The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 51:52 (KJV)

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.

 

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Jeremiah 51:53 (KJV)
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.

 

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Jeremiah 51:54 (NKJV)
The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,

 

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Jeremiah 51:55 (NIV)

The Lord will destroy Babylon; he will silence her noisy din.
Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound.

 

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Jeremiah 51:56 (NKJV)
Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men are taken. Every one of their bows is broken; For the LORD is the God of recompense, He will surely repay.

 

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Jeremiah 51:57 (HCSB)

I will make her princes and sages drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors.
Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up.This is the King’s declaration;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.

 

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Jeremiah 51:58 (HCSB)

This is what Yahweh of Hosts says:

Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished, and her high gates consumed by fire.
The peoples will have labored for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves only to feed the fire.

 

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Jeremiah 51:59 (NASB)
The command that Jeremiah the prophet gave Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (And Seraiah was quartermaster.)

 

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Jeremiah 51:60 (NKJV)
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.

 

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Jeremiah 51:61 (KJV)
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words,

 

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Jeremiah 51:62 (NKJV)
then you shall say, ‘O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’

 

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Jeremiah 51:63 (BSB)
When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.

 

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Jeremiah 51:64 (BSB)
Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’ ” Here end the words of Jeremiah.

 

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Jeremiah 52:1 (NASB)
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

 

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Jeremiah 52:2 (NASB)
He did evil in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with everything that Jehoiakim had done.

 

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Jeremiah 52:3 (NKJV)
For because of the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, till He finally cast them out from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

 

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Jeremiah 52:4 (NKJV)
Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.

 

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Jeremiah 52:5 (CSB)

The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

 

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Jeremiah 52:6 (CSB)

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food

 

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Jeremiah 52:7 (CSB)

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled.They left the city at night by way of the city gate
between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their
way along the route to the Arabah.