The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Jeremiah
51:35. The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the
habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith
Jerusalem.
51:36. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and
will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, I and
will dry up her spring.
51:37. And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for
dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.
51:38. They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes
like young lions.
51:39. In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk,
that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no
more, saith the Lord.
51:40. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams
with kids.
51:41. How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth
surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
51:42. The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the
multitude of the waves thereof.
51:43. Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and
desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.
51:44. And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth
out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall
no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall.
51:45. Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save
his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.
51:46. And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall
be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after
this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon
ruler.
51:47. Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of
Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall
fall in the midst of her.
51:48. And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them
shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the
north, saith the Lord.
51:49. And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so
of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.
51:50. You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still:
remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51:51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath
covered our faces: because strangers are come upon the sanctuaries of
the house of the Lord.
51:52. Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit
her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:
51:53. If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength
on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.
51:54. The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the
land of the Chaldeans:
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