7
Babylon
has been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand that made all the earth drunken: the Gentiles have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
8
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
9
We applied
the medicine to Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go each one into his own land; for her judgment is come unto heaven and is lifted up
even to the clouds.
10
The LORD has brought our righteousness to light; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
11
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has awakened the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his thought
is against Babylon to destroy her; for it
is vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
12
Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has deliberated and shall put into effect that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13
O thou that dwellest among many waters, rich in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.
14
The LORD of the hosts has sworn by himself,
saying, Surely I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they shall sing the song
of the winepress against thee.
15
He is the one who makes the earth by his power; he upholds the world by his wisdom and extends the heavens by his intelligence;
16
he who gives with
his voice a multitude of waters from heaven, then he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.
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Every man has become carnal and is without knowledge; let every founder be ashamed of the graven image: for his molten image
is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.