19 The portion of Iacob is not like them, for he is the former of all things, and yasharala (israel) is the rod of his inheritance: yahawah of hostes is his Name.
20 Thou art my battel-axe and weapons of warre: for with thee will I breake in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdomes;
21 And with thee will I breake in pieces the horse and his rider, and with thee will I breake in pieces the charet, and his rider;
22 With thee also will I breake in pieces man and woman, and with thee will I breake in pieces old and yong, and with thee will I breake in pieces the yong man and the maide.
23 I will also breake in pieces with thee, the shepheard and his flocke, and with thee will I breake in pieces the husbandman, and his yoke of oxen, and with thee will I breake in pieces Captaines and rulers.
24 And I will render vnto Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Caldea, all their euil that they haue done in Zion in your sight, saith yahawah.
25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountaine, saith yahawah, which destroiest all the earth, and I wil stretch out mine hand vpon thee, and roule thee downe from the rockes, and will make thee a burnt mountaine.
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations, but thou shalt be desolate for euer, saith yahawah.
27 Set ye vp a standart in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kingdomes of Ararat, Minni, & Ashchenaz: appoint a captaine against her: cause her horses to come vp as the rough caterpillers.
28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captaines thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for euery purpose of yahawah shalbe performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mightie men of Babylon haue forborne to fight: they haue remained in their holdes: their might hath failed, they became as women: they haue burnt their dwelling places: her barres are broken.
31 One poste shall runne to meet another, and one messenger to meete another, to shew the king of Babylon that his citie is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reedes they haue burnt with fire, and the men of warre are afrighted.
33 For thus saith yahawah of hostes, the power of yasharala (israel); The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floore; it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her haruest shall come…
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh, be vpon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood vpon the inhabitants of Caldea, shall Ierusalem say.
36 Therefore thus saith yahawah, Behold, I wil plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp her sea, and make her springs drie.
37 And Babylon shal become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roare together like lions; they shall yell as lions whelps.
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith yahawah.
40 I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates.
41 How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
42 The sea is come vp vpon Babylon: she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.
43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doeth any sonne of man passe thereby.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed vp, and the nations shall not flow together any more vnto him, yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45 My people, goe ye out of the midst of her, and deliuer ye euery man his soule frō the fierce anger of yahawah,
46 And lest your heart faint, and ye feare for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: a rumour shall both come one yeere, and after that in another yeere shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
47 Therefore behold, the dayes come, that I will doe iudgment vpon the grauen images of Babylon, and her whole land shall bee confounded, and all her slaine shall fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heauen and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come vnto her from the North, saith yahawah.
49 As Babylon hath caused the slaine of yasharala (israel) to fall: so at Babylon shall fall the slaine of all the earth.
50 Ye that haue escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember yahawah afarre off: and let Ierusalem come into your mind…
52 Wherfore behold, the dayes come, saith yahawah, that I will do iudgment vpon her grauen images, and through all her land the wounded shall grone.
53 Though Babylon should mount vp to heauen, and though shee should fortifie the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come vnto her, saith yahawah.
54 A sound of a crie commeth from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Caldeans.
55 Because yahawah hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voyce when her waues doe roare like great waters, a noise of their voice is vttered.
56 Because the spoiler is come vpon her, euen vpon Babylon, and her mightie men are taken, euery one of their bowes is broken, for yahawah the power of recompenses shall surely requite.
57 And I will make drunke her princes and her wise men, her captaines and her rulers, and her mightie men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the king, whose Name is yahawah of hosts.
58 Thus saith yahawah of hosts, The broad walles of Babylon shalbe vtterly broken, and her high gates shal be burnt with fire, and the people shall labour in vaine, and the folke in the fire, and they shall be weary…
64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sinke, and shall not rise from the euill that I will bring vpon her: and they shall be wearie. Thus farre are the words of Ieremiah.