1Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart against me.

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Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12, Hosea 13:15, Amos 3:6, Jeremiah 4:11

2And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they are come upon her on every side in the day of her affliction.

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Jeremiah 15:7, Matthew 3:12, Jeremiah 15:7, Matthew 3:12, Isaiah 41:16

3Let not him that bendeth, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army.

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Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 50:21

4And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof.

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Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 49:26, Isaiah 13:15, Jeremiah 50:30, Isaiah 13:15

5For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord of hosts: but their land hath been filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

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Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2, Romans 11:1, Romans 11:2, Zechariah 12:6

6Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved.

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Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 50:8, Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 50:15

7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore they have staggered.

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Revelation 14:8, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:4, Revelation 17:2

8Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.

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Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 46:11, Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 46:11, Revelation 14:8

9We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.

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Jeremiah 50:16, Revelation 18:5, Jeremiah 50:16, Revelation 18:5, Isaiah 13:14

10The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.

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Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 50:28, Psalms 37:6, Psalms 37:6, Isaiah 40:2

11Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.

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Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 50:45, Jeremiah 50:45, Jeremiah 50:9

12Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

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Isaiah 13:2, Jeremiah 51:11, Isaiah 13:2, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:29

13O thou that dwellest upon many waters, rich in treasures, thy end is come for thy entire destruction.

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Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:1, Isaiah 45:3, Revelation 17:15, Isaiah 45:3

14The Lord of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying: I will fill thee with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against thee.

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Amos 6:8, Jeremiah 49:13, Joel 2:25, Jeremiah 50:15, Amos 6:8

15He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

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Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 10:16, Revelation 4:11

16When he uttereth his voice the waters are multiplied in heaven: he lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth, he hath turned lightning into rain: and hath brought forth the wind out of his treasures.

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Psalms 135:7, Psalms 135:7, Jonah 1:4, Psalms 18:13, Jonah 1:4

17Every man is become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he hath cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them.

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Jeremiah 10:14, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19, Jeremiah 10:14, Habakkuk 2:18

18They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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Zephaniah 2:11, Jeremiah 10:8, Exodus 12:12, Jeremiah 43:12, Jeremiah 43:13

19The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

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Psalms 73:26, Jeremiah 10:16, Psalms 73:26, Jeremiah 10:16, Psalms 33:12

20Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:

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Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Micah 4:13

21And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it:

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Exodus 15:1, Exodus 15:1, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 12:4

22And with thee I will break in pieces man and woman, and with thee I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with thee I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin:

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2 Chronicles 36:17, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 13:18, Ezekiel 9:6

23And with thee I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, and with thee I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, and with thee I will break in pieces captains and rulers.

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Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:57

24And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:15, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:4, Revelation 18:24

25Behold I come against thee, thou destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which corruptest the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

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Revelation 8:8, Revelation 8:8, Zechariah 4:7, Zechariah 4:7, Jeremiah 50:31

26And they shall not take of thee a stone for the corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be destroyed for ever, saith the Lord.

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Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:22, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:22, Jeremiah 51:43

27Set ye up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the stinging locust.

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Genesis 10:3, Genesis 10:3, Genesis 8:4, 1 Chronicles 1:6, Genesis 8:4

28Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion.

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Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:11, Daniel 6:8, Esther 1:3, Daniel 5:28

29And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of Babylon desert and uninhabitable.

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Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:12, Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 51:43

30The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.

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Nahum 3:13, Nahum 3:13, Jeremiah 50:36, Jeremiah 50:37, Jeremiah 50:36

31One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:

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2 Samuel 18:19, 2 Samuel 18:31, 2 Chronicles 30:6, 2 Samuel 18:19, 2 Samuel 18:31

32And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

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Jeremiah 51:30, Jeremiah 50:37, Jeremiah 50:38, Isaiah 44:27, Jeremiah 51:30

33For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

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Isaiah 21:10, Isaiah 21:10, Joel 3:13, Hosea 6:11, Joel 3:13

34Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up, he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he hath cast me out.

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Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 51:44, Job 20:15

35The 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.

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Revelation 18:20, Jeremiah 50:29, Revelation 18:20, Jeremiah 50:29, Matthew 7:2

36Therefore 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.

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Romans 12:19, Romans 12:19, Psalms 140:12, Jeremiah 50:38, Psalms 140:12

37And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

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Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:2, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 25:9, Revelation 18:21

38They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.

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Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 2:15, Psalms 58:6, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:13

39In 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.

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Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 25:27, Nahum 1:10

40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.

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Jeremiah 50:27, Jeremiah 50:27, Psalms 37:20, Isaiah 34:6, Psalms 44:22

41How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

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Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:26, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 49:25

42The sea is come up over Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

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Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Daniel 9:26

43Her cities are become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it.

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Isaiah 13:20, Jeremiah 2:6, Isaiah 13:20, Jeremiah 2:6, Jeremiah 51:29

44And 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.

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Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 50:2

45Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.

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Revelation 18:4, Jeremiah 51:6, Isaiah 48:20, Revelation 18:4, Jeremiah 51:6

46And 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.

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2 Kings 19:7, Isaiah 13:3, Isaiah 13:5, Isaiah 19:2, 2 Kings 19:7

47Therefore 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.

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Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:52, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:2

48And 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.

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Revelation 18:20, Isaiah 44:23, Revelation 18:20, Isaiah 44:23, Jeremiah 50:3

49And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth.

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Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 50:29, Psalms 137:8

50You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

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Jeremiah 44:28, Jeremiah 44:28, Psalms 122:6, Psalms 122:6, Revelation 18:4

51We 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.

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Lamentations 1:10, Lamentations 1:10, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 79:4

52Therefore behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan:

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Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 50:38, Jeremiah 50:38, Ezekiel 30:24

53If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.

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Genesis 11:4, Jeremiah 49:16, Genesis 11:4, Jeremiah 49:16, Jeremiah 51:25

54The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

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Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 50:22, Jeremiah 48:3, Jeremiah 48:5, Jeremiah 50:46

55Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:

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Jeremiah 25:10, Jeremiah 25:10, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Jeremiah 51:42

56Because the spoiler is come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay.

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Psalms 46:9, Jeremiah 51:6, Psalms 94:1, Psalms 94:2, Habakkuk 2:8

57And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.

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Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 48:15, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 48:15

58Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and shall perish.

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Jeremiah 51:64, Habakkuk 2:13, Jeremiah 51:64, Habakkuk 2:13, Jeremiah 51:44

59The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with king Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the prophecy.

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Jeremiah 32:12, Jeremiah 36:4, Jeremiah 32:12, Jeremiah 36:4, Jeremiah 28:1

60And Jeremiah wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon.

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Habakkuk 2:2, Habakkuk 2:3, Isaiah 30:8, Jeremiah 36:32, Jeremiah 30:2

61And Jeremiah said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,

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Colossians 4:16, Mark 13:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:18, Revelation 1:3, Matthew 24:1

62Thou shalt say: O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein, and that it should be desolate for ever.

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Jeremiah 50:3, Jeremiah 50:13, Jeremiah 50:3, Jeremiah 50:13, Revelation 18:20

63And when thou shalt have made an end of reading this book, thou shalt tie a stone to it, and shalt throw it into the midst of the Euphrates:

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Revelation 18:21, Revelation 18:21, Jeremiah 19:10, Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 19:10

64And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:58, Job 31:40, Job 31:40, Revelation 18:21