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Ärende: Bible Reading for August 20 [1/2]
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

CHAPTER 50
Jeremiah 50:1
1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the
Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah 50:2
2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish,
and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach  is broken
in pieces;  her idols  are confounded,  her images  are broken in pieces.
Jeremiah 50:3
3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make
her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall
depart, both man and beast. Jeremiah 50:4
4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall
come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall
go,  and seek  the LORD  their God. Jeremiah 50:5
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come,
and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be
forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:6
6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go
astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from
mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. Jeremiah 50:7
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend
not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even
the LORD, the hope of their fathers. Jeremiah 50:8
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the
Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. Jeremiah 50:9
9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of
great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array
against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a
mighty expert man;  none shall return  in vain. Jeremiah 50:10
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith
the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:11
11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage,
because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Jeremiah 50:12
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed:
behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a
desert.
Jeremiah 50:13
13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be
wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss
at all her plagues.
Jeremiah 50:14
14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the
bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:15
15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are
fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take
vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do  unto her. Jeremiah 50:16
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time
of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his
people,  and they shall flee  every one  to his own land. Jeremiah 50:17
17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king
of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 
hath broken his bones.
Jeremiah 50:18
18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of
Assyria.
Jeremiah 50:19
19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel
and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
Jeremiah 50:20
20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel
shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they
shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. Jeremiah 50:21
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the
inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and
do according to all that I have commanded thee. Jeremiah 50:22
22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. Jeremiah 50:23
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations! Jeremiah 50:24
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou
wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven
against the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:25
25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his
indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the
Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 50:26
26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up
as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. Jeremiah 50:27
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for
their day is come, the time of their visitation. Jeremiah 50:28
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to
declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 50:29
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp
against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to
her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been
proud  against the LORD,  against the Holy One  of Israel. Jeremiah 50:30
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war
shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD. Jeremiah 50:31
31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts:
for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. Jeremiah 50:32
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and
I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
Jeremiah 50:33
33 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of
Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast;
they refused to let them go.
Jeremiah 50:34
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly
plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the
inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:35
35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of
Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. Jeremiah 50:36
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty
men; and they shall be dismayed. Jeremiah 50:37
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the
mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a
sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed. Jeremiah 50:38
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land
of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jeremiah 50:39
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands
shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more
inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
Jeremiah 50:40
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith
the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell
therein.
Jeremiah 50:41
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many
kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. Jeremiah 50:42
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew
mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses,
every one put in array, like a man to the battle,  against thee, O daughter of
Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:43
43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed
feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. Jeremiah
50:44
44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the
habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and
who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who
will appoint me the time?  and who is that shepherd  that will stand before 
me?
Jeremiah 50:45
45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against
Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the
Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall
make their habitation  desolate  with them. Jeremiah 50:46
46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is
heard among the nations.
CHAPTER 51
Jeremiah 51:1
1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against
them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying
wind;
Jeremiah 51:2
2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her
land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. Jeremiah
51:3
3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that
lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy
ye utterly all her host.
Jeremiah 51:4
4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are
thrust through in her streets.
Jeremiah 51:5
5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of
hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:6
6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut
off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will
render unto her a recompence.
Jeremiah 51:7
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth
drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Jeremiah 51:8
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her
pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:9
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us
go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and
is lifted up even to the skies. Jeremiah 51:10
10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in
Zion the work of the LORD our God. Jeremiah 51:11
11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the
spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy
it; because it is the vengeance  of the LORD,  the vengeance  of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:12
12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up
the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done 
that which he spake  against the inhabitants  of Babylon. Jeremiah 51:13
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is
come, and the measure of thy covetousness. Jeremiah 51:14
14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee
with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
Jeremiah 51:15
15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his
wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. Jeremiah 51:16
16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens;
and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh
lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth  the wind  out of his treasures.
Jeremiah 51:17
17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the
graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in
them.
Jeremiah 51:18
18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they
shall perish.
Jeremiah 51:19
19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things:
and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah 51:20
20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in
pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; Jeremiah 51:21
21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee
will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; Jeremiah 51:22
22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I
break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young
man and the maid;
Jeremiah 51:23
23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with
thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee
will I break in pieces captains and rulers. Jeremiah 51:24
24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all
their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD. Jeremiah
51:25
25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which
destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll
thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. Jeremiah 51:26
26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for
foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD. Jeremiah
51:27
27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations,
prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of
Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;  appoint  a captain  against her; cause the
horses  to come up  as the rough  caterpillers. Jeremiah 51:28
28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains
thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. Jeremiah
51:29
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall
be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without
an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:30
30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their
holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her
dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. Jeremiah 51:31
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to
shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, Jeremiah 51:32
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire,
and the men of war are affrighted. Jeremiah 51:33
33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon
is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the
time of her harvest  shall come. Jeremiah 51:34
34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he
hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath
filled his belly with my delicates,  he hath cast me out. Jeremiah 51:35
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the
inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall
Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah 51:36
36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take
vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
Jeremiah 51:37
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an
astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Jeremiah 51:38
38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
Jeremiah 51:39
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that
they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:40
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
Jeremiah 51:41
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised!
how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! Jeremiah 51:42
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the
waves thereof.
Jeremiah 51:43
43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no
man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. Jeremiah 51:44
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth
that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any
more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. Jeremiah 51:45
45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul
from the fierce anger of the LORD. Jeremiah 51:46
46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in
the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year
shall come a rumour,  and violence  in the land,  ruler  against ruler.
Jeremiah 51:47
47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven
images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 51:48
48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for
Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:49
49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall
the slain of all the earth.
Jeremiah 51:50
50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD
afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. Jeremiah 51:51
51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our
faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
Jeremiah 51:52
52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment
upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Jeremiah 51:53
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the
height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the
LORD.
Jeremiah 51:54
54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of
the Chaldeans:
Jeremiah 51:55
55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great
voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is
uttered:
Jeremiah 51:56
56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men
are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences
shall surely requite.
Jeremiah 51:57
57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her
rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not
wake, saith the King, whose name  is the LORD  of hosts. Jeremiah 51:58
58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly
broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people  shall
labour  in vain,  and the folk  in  the fire,  and they shall be weary.
Jeremiah 51:59
59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the
son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah  into Babylon  in
the fourth  year  of his reign.  And this Seraiah  was a quiet prince.
Jeremiah 51:60
60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even
all these words that are written against Babylon. Jeremiah 51:61
61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see,
and shalt read all these words;
Jeremiah 51:62
62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it
off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be
desolate for ever.
Jeremiah 51:63
63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou
shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: Jeremiah
51:64
64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the
evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the
words of Jeremiah.
CHAPTER 52
Jeremiah 52:1
1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he

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