24:051:031 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,
24:051:032 And that the passages are stopped, and
the reeds they have
burned
with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
24:051:033 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.
24:051:034 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.
24:051:035 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.
24:051:036 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.
24:051:037 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace
for dragons,
an
astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
24:051:038 They shall roar together like lions:
they shall yell as lions’
whelps.
24:051:039 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.
24:051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the
slaughter, like rams
with
he goats.
24:051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise
of the whole
earth
surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among
the
nations!
24:051:042 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she
is covered with the
multitude
of the waves thereof.
24:051:043 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.
24:051:044 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.
24:051:045 My people, go ye out of the midst of her,
and deliver ye every
man
his soul from the fierce anger of the lord.
24:051:046 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.


