Isaiah 47 Cross References - LITV

¹ Go down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the earth; a throne is not to the daughter of the Chaldeans; for they shall not again call you tender and delicate. ² Take millstones and grind meal; uncover your veil; strip off the skirt; uncover the leg; pass over rivers. ³ Your nakedness shall be uncovered; yea, your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance and I will not meet a man. ⁴ Our Redeemer; Jehovah of Hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel. ⁵ Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for they shall no more call you the mistress of kingdoms. ⁶ I was angry with My people; I defiled My inheritance and gave them into your hand. You gave them no mercy; you made your yoke on the aged very heavy. ⁷ And you said, I shall be a mistress forever, until you did not set these things on your heart, and not did remember its end. ⁸ Now, then, hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am, and none else is; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children. ⁹ But these two things shall suddenly come to you, in one day: loss of children, and widowhood; as complete they come on you, for your many sorceries, for the multitude of your great spells. ¹⁰ For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge perverts you, and you said in your heart, I am and none else is . ¹¹ For this, evil shall come on you; you shall not know its origin. And mischief shall fall on you; you shall not be able to cover it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly, you shall not know. ¹² Stand now among your spells, and with your many sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps may cause quaking. ¹³ You are exhausted by your many plans; let those dividing the heavens stand up now and save you, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons. ¹⁴ Behold, they are as stubble; the fire burns them; they shall not save their soul from the flame's hand; there is no coal to warm them; nor fire, to sit before it. ¹⁵ So they are to you with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth; each one wanders to his own way; no one saves you.

⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter; ⁵⁷ and against her fetus which comes out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she shall bear. For she shall eat them in secret, for the lack of everything in the siege and in the anguish with which the enemy shall distress you within your gates.

⁸ And he took a broken piece of pottery with which to scrape himself. And he sat down among the ashes.

¹³ And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights. And no one was speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

²⁷ for You will save an afflicted people, but will bring down haughty eyes.

⁴⁴ You have made his glory to cease and have hurled his throne to the ground.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed is he who shall repay to you your reward which you rewarded to us.

²⁶ And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit bare on the ground.

¹³ For you have said In your heart, I will go up to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit in the mount of meeting, in the sides of the north. ¹⁴ I will rise over the heights of the clouds; I will be compared to the Most High.

¹² And He said, You shall rejoice no more, oppressed one, virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there is no rest to you.

⁵ For He bows the dwellers on high; He lays low the lofty city; He lays it low to the ground; He makes it touch even to the dust.

⁹ O women who are at ease, rise up. Hear my voice; confident daughters, listen to my word. ¹⁰ You will shake for days on a year, confident women; for the vintage fails; the harvest will not come. ¹¹ Tremble, women at ease; shake, confident women; strip and make yourselves bare, and bind on sackcloth on your loins;

²² this is the word Jehovah has spoken about him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you, laughing you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken the head behind you.

⁷ And you said, I shall be a mistress forever, until you did not set these things on your heart, and not did remember its end. ⁸ Now, then, hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am, and none else is; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children. ⁹ But these two things shall suddenly come to you, in one day: loss of children, and widowhood; as complete they come on you, for your many sorceries, for the multitude of your great spells.

² Shake yourself from the dust; rise up! Sit, Jerusalem; free yourself from your neck bands, O captive daughter of Zion.

¹⁸ Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory will come down from your head places.

¹¹ Go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain you shall use many remedies; healing is not for you.

¹⁸ O dweller, daughter of Dibon, come down from glory and sit in thirst. For a ravager of Moab shall come on you; he has ruined your strongholds.

⁴² They lay hold of a bow and a javelin, they shall be cruel and will show no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea, and arrayed like a man for the battle, they shall ride on horses against you, O daughter of Babylon.

³³ For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain floor, it is time to tread her. Yet a little while, and the time of her harvest will come.

¹⁰ They sit on the ground; the elders of Zion's daughters are silent. They send up dust on their heads, they gird on sack cloths. The virgins of Jerusalem let their heads hang to the ground.

²¹ Young and old lie on the ground of the plazas. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed in the day of Your anger. You have killed, You have not pitied.

⁵ Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those reared on scarlet embrace dunghills.

¹⁶ And all the rulers of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. they shall be clothed with trembling. They shall sit on the ground and shall tremble at every moment and be appalled at you.

¹⁷ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I will put you before kings, that they may see you.

³ The pride of your heart has deceived you, dwelling in the clefts of the rock; his dwelling is lofty, saying in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? ⁴ Though you rise high as the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, declares Jehovah.

⁶ And the word touched even to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he took his robe from him and covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

²² And I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will come down, each one by the sword of his brother.

⁷ Ho, O Zion! Escape, you who live with the daughter of Babylon.

⁷ By what things she glorified herself, and luxuriated, by so much give back to her torment and mourning. Because she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all.

⁶⁵ And she said to the slave, Who is this man walking in the field to meet us? And the slave said, It is my master. And she took the veil and covered herself.

⁵ And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl who is behind the mill; and every first born of animals.

²¹ And the Philistines seized him, and bored out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. And they bound him with bands of bronze. And he was grinding in the house of prisoners.

¹⁰ let my wife grind to another, and let others crouch over her.

¹⁷ So Jehovah will make the crown of the daughter of Zion scabby; and Jehovah will lay their secret parts bare.

⁴ so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old; naked and barefoot, and with uncovered buttocks; to the nakedness of Egypt.

¹¹ Tremble, women at ease; shake, confident women; strip and make yourselves bare, and bind on sackcloth on your loins;

²² And if you say in your heart, Why do these things come upon me? It is because of the greatness of your iniquity. Your skirts are bared; your heels suffer violence.

²⁶ So I also have stripped off your skirts over your face, that your shame may appear.

⁷ And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes, and his time . And many nations and great kings shall enslave him.

¹³ They lifted the young men to the hand mill, and the youths stumbled at the wood.

³⁷ therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you have loved, with all whom you have hated, I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them. Yea, they will see all your nakedness. ³⁸ And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood of fury and jealousy. ³⁹ And I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes and shall take your beautiful things, and leave you naked and bare.

³ that I not strip her naked and set her out as in the day that she was born, and make her as the wilderness, and place her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

¹¹ Pass over to them, O dweller of Shaphir, in nakedness of shame. The dweller of Zaanan has not gone out; the mourning of Bethezel shall take from you its place of standing.

⁵ Behold, I am against you, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will cause the nations to see your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. ⁶ And I will cast filth on you and will disgrace you. And I will set you as a spectacle.

⁴¹ two grinding at the mill; one is taken away, and one is left.

³⁵ Two will be grinding together; one will be taken and the other will be left.

³⁵ Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared are hurrying for them.

⁴¹ If I have sharpened My glittering sword, and My hand lays hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My foes, and I will repay those who hate Me. ⁴² I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy head of the enemy. ⁴³ Rejoice, O nations, of His people; for He shall avenge the blood of His servants, and shall render vengeance to His foes, and shall have mercy on His land and His people.

¹ O Jehovah, God of vengeance; O God of vengeance, shine forth! ² Lift up Yourself, O judge of the earth; give a just repayment on the proud.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one! Blessed is he who shall repay to you your reward which you rewarded to us. ⁹ Blessed is he who seizes your little ones and dashes them against the stone!

¹ Nations, come near to hear; and peoples, listen! Let the earth hear, and its fullness, the world and all its offspring. ² For the wrath of Jehovah is on all the nations, and fury on all their army; He has devoted them; He gave them to slaughter. ³ And their slain shall be thrown out; and the stench from their carcasses shall rise; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. ⁴ And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll. Then all their host shall droop, as a leaf drooping from the vine, and as the drooping from a fig tree. ⁵ For My sword is drenched in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment. ⁶ A sword is to Jehovah; it is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ And wild oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with strong bulls; and their land is drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. ⁸ For the day of vengeance is to Jehovah, the year of repayments for Zion's cause.

¹⁷ For He put on righteousness like armor, and a helmet of salvation on His head. And He put on robes of vengeance as clothing; and He put on zeal like a mantle. ¹⁸ According to works, so He will repay; fury to His foes; recompense to His foes; He will repay recompense to the coasts.

⁴ For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. ⁵ And I looked, and no one was helping. And I wondered that no one was upholding. Then My own arm saved for Me, and My fury upheld Me. ⁶ And I trod down the people in My anger, and made them drunk in My fury. And I poured their juice to the earth.

²⁷ Put the sword to all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment. ²⁸ The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance of His temple.

⁴ So the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, yea, pierced through in her streets.

¹¹ Purify the arrows, fill the shields; Jehovah has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon, to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of His temple.

²⁰ You are My war club and weapons of war, for with you I will shatter nations and with you I will destroy kingdoms. ²¹ And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider, and with you I will shatter the chariot and his charioteer. ²² And I will shatter man and woman with you, and with you I will shatter old and young, and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl. ²³ And I will shatter the shepherd and his flock with you. And I will shatter the farmer and his team with you, and with you I will shatter heads and rulers. ²⁴ And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldea all the evil that they have done in Zion, before your eyes, declares Jehovah.

³⁴ Nebu-chadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has devoured us. He has crushed us. He has made us an empty vessel. He has swallowed us like a jackal. He has filled his belly with delicacies. He has thrown me out. ³⁵ The violence done to me and to my flesh is on Babylon, the dweller in Zion shall say. And Jerusalem shall say, My blood shall be on the dwellers of Chaldea. ³⁶ So Jehovah says this: Behold, I will strive for you and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea and make her well dry.

⁵⁶ Because the plunderer is coming on her, on Babylon, and her mighty men are captured, their bows are shattered; for Jehovah the God of recompenses shall surely repay.

³⁷ therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you have loved, with all whom you have hated, I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them. Yea, they will see all your nakedness.

⁵ Behold, I am against you, declares Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover your skirts over your face, and I will cause the nations to see your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath, for it has been written, "Vengeance is Mine," "I will repay," says the Lord. Deut. 32:35

³⁰ For we know Him who has said, "Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The Lord will judge His people." Deut. 32:35, 36 ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

⁹ And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those having been slain for the word of God, and for the witness which they had. ¹⁰ And they cried with a great voice, saying, Until when, holy and true Master, do You not judge and take vengeance for our blood, from those dwelling on the earth?

¹⁹ And the great city came to be into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the anger of His wrath.

⁵ because her sins joined together, even up to Heaven, and God remembered her unjust deeds. ⁶ Give back to her as also she gave back to you, and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. ⁷ By what things she glorified herself, and luxuriated, by so much give back to her torment and mourning. Because she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all. ⁸ Because of this, in one day her plagues shall come: death, and mourning, and famine; and she will be consumed with fire, for the Lord God judging her is strong.

²⁰ Rejoice over her, Heaven, and the holy apostles, and the prophets, because God judged your judgment on her.

¹⁴ Fear not, worm of Jacob, men of Israel; I will help you; states Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

³ For I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt for your atonement; Ethiopia and Seba instead of you.

¹⁴ So says Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down as fugitives all of them, even the Chaldeans, whose shout is in the ships.

⁶ So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: I am the First and I am the last; and there is no God except Me.

²⁶ And those who oppress you, I will feed with their own flesh: and they shall be drunk by their own blood, as with fresh wine. And all flesh shall know that I Jehovah am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

⁵ For your Maker is your husband; Jehovah of Hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of all the earth.

¹¹ For Jehovah has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of the one stronger than he.

³³ So says Jehovah of hosts, The sons of Israel and the sons of Judah are oppressed together. Yea, all who captured them held them fast, they refused to let them go. ³⁴ Their Redeemer is strong, Jehovah of Hosts is His name. He shall surely plead their cause, so that He may give rest to the land, and make to tremble the dwellers of Babylon.

⁹ He keeps the feet of His saints, and the wicked are silenced in darkness; for man does not become mighty by power.

¹⁷ Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called upon You; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.

¹⁰ Be still and know that I am God! I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.

¹⁰ For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light.

¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁰ It shall never be inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation. And the Arabian shall not pitch a tent there, nor shall the shepherds make flocks lie down there.

⁴ you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: How the exacter, the gold gatherer, has ceased!

²³ Also I will make it a possession of the hedgehog and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, says Jehovah of Hosts.

¹ Go down and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the earth; a throne is not to the daughter of the Chaldeans; for they shall not again call you tender and delicate.

⁷ And you said, I shall be a mistress forever, until you did not set these things on your heart, and not did remember its end.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities; and let us stand still there. For Jehovah our God has made us stand still there, and He has made us drink poisonous water, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

¹⁰ And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

¹ How alone sits the city that was full of people! She has become like a widow, great among the nations; A noblewoman among the provinces has become a payer of tribute.

³⁷ You O king are the king of kings. For the God of Heaven has given you the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the honor. ³⁸ And wherever the sons of men, the animals of the field, and the birds of the sky dwell, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

²⁰ But Jehovah is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

¹³ All flesh, be silent before Jehovah. For He is raised up out of His holy habitation.

¹² And he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here, not having a wedding garment? But he was speechless. ¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Binding his feet and hands, take him away and throw him out into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames, wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

³ And he carried me away into a desert, by the Spirit. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and being gilded with gold and precious stone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominations and unclean things of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead was a name having been written: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth.

¹⁸ And the woman whom you saw is the great city, having a kingdom over the kings of the earth.

¹⁶ and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city having been clothed in linen and purple and scarlet, and having been gilded with gold and precious stone, and pearls! ¹⁷ For in one hour such great wealth was desolated. And every ship-pilot and all company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from afar, ¹⁸ and cried out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What is like the great city? ¹⁹ And they threw dust on their heads, and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, by which all those having ships in the sea were rich, from her costliness, because in one hour she was ruined.

²¹ And one strong angel lifted a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, This way, on a violent impulse, Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and it will never more still be found. ²² And the sound of harpers, and of musicians, and flutists, and of trumpeters will never more be heard in you. And every craftsman of every craft will never more be found in you. And the sound of a mill will never more be heard in you. ²³ And the light of a lamp will never more shine in you. And the voice of the bridegroom and bride will never more be heard in you. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were misled. ²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all the ones having been slain on the earth.

⁵⁰ a nation fierce of face, who will not regard the person of the aged, nor show favor to the young.

¹⁴ And David said, Because of this I am in great distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah, for many are His mercies; and do not let me fall into the hand of man.

⁹ And a prophet of Jehovah was there, Oded his name; and he went out before the army that had come in to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, in the fury of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, against Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you have slain among them in rage. It has touched to the heavens.

²⁶ For whom You have stricken, they have persecuted; and they gossip to the pain of those You pierced.

⁶ I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to plunder, and to strip off spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.

¹⁶ And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped.

¹⁷ making the world like a wilderness, and who tore down its cities; he did not open a house for his prisoners?

²⁴ Who gave Jacob to the plunderer, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, He against whom we have sinned? For they willed not to walk in His ways, and they did not obey His law. ²⁵ And He poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle; and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it on his heart.

²⁸ And I will defile the rulers of the sanctuary, and will give Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reviling.

² The Lord swallowed up all of Jacob's dwelling-places, and did not pity. In His wrath He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He made them touch to the earth. He has defiled the kingdom and its rulers.

²¹ Speak to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have forsaken shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶ By the multitude of your trade, they filled your midst with violence, and you sinned. So I cast you defiled from the height of God, and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire.

¹⁰ Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever.

¹⁶ For as you have drunk on My holy mount, so all the nations shall continually drink. Yea, they shall drink and shall swallow; and they will be as if they had not been.

¹⁵ And with great anger I am angry at the nations at ease; in that I was but a little angry, and they gave help for evil.

² for with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured again to you.

¹³ For judgment will be without mercy to the one not doing mercy. And mercy rejoices over judgment.

²⁹ If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their latter end.

²⁵ And He poured on him the fury of His anger, and the strength of battle; and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he did not lay it on his heart.

⁸ Remember this and be a man; return it on your heart, transgressors. ⁹ Remember former things from forever, for I am God, and no one else is God, even none like Me,

⁵ Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, for they shall no more call you the mistress of kingdoms.

³¹ The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their hands; and My people love it so. And what will you do at the end of it?

³ The end is now on you, and I will send My anger on you and will judge you according to your ways and will lay on you all your abominations. ⁴ And My eye shall not spare you, and I will not have pity. But I will lay your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in your midst, and you shall know that I am Jehovah. ⁵ So says the Lord Jehovah: An evil! An only evil! Behold, it has come! ⁶ An end has come, the end has come! It has awakened against you, behold, it has come! ⁷ The encirclement has come to you, O dwellers of the land. The time has come, the day of tumult is near, and not a shout of the hills. ⁸ I will soon pour out My fury on you and fulfill My anger on you. And I will judge you according to your ways and will put on you all your abominations. ⁹ And My eye shall not spare, and I will not have pity; I will put on you according to your ways and your abominations that are in your midst. And you shall know that I am Jehovah who strikes.

² Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, So says the Lord Jehovah, Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you give your heart as the heart of gods.

¹² Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him, So says the Lord Jehovah: You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. ¹³ You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and of your flutes in you. In the day you were created, they were prepared. ¹⁴ You were the anointed cherub that covers, and I had put you in the holy heights of God, where you were. You walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

³ Speak and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is mine, and I, even I, have made it.

²⁹ At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

¹⁸ O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor. ¹⁹ And for the majesty that He gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he desired, and whom he desired he kept alive. And whom he would, he set up; and whom he desired, he put down. ²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him. ²¹ And he was driven from the sons of men. And his heart was made like the animals, and his home was with the wild asses. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the heavens, until he knew that the Most High God is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He desires. ²² And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not bowed your heart, though you knew all this. ²³ But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you. And you, and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, and do not know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand your life breath and all your ways is .

⁷ And the five men departed, and came to Laish. And they saw the people living securely in its midst, according to the custom of the Sidonians, quiet and secure. And there were none to put to shame in a thing, nor possessing authority. And they were far away from the Sidonians, and they had no word with any men.

²⁷ And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest he had, and came against Laish, against a people quiet and secure. And they struck them with the mouth of the sword, and burned the city with fire.

⁵ His ways are perverted at all times. Your judgments are high from his sight; as for all his vexers, he puffs at them. ⁶ He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved! From generation to generation never will I be in evil.

⁴ My heart wanders; terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling. ⁵ Prepare the table; watch in the watchtower; eat, drink; rise up, rulers, and anoint the shield.

¹² And in that day the Lord Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning; and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth. ¹³ Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and slaughtering sheep; eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

⁹ O women who are at ease, rise up. Hear my voice; confident daughters, listen to my word.

⁶ that they may know from the rising of the sun, and to the sunset, that there is none besides Me; I am Jehovah, and there is none else;

¹⁸ For so says Jehovah, Creator of the heavens; He is God, forming the earth and making it; He makes it stand, not creating it empty, but forming it to be inhabited. I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

¹⁰ For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge perverts you, and you said in your heart, I am and none else is .

¹¹ Because you rejoice, because you exult, O destroyers of My inheritance, because you are fat like the heifer in grass, and neigh like strong ones,

³¹ Behold, I am against you, O proud one, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, for your day has come, the time I will punish you. ³² And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall burn up everything all around him.

⁵³ Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify her strong height, plunderers shall come from Me to her, states Jehovah.

²² It was you, O king, for you have become great and strong. For your greatness has grown and reaches to the heavens, and your rule is to the end of the earth.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

¹ Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles. And he drank wine before the thousand. ² When tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded the golden and silver vessels brought, those his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink with them. ³ Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank with them. ⁴ They drank wine and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, wood, and stone.

²³ But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you. And you, and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, and do not know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand your life breath and all your ways is .

³⁰ In that night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, was killed.

³⁶ And the king shall do according to his will. And he shall exalt and magnify himself above every god; he shall even speak marvelous things against the God of gods and shall prosper until the fury is fulfilled. For that which is decreed shall be done.

¹⁰ For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like fully dried straw.

⁵ And also, wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content; who widens his soul like Sheol. And he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all the nations to himself, and collects all the peoples to himself. ⁶ Shall not all of these lift up a parable against him. and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! How long, then, shall he load the pledges on himself? ⁷ Shall not those who strike you rise up suddenly, and those who shake you be aroused, and you become a prize to him? ⁸ Because you have plundered many nations, all the rest of the people shall plunder you, because of the blood of men and the violence of the land, and the city, and all those dwelling in it.

¹⁵ This is the joyful city, dwelling confidently, who says in her heart, I am, and there is yet no other . How she has become a ruin, a restingplace for animals! Everyone who passes near her shall hiss; he shall shake his hand!

¹⁸ And he said, I will do this; I will tear down my barns and I will build larger; and I will gather there all my produce and my goods. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take rest, eat, drink, and be glad. ²⁰ But God said to him, Fool! This night they demand your soul from you; and that which you prepared, to whom will it be?

²⁷ They were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark. And the flood came and destroyed all. ²⁸ And likewise, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; ²⁹ but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from the heaven and destroyed all.

⁴ the one opposing and exalting himself over everything being called God, or object of worship, so as for him "to sit in the temple of God" as God, proclaiming that he himself is God. Dan. 11:36; Eze. 28:2

³ because of the wine of the anger of her fornication which all the nations have drunk, even the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; and the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her luxury. ⁴ And I heard another voice out of Heaven saying, My people, come out of her, that you may not share in her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues;

⁵ And they also died, both of them, Mahlon and Chilion. And the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.

²⁰ And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.

¹⁹ How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away with terrors!

¹⁸ And bows shall also smash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare sons. ¹⁹ And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁰ It shall never be inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation. And the Arabian shall not pitch a tent there, nor shall the shepherds make flocks lie down there. ²¹ But the desert creatures shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and daughters of ostriches shall dwell there; and he goats shall skip there. ²² And hyenas shall cry along with his widows; and jackals in palaces of delight. Yea, her time to come is near, and her days shall not be prolonged.

²² For I will rise against them, says Jehovah of Hosts, and cut off the name and remnant, the son and grandson, from Babylon, declares Jehovah. ²³ Also I will make it a possession of the hedgehog and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, says Jehovah of Hosts.

¹² Stand now among your spells, and with your many sorceries, in which you have wearied yourself since your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps may cause quaking. ¹³ You are exhausted by your many plans; let those dividing the heavens stand up now and save you, the stargazers, making known what is coming on you into the new moons.

¹⁸ No guide is for her among all the sons she has borne; and none takes her by the hand of all the sons she made to grow. ¹⁹ Those two things came to you; who shall wail for you? Ruin and shattering and famine and the sword, who but I shall comfort you?

²⁹ And the land shall tremble and writhe in pain. For every purpose of Jehovah shall be done against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desert without inhabitant.

⁶² then you shall say, O Jehovah, You have spoken against this place to cut it off so that no dweller shall be in it, from man to animal, but it shall be a ruin forever. ⁶³ And it shall be, when you have finished crying this hook, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates. ⁶⁴ And you shall say, In this way Babylon shall sink and shall not rise from the evil that I am bringing on her. And they shall be weary. So far are the words of Jeremiah.

² And the king said to call to the horoscopists, and to the conjurers, and to the sorcerers and to the Chaldeans, to tell to the king his dreams. And they came and stood before the king.

⁷ Then the horoscopists, the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the fortunetellers came in. And I told the dream before them, but they did not make its meaning known to me.

⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the star gazers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Any man who can read this writing and reveal its meaning shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around his neck. And he shall rule third in the kingdom.

⁴ because of the many harlotries of the well favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.

¹² And as He drew near to the gate of the city, even behold, one having died was being borne, an only son born to his mother; and she was a widow. And a considerable crowd of the city was with her. ¹³ And seeing her, the Lord felt pity over her and said to her, Stop weeping.

³ For when they say, Peace and safety! Then suddenly destruction comes upon them, like travail to the pregnant woman, and they shall not at all escape.

⁹ His coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and miracles and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness in those being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth in order for them to be saved.

²⁰ And the rest of men, those not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they will not worship demons, and "golden idols, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols, which neither are able to see, nor to hear," nor to walk. Dan. 5:23; Psa. 115:4 -7; 135:15-17 ²¹ And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.

⁸ Because of this, in one day her plagues shall come: death, and mourning, and famine; and she will be consumed with fire, for the Lord God judging her is strong. ⁹ And the kings of the earth will weep for her, and will wail over her, those having fornicated and having luxuriated with her, when they see the smoke of her burning; ¹⁰ standing from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment came.

²¹ And one strong angel lifted a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, This way, on a violent impulse, Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and it will never more still be found. ²² And the sound of harpers, and of musicians, and flutists, and of trumpeters will never more be heard in you. And every craftsman of every craft will never more be found in you. And the sound of a mill will never more be heard in you. ²³ And the light of a lamp will never more shine in you. And the voice of the bridegroom and bride will never more be heard in you. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were misled.

⁸ But for the cowardly and unbelieving, and those having become foul, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the lying ones, their part will be in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone loving a lie, and making it.

¹³ And you say, What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud? ¹⁴ Clouds are a covering for Him, and He does not see; and He walks the circuit of the heavens.

¹¹ He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever.

⁷ Behold, the man who did not make God his strength; but he trusted in his many riches; he was strong in his destruction.

⁹ Surely the sons of men are vanity, the sons of man are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are higher than vanity together. ¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and do not be vain in robbery; if riches increase to you, do not set your heart on them.

⁵ They make themselves strong in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

⁷ Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, nor shall the God of Jacob observe. ⁸ Understand you beastly ones among the people; yea, you fools, when will you be wise? ⁹ He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?

⁸ Man is not a ruler over the spirit, to restrain the spirit; nor has he power in the day of death. And there is no discharge in that war, nor shall wickedness deliver its possessors.

²¹ Woe to those wise in their own eyes, and discerning in their own sight!

¹⁵ Because you have said, We have cut a covenant with death; and, We have made a vision with Sheol, when the overwhelming rod passes through it will not come to us for we have made the lie our refuge, and we have hidden in falsehood.

¹⁵ Woe to those who go deep to hide their purposes from Jehovah; yea, their works are in the dark; and they say, Who sees us? And, Who knows us?

²⁰ Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

⁴ No one calls for righteousness; and no one pleads with truth. Trusting emptiness, and speaking vanity, they conceive mischief, and give birth to evil.

²⁴ Or can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I do not see him, says Jehovah? Do I not fill the heavens and the earth, says Jehovah?

¹² And He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each man in the rooms of his image? For they are saying, Jehovah does not see us, Jehovah has forsaken the earth.

⁹ And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and of Judah is very great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see.

² Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, So says the Lord Jehovah, Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas; yet you are a man, and not God, though you give your heart as the heart of gods. ³ Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. Every one of the secret things are not hidden to you. ⁴ With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourself, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries. ⁵ By your great wisdom, by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches. ⁶ So the Lord Jehovah says this: Because you have given your heart as the heart of gods,

²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish

¹⁹ For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the understanding ones." Isa. 29:14 ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the lawyer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it has been written, "He takes the wise in their own craftiness." Job 5:13

²⁹ And it happened at midnight. Jehovah struck every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on the throne, to the first-born of the captive who was in the prison house, and every first-born of animals. ³⁰ And Pharaoh arose by night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not a dead one.

¹¹ And our foes have said, They shall not know or see until we come in the middle of them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

²² Now think of this, you who forget God, lest I tear, and not any to deliver:

³⁶ Then the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning; and, behold! They were all dead corpses.

³⁹ In their heat, I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they rejoice and sleep a never ending sleep and never awaken, says Jehovah. ⁴⁰ I shall bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. ⁴¹ How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations! ⁴² The sea has come up over Babylon, she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

²⁵ And this is the writing that was written: A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF MINAS. ²⁶ This is the meaning of the thing: A MINA: God has numbered your kingdom and finished it. ²⁷ A SHEKEL: You are weighed in the balances and found lacking. ²⁸ HALF MINAS: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. ²⁹ Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and a necklace of gold around his neck. And they made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. ³⁰ In that night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, was killed.

³⁴ And being angry, his lord delivered him up to the tormentors until he pay back all that debt to him.

⁵⁹ I say to you, in no way may you leave there until you pay even the last lepton.

³ Then remember how you received and heard, and keep, and repent. If, then, you do not watch, I will come upon you like a thief and you will not at all know what hour I come upon you.

¹¹ And Pharaoh also called wise men and the sorcerers. And they, the priests of Egypt, also performed by their secret arts.

⁷ And the priests did so with their secret arts. And they brought up the frogs on the land of Egypt.

¹⁸ And the priests performed with their secret arts to bring forth lice, and they could not. And the lice were on man and on beast. ¹⁹ And the priests said to Pharaoh, It is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.

¹¹ And the priests were not able to stand before Moses, before the inflammation. For the inflammation was on the priests and on all the Egyptians.

¹⁹ And when they say to you, Seek to the mediums, and to wizards who peep and mutter; should not a people seek to its God, than for the living to seek to the dead?

³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be empty in its midst; and I will swallow its counsel. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the knowing ones.

²⁵ frustrating the signs of liars; yea, He makes diviners mad; turning wise ones backward, and making their knowledge foolish.

⁹ But these two things shall suddenly come to you, in one day: loss of children, and widowhood; as complete they come on you, for your many sorceries, for the multitude of your great spells. ¹⁰ For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge perverts you, and you said in your heart, I am and none else is .

²⁸ But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your evil; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the star gazers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Any man who can read this writing and reveal its meaning shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around his neck. And he shall rule third in the kingdom. ⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing or make the meaning known to the king. ⁹ Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changing on him, and his nobles were perplexed.

⁸ But Elymas, the conjurer (for so his name is translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. ⁹ But Saul, who is also Paul, being filled with the Holy Spirit, and looking intently on him, ¹⁰ he said, O son of the Devil, full of all guile and of all cunning, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun until a time. And instantly a mist and darkness fell on him, and going about he sought some to lead him by the hand. ¹² Then seeing the thing happening, the proconsul believed, being astounded at the doctrine of the Lord.

⁹ His coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and miracles and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness in those being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will send to them a working of error, for them to believe the lie, ¹² that all may be judged, those not believing the truth, but who have delighted in unrighteousness.

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and being gilded with gold and precious stone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominations and unclean things of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead was a name having been written: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth. ⁶ And I saw the woman being drunk from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I marveled, seeing her with a great marveling.

¹⁵ So they are to you with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth; each one wanders to his own way; no one saves you.

¹⁰ You were wearied in the length of your way; you did not say, Despair! You found the life of your hand, so you were not sick.

⁵⁸ So says Jehovah of Hosts, The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. And the peoples shall labor as for vanity, and the peoples as for fire; and they shall be weary.

¹² She is wearied with toil, and the increase of her rust did not go out, her rust will be in the fire.

² And the king said to call to the horoscopists, and to the conjurers, and to the sorcerers and to the Chaldeans, to tell to the king his dreams. And they came and stood before the king. ³ And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. ⁴ And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will reveal the meaning. ⁵ The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The word is certainly gone from me. If you will not make known the dream and its meaning to me, you will be made into mere members, and your houses shall be made an outhouse. ⁶ But if you make known the dream, you shall receive gifts and a present and great honor from before me. Therefore, reveal the dream and its meaning to me. ⁷ They again replied and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will reveal its meaning. ⁸ The king answered and said, For I know that you buy time, that on account of all, you see the thing is certainly gone from me. ⁹ But if you will not make the dream known to me, there is one law for you. For you have agreed upon lying and deceiving words to speak before me until the time has changed. Therefore, tell me the dream, then I shall know that you can reveal the meaning to me. ¹⁰ The Chaldeans replied before the king and said, There is not a man on the earth who can reveal the king's matter, because not any king, lord, or ruler has asked such a thing from any horoscopist, or conjurer, or Chaldean.

⁷ The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans, and the star gazers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Any man who can read this writing and reveal its meaning shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around his neck. And he shall rule third in the kingdom. ⁸ Then all the king's wise men came in. But they could not read the writing or make the meaning known to the king.

¹⁵ And now the wise men and the conjurers have been thrust in before me, so that they might read this writing and make the meaning known to me. But they were not able to declare the meaning of the thing. ¹⁶ And I have heard of you, that you can interpret meanings, and unravel knots. Now if you can read the writing and reveal its meaning to me, you shall be clothed with purple and have a golden chain around your neck, and you will rule third in the kingdom.

¹³ Behold, is it not for Jehovah of hosts that the people labor only for fire? Yea, nations weary themselves only for vanity.

¹³ O my God, make them as whirling dust, as the stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ so pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm.

²⁴ So, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have cast away the law of Jehovah of Hosts; and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ And the Light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

¹⁴ And its smashing is as the smashing of a potter's vessel; when broken in pieces, he has no pity; for in its breaking there is not found a shard to carry fire from the hearth, nor to skim water from a well.

²⁴ Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they are not sown; yea, their stem is not taking root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble.

² Who raised up the righteous one from the east? He called him to His foot; He gives nations before him, and subdues kings; He gives them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow;

²⁵ Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares Jehovah, who destroys all the earth. And I will stretch out My hand on you, and will roll you down from the rocks, and I will make you a burned mountain, ²⁶ and they shall not take a stone from you for a corner, or a stone for foundations, but you shall be a waste forever, says Jehovah.

³⁰ The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting. They have dwelt in strongholds, their might has withered, they became as women; they have burned their houses, her bars are broken.

³² and that the fords are captured. And they have burned the reeds with fire, and the men of war are terrified.

⁷ And I will set my face against them. They shall go out from the fire, and the fire shall devour them. And you shall know that I am Jehovah when I set My face against them.

⁵ They shall leap like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, like the noise of flames of fire that devour the chaff, as a strong people set in order for battle.

¹⁸ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for straw. And they shall burn among them and consume them. And no survivor shall be to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken.

¹ For, behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the proud and every doer of wickedness shall be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of hosts, which will not leave root or branches to them.

²⁸ And you should not fear the ones killing the body, but not being able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him being able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

²⁶ For what will a man be benefited if he should gain the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?

²¹ And one strong angel lifted a stone like a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, This way, on a violent impulse, Babylon the great city will be thrown down, and it will never more still be found.

¹¹ yea, dogs greedy of soul; they do not know satisfaction. And they are shepherds; they know not discernment; they all look to their own way, each one for his own gain, from his own end, saying:

⁶ Flee out of the middle of Babylon; yea, each man deliver his soul. Do not be silenced in her iniquity, for the time of the vengeance of Jehovah is here; He will give her a just reward. ⁷ Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of Jehovah, making all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine, therefore the nations rage. ⁸ Suddenly Babylon has fallen, and it is broken. Wail for her, take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed. ⁹ We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go, each one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to the heavens, and is lifted up to the skies.

¹² Tarshish was your trader from the multitude of your wealth. With silver, iron, tin, and lead, they gave for your wares. ¹³ Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your merchants, they gave the souls of men and vessels of bronze for your goods. ¹⁴ From the house of Togarmah they gave horses and war horses and mules for your wares. ¹⁵ The sons of Dedan were your merchants, many coast lands were the traffic of your hand. Tusks of ivory and ebony they brought as your gift. ¹⁶ Syria was your trader from the multitude of your works; with jewels, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies they gave for your wares. ¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants; with wheat from Minnith and Pannag, and honey and oil and balm they gave for your goods. ¹⁸ Damascus was your trader in the multitude of your works, from the multitude of all your wealth, in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. ¹⁹ And Dan and Javan going about gave for your wares; smooth iron, cassia, and cane were among your goods. ²⁰ Dedan was your merchant in loose cloths for riding. ²¹ Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar, they were traders of your land in lambs and rams and goats, in them was your trade. ²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants; with the chief of all the spices, and with every precious stone and gold, they gave for your wares. ²³ Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, Chilmad were your merchants. ²⁴ They were your merchants in perfect things, in violet cloth and embroidered work, and in carpets of many colors, with tightly bound cords, and cedars among your merchandise. ²⁵ The ships of Tarshish were the travelers of your goods. And you were filled and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

¹¹ And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any more, ¹² cargo of gold, and silver, and of precious stone, and of pearls, and of fine linen, and of purple, and of silk, and of scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of very precious wood, and of bronze, and of iron, and of marble, ¹³ and cinnamon, and incenses, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine meal, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and of bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ And the ripe fruits of the lust of your soul went away from you, and all the fat things, and the bright things went away from you, and you will find them no more, not at all. ¹⁵ The merchants of these things, the ones being enriched from her, will stand from afar because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;