ⌊without⌋* inhabitant. 30 The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken. 31 one runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, ⌊from end to end⌋.* 32 And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and ⌊the soldiers⌋* are horrified. 33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,
"The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, ⌊just a little while⌋* and the time of the harvest will come for her." 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me. 35 "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon," the inhabitants* of Zion will say; and "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say. 36 ⌊Therefore⌋* thus says Yahweh,
"Look, I am going to contend your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will cause her sea to dry up, and I will cause her fountain to dry up. 37 And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, ⌊without⌋* inhabitants. 38 They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions. 39 At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep ⌊an everlasting sleep⌋,* and they will not wake up," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 40 "I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats. 41 How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations! 42 The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves. 43 Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness,* a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it. 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth ⌊what he has swallowed⌋.* And the nations will not stream towards him any longer ⌊what's worse⌋,* the wall of Babylon has fallen. 45 Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from ⌊the burning anger of⌋* Yahweh. 46 Now ⌊so that you are not fainthearted⌋,* and you are afraid at the rumors* that are heard in the land— and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler— 47 ⌊therefore⌋* look, days are coming, and I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain ones will fall in the midst of her. 48 Then the heaven and the earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for from the north the destroyers will come to it," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 49 Babylon must fall not only because of the slain ones of Israel, but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen. 50 Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your ⌊mind⌋.* 51 We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts,* disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh. 52 "⌊Therefore⌋* look, days are coming," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "and I will punish her images, and the fatally wounded will sigh through all her land. 53 Though Babylon goes up to the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh. 54 The sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans. 55 For Yahweh is devastating Babylon, and he obliterates her loud noise* from her. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the roar of their voices* resounds. 56 For a destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, and her warriors are captured. Their bows are broken; for Yahweh is a God of recompense, certainly he will repay. 57 "And I will make drunk her officials, and her wise men, her governors, and her officials, and her warriors, and they will sleep ⌊an everlasting sleep⌋,* and they will not wake up," ⌊declares⌋* the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name. 58 Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished, and her high gates will burn with fire, and the peoples will labor ⌊for nothing⌋,* and the nations ⌊for fire⌋,* and they will grow weary." 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, at his going with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was the ⌊quartermaster⌋.* 60 And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters* that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "At your coming to Babylon, then you must see that you read aloud all these words. 62 And you must say, 'Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that there will not be in it anything living, from humankind to animals,* for it will be ⌊an everlasting desolation⌋.'* 63 ⌊And then⌋* when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of the Euphrates. 64 And you must say, 'Babylon will sink, and she will not rise, ⌊because of⌋* the face of the disasters* that I am bringing on her, and they will grow weary.'" ⌊Thus far⌋* the words of Jeremiah.
Zechariah 2:7
7 "Woe, Zion! Escape, you inhabitants of the daughter of Babylon!"
Revelation 14:8-11
8 And another second angel followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who caused all the nations to drink from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
9 And another third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
10 he himself also will drink of the wine of the anger of God that has been mixed full strength in the cup of his wrath, and will be tortured with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torture went up ⌊forever and ever⌋*, and those who worshiped the beast and his image did not have rest day and night, ⌊along with anyone who received⌋* the mark of his name.
Revelation 17:1-18
1 And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."
3 And he carried me away into the wilderness in the Spirit,* and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand full of detestable things and the unclean things of her sexual immorality.
5 And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: "Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth."
6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.
And ⌊I was greatly astonished when I saw her⌋*. 7 And the angel said to me, "Why are you astonished? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that has the seven heads and the ten horns that carries her. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is going to come up from the abyss, and he is going to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished when they* see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present. 9 Here is the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains ⌊on which the woman sits⌋* and they are seven kings. 10 Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and whenever he comes it is necessary for him to remain a short time. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, is also himself an eighth, and is of the seven, and he is going to destruction. 12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but they will receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast. 13 These have one opinion, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful." 15 And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages. 16 And the ten horns that you saw and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. 17 For God put into their hearts to carry out his purpose and to make ⌊a unanimous decision⌋* and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman that you saw is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.
And ⌊I was greatly astonished when I saw her⌋*. 7 And the angel said to me, "Why are you astonished? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that has the seven heads and the ten horns that carries her. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is going to come up from the abyss, and he is going to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished when they* see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present. 9 Here is the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains ⌊on which the woman sits⌋* and they are seven kings. 10 Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and whenever he comes it is necessary for him to remain a short time. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, is also himself an eighth, and is of the seven, and he is going to destruction. 12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but they will receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast. 13 These have one opinion, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful." 15 And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages. 16 And the ten horns that you saw and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. 17 For God put into their hearts to carry out his purpose and to make ⌊a unanimous decision⌋* and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman that you saw is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18:6
6 Pay back to her as she herself also paid out, and ⌊pay back double⌋* according to her deeds; in the cup that she mixed, mix double for her.
Revelation 18:20
20 Rejoice over her, heaven and the saints and the apostles and the prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment on her!"