he hath cast me out.

But now the iniquity of me is found upon Babylon, and my flesh, saith the inhabitant of Zion, and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will accomplish thy cause, and avenge thee; I will dry up their sea, and make their fountains dry.

And Babylon shall become a heap of stones, and a dragon’s habitation, and a wonder, and a whistle; that no man dwell therein.

They shall roar together as lions, and shout as young lions.

I will put them to the heat with their drinking, and will make them drunken, and they shall be merry, and sleep an everlasting sleep, from whence they shall never awake, saith the LORD.

I will bring them down as lambs to the slaughter, as rams with goats.

How is Seshach so won, and the famed in all the earth so taken! How has Babel become such a wonder among the nations!

A sea is gone over Babylon; and she is covered with the multitude of the same waves.

Their cities are become a wilderness, and a dry and desolate land, in the land where no man dwelleth within, and where no man walketh within.

For I have visited the Bel of Babylon, and have plucked out of his mouth that which he devoured: and the heathen shall run no more unto him: for the walls of Babylon also are broken down.

Go forth, my people, and save every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Or else your heart shall wax faint, and be troubled for the cry that shall be heard in the land.
For there shall be a cry in one year, and after that in another year, a cry of violence in the land; and there shall be one prince against another.

Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will punish the idols of Babylon, and all their land shall be ashamed, and their slain shall lie within.

And the earth and all that is therein shall shout for joy over Babylon, because her destroyers are come from the north, saith the LORD.

And as Babylon hath killed the slain in Israel, so shall the slain be killed in Babylon throughout all the land.

Go ye therefore, ye that are escaped from the sword, and tarry not. Remember the LORD in a far country, and let Jerusalem be in your hearts.

We were put to shame, when we heard the reproach, and the shame covered our faces, when
the strangers came upon the sanctuary of the house of the LORD.

Therefore, behold, the time cometh, saith the LORD, that I will visit their idols; and throughout all the land the deadly wounded shall groan.

And if Babylon ascend up to heaven, and establish her power on high, yet shall destroyers come upon her from me, saith the LORD.

There is a cry in Babylon, and a great lamentation in the land of the Chaldeans.

For the LORD hath destroyed Babylon; he hath destroyed her with a great cry and with a great tumult; her waves roar as the great waters.

For the destroyer is come upon Babylon; her mighty men are taken, her bows are broken: for the God of vengeance, the LORD, payeth them.

I will make their princes, and their wise men, and their lords, and their captains, and their valiant men, drunken; and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall never awake, saith the King, whose name is LORD of hosts.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The walls of great Babylon shall be broken down, and the high gates thereof shall be set on fire; and the labour of the nations shall be lost, and that which the nations have built with their labour shall be burnt up.

This is the word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah the son of Mahseah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was a peaceable prince.

And Jeremiah wrote all the evil that should come upon Babylon in a book, even all these words that are written against Babylon,

And Jeremiah said unto Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, watch and read all these words.

And say, Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that no man nor beast should dwell therein, but that it should be desolate for ever.

And when thou hast finished reading the book, bind a stone unto it, and cast it into the river.

And say, So shall Babylon be sunk, and shall not rise again from the evil that I will bring upon her, but shall perish. Thus far off hath Jeremiah spoken.
(Jeremiah)
Chapter 52
Destruction of the city of Jerusalem. Jehoiachin’s exaltation.

Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal, a daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Jehoiakim had done.

For the anger of the LORD was upon Jerusalem and Judah, until he cast them out of his sight.
And Zedekiah fell away from the king of Babylon.

And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth day of the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his host against Jerusalem, and besieged her, and made a fort round about.

And so the city remained besieged until the eleventh year of Zedekiah the king.

And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and the people of the land had no more to eat.

And they entered into the city, and all the men of war gave flight, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, unto the king’s garden. And the Chaldeans were round about the city.

And as they went by the way of the field, the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and took Zedekiah in the field near Jericho: and all his army was scattered from him.

And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblath, which is in the land of Hemath: and he pronounced judgment against him.

And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and slew all the princes of Judah in Riblath.

And he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with two chains: and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him in prison, until he died.
12: And it came to pass on the tenth day of the fifth month, which is the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, that Nebuzar-Adan the captain of the guard, which was always about the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; all the great houses burnt he with fire.

And all the host of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the guard brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

And the poor people, and the rest of the people that were left in the city, and them that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away captive.

And of the poor of the country Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left husbandmen and husbandmen.

And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

And they took away the caldrons, and the shovels, and the knives, and the basons, and the ladles, and all the vessels of brass that were used in the service.

And the centurion took the vessels of gold and silver, and the censers, and the basons, and the censers, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the bowls,

The two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve oxen of brass that stood for the stalls, which king Solomon had made for the house of the LORD. All these vessels of brass were exceeding great.

And the two pillars were every one eighteen cubits high, and a cord twelve cubits long reached round about it, and was four fingers thick, and hollow within.

And there stood upon every one a brass knob five cubits high; and the ripening and the pomegranates were upon every knob round about, all of brass: and one pillar was like unto another, and the pomegranates also.
23: There were ninety and six pomegranates: and there were an hundred of all the pomegranates in one bunch round about.

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the priest of the first order, and Zephaniah the priest of the second order, and three doorkeepers.

And a chamberlain out of the city, which was set over the men of war, and seven men that should be about the king, which were found in the city, and Shopher the captain of the host, which was over the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land, which were found in the city.

And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them unto the king of Babylon to Riblath.

And the king of Babylon smote them dead in Riblath, which is in the land of Hemath. So Judah was carried away out of his land.

These are the people which Nebuchadnezzar carried away, even in the seventh year three thousand and three hundred and twenty Jews,

And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty and two souls out of Jerusalem.

And in the twenty and third