For every apurpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon,
bTo make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
aThey became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
bThe bars of her gate are broken.
And one messenger to meet another,
To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;
“The daughter of Babylon is alike a threshing floor
When bit is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
cAnd the time of her harvest will come.”
Has adevoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an bempty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.
“Behold, aI will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
bI will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
A dwelling place for jackals,
bAn astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
aI will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
Oh, how bthe praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
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Jeremiah 51:31
One post shall run to meet another - As the city was taken by surprise, in the manner already related, so now messengers, one after another, were dispatched to give the king information of what was done; viz., that the city was taken at one end. Herodotus tells us that the extreme parts of the city were taken, before those of the center knew any thing of the invasion. Herodot. lib. 1 c. 191.
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