1The word that the Lord spake, concerning Babel, and cocerning the land of the Caldeans by the ministerie of Ieremiah the Prophet.

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Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:27, Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 13:1

2Declare among the nations, and publish it, and set vp a standart, proclaime it and conceale it not: say, Babel is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken downe: her idols are confounded, and their images are burst in pieces.

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Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 21:9, Isaiah 21:9, Jeremiah 51:47

3For out of the North there commeth vp a nation against her, which shall make her lande waste, and none shall dwel therein: they shall flee, and depart, both man and beast.

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Jeremiah 51:11, Zephaniah 1:3, Jeremiah 51:11, Zephaniah 1:3, Jeremiah 50:9

4In those daies, and at that time, sayeth the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they, and the children of Iudah together, going, and weeping shall they goe, and seeke the Lord their God.

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Hosea 1:11, Hosea 3:5, Jeremiah 31:31, Hosea 1:11, Hosea 3:5

5They shall aske the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let vs cleaue to the Lord in a perpetuall couenant that shall not be forgotten.

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Jeremiah 32:40, Jeremiah 32:40, Hebrews 8:6, Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 8:6

6My people hath beene as lost sheepe: their shepheards haue caused them to goe astray, and haue turned them away to the mountaines: they haue gone from mountaine to hil, and forgotten their resting place.

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Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah 53:6, Matthew 9:36, Matthew 9:36, Ezekiel 34:14

7Al that found them, haue deuoured them, and their enemies saide, We offende not, because they haue sinned against the Lord, the habitation of iustice, euen the Lord the hope of their fathers.

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Jeremiah 14:8, Jeremiah 2:3, Jeremiah 14:8, Jeremiah 2:3, Zechariah 11:5

8Flee from the middes of Babel, and depart out of the lande of the Caldeans, and be ye as the hee goates before the flocke.

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

9For loe, I will raise, and cause to come vp against Babel a multitude of mightie natios from the North countrey, and they shall set themselues in aray against her, whereby shee shall be taken: their arrowes shall be as of a strong man, which is expert, for none shall returne in vaine.

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Jeremiah 51:1, Jeremiah 51:4, Jeremiah 15:14, 2 Samuel 1:22, Isaiah 21:2

10And Caldea shalbe a spoyle: all that spoyle her, shalbe satisfied, sayth the Lord.

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Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 25:12, Isaiah 33:4, Isaiah 33:23, Jeremiah 27:7

11Because yee were glad and reioyced in destroying mine heritage, and because ye are growen fatte, as the calues in the grasse, and neied like strong horses,

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Isaiah 47:6, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 46:21, Jeremiah 50:17, Psalms 83:1

12Therefore your mother shall bee sore confounded, and she that bare you, shall be ashamed: beholde, the vttermost of the nations shalbe a desert, a drie land, and a wildernes.

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Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 51:43, Jeremiah 25:26, Isaiah 13:20, Isaiah 13:22

13Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but shall be wholy desolate: euery one that goeth by Babel, shall be astonished, and hisse at all her plagues.

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Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 49:17, Jeremiah 49:17, Zephaniah 2:15

14Put your selues in aray against Babel rounde about: all ye that bende the bowe, shoote at her, spare no arrowes: for shee hath sinned against the Lord.

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Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 50:29, Habakkuk 2:17, Habakkuk 2:17, Jeremiah 50:7

15Crie against her round about: she hath giuen her hand: her foundations are fallen, and her walles are destroyed: for it is the vengeance of the Lord: take vengeance vpon her: as she hath done, doe vnto her.

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Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 51:6, Jeremiah 46:10, Revelation 18:6

16Destroy the sower from Babel, and him that handleth the sieth in the time of haruest: because of the sworde of the oppressor they shall turne euery one to his people, and they shall flee euery one to his owne land.

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Isaiah 13:14, Isaiah 13:14, Jeremiah 51:9, Jeremiah 46:16, Jeremiah 51:9

17Israel is like scattered sheepe: the lions haue dispersed them: first the King of Asshur hath deuoured him, and last this Nebuchad-nezzar King, of Babel hath broken his bones.

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Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 2:15, 2 Kings 18:9, 2 Kings 18:13, Joel 3:2

18Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Behold, I wil visit ye King of Babel, and his land, as I haue visited the King of Asshur.

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Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 10:12, Zephaniah 2:13, Zephaniah 2:15, Isaiah 37:36

19And I will bring Israel againe to his habitation: hee shall feede on Carmel and Bashan, and his soule shall be satisfied vpon the mount Ephraim and Gilead.

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Ezekiel 34:13, Ezekiel 34:14, Micah 7:14, Jeremiah 31:6, Amos 9:14

20In those daies, and at that time, sayeth the Lord, the iniquitie of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sinnes of Iudah, and they shall not be founde: for I will be mercifull vnto them, whome I reserue.

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Micah 7:19, Micah 7:19, Jeremiah 31:34, Jeremiah 31:34, Isaiah 43:25

21Goe vp against the lande of the rebelles, euen against it, and against the inhabitantes of Pekod: destroy, and lay it waste after them, saieth the Lord, and doe according to all that I haue commanded thee.

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Ezekiel 23:23, Ezekiel 23:23, 2 Samuel 16:11, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 Samuel 15:24

22A crie of battell is in the land, and of great destruction.

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Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:21, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:21, Jeremiah 51:54

23Howe is the hammer of the whole world destroied, and broken! howe is Babel become desolate among the nations!

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Jeremiah 51:20, Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 51:20, Jeremiah 51:24, Revelation 18:16

24I haue snared thee, and thou art taken, O Babel, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striuen against the Lord.

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Job 9:4, Daniel 5:30, Daniel 5:31, Job 9:4, Daniel 5:30

25The Lord hath opened his treasure, and hath brought foorth the weapons of his wrath: for this is the woorke of the Lord God of hostes in the lande of the Caldeans.

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Jeremiah 51:55, Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 51:55, Jeremiah 51:25, Jeremiah 50:15

26Come against her from the vtmost border: open her store houses: treade on her as on sheaues, and destroy her vtterly: let nothing of her be left.

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Isaiah 14:23, Isaiah 14:23, Jeremiah 50:10, Isaiah 45:3, Jeremiah 50:10

27Destroy all her bullockes: let them goe downe to the slaughter. Wo vnto them, for their day is come, and the time of their visitation.

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Isaiah 34:7, Jeremiah 46:21, Isaiah 34:7, Jeremiah 46:21, Psalms 22:12

28The voyce of them that flee, and escape out of the lande of Babel to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, and the vengeance of his Temple.

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Isaiah 48:20, Lamentations 1:10, Jeremiah 50:15, Isaiah 48:20, Lamentations 1:10

29Call vp the archers against Babel: al ye that bend the bow, besiege it rounde about: let none thereof escape: recompence her according to her worke, and according to all that she hath done, doe vnto her: for she hath bene proud against the Lord, euen against the holy one of Israel.

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Jeremiah 51:56, Isaiah 47:10, Jeremiah 51:56, Isaiah 47:10, Daniel 4:37

30Therefore shall her yong men fall in the streetes, and al her men of warre shalbe destroied in that day, sayeth the Lord.

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Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 49:26, Jeremiah 18:21, Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 18:21

31Beholde, I come vnto thee, O proude man, saith the Lord God of hostes: for thy day is come, euen the time that I will visite thee.

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Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 21:13, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 21:13, James 4:6

32And the proude shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him vp: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall deuoure all round about him.

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Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 49:27, Jeremiah 21:14, Jeremiah 49:27, Isaiah 10:12

33Thus saieth the Lord of hosts, The children of Israel, and the children of Iudah were oppressed together: and all that tooke them captiues, held them, and would not let them goe.

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Isaiah 14:17, Exodus 9:2, Exodus 9:3, Isaiah 14:17, Exodus 9:2

34But their strong redeemer, whose Name is the Lord of hostes, he shall maintaine their cause, that he may giue rest to the lande, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babel.

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Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 41:14, Jeremiah 51:36, Isaiah 47:4

35A sworde is vpon the Caldeans, sayeth the Lord, and vpon the inhabitants of Babel, and vpon her princes, and vpon her wise men.

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Jeremiah 47:6, Jeremiah 47:6, Jeremiah 51:57, Daniel 5:7, Daniel 5:8

36A sworde is vpon the soothsaiers, and they shall dote: a sword is vpon her strong men, and they shalbe afraide.

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Jeremiah 49:22, Jeremiah 49:22, Nahum 3:13, Isaiah 44:25, Nahum 3:13

37A sworde is vpon their horses and vpon their charets, and vpon all the multitude that are in the middes of her, and they shall be like women: a sworde is vpon her treasures, and they shall be spoyled.

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Jeremiah 51:30, Jeremiah 51:30, Nahum 3:13, Nahum 3:13, Jeremiah 25:20

38A drought is vpon her waters, and they shall be dried vp: for it is the lande of grauen images, and they dote vpon their idoles.

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Jeremiah 50:2, Revelation 16:12, Isaiah 44:27, Jeremiah 50:2, Revelation 16:12

39Therefore the Ziims with the Iims shall dwel there, and the ostriches shall dwel therein: for it shall be no more inhabited, neither shall it be inhabited from generation vnto generation.

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Revelation 18:2, Isaiah 13:20, Isaiah 13:22, Revelation 18:2, Isaiah 13:20

40As God destroied Sodom and Gomorah with the places thereof neere about, sayeth the Lord: so shall no man dwell theere, neither shall the sonne of man remaine therein.

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Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Jude 1:7

41Beholde, a people shall come from the North, and a great nation, and many Kings shall be raised vp from the coastes of the earth.

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Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, Jeremiah 50:9

42They shall holde the bowe and the buckeler: they are cruell and vnmercifull: their voyce shall roare like the sea, and they shall ride vpon horses, and be put in aray like men to the battell against thee, O daughter of Babel.

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Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 5:30, Jeremiah 8:16, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 47:3

43The King of Babel hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: sorow came vpon him, euen sorowe as of a woman in trauaile.

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Jeremiah 51:31, Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 51:31, Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 49:22

44Beholde, hee shall come vp like a lyon from the swelling of Iorden vnto the strong habitation: for I will make Israel to rest, and I will make them to haste away from her: and who is a chosen man that I may appoynt against her? for who is like me, and who will appoynt me the time? and who is the shepheard that will stande before me?

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Jeremiah 49:19, Jeremiah 49:21, Jeremiah 49:19, Jeremiah 49:21, Exodus 15:11

45Therefore heare the counsell of the Lord that hee hath deuised against Babel, and his purpose that hee hath conceiued against the lande of the Caldeans: surely the least of the flocke shall drawe them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

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Jeremiah 49:20, Jeremiah 49:20, Jeremiah 51:10, Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:10

46At the noyse of the winning of Babel the earth is moued, and the crye is heard among the nations.

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Jeremiah 49:21, Jeremiah 49:21, Ezekiel 31:16, Ezekiel 26:18, Revelation 18:9