October 16, 2026, Jeremiah 51:24-53
October 16, 2026, Jeremiah 51:24-53
25 “Behold, I am against you,
O destroying mountain,
declares the Lord,
which destroys the whole
earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the
crags,
and make you a burnt
mountain.
26 No stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a
foundation,
but you shall be a perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.
27 “Set up a standard on the
earth;
blow the trumpet among the
nations;
prepare the nations for war against her;
summon against
her the kingdoms,
Ararat, Minni,
and Ashkenaz;
appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like
bristling locusts.
28 Prepare the nations for war against her,
the kings of the
Medes, with their governors and deputies,
and every land under
their dominion.
29 The land trembles and writhes in pain,
for the Lord's purposes against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
30 The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting;
they remain in their
strongholds;
their strength has failed;
they have become women;
her dwellings are on fire;
her bars are broken.
31 One runner runs to meet another,
and one messenger to meet
another,
to tell the king of Babylon
that his city is taken on
every side;
32 the fords have been seized,
the marshes are burned
with fire,
and the soldiers are in
panic.
33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
at the time when it is
trodden;
yet a little while
and the time of her
harvest will come.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king
of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
he has swallowed me
like a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[d]
35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon
Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion
say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will plead your cause
and take vengeance for
you.
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain
dry,
37 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,
the haunt of jackals,
a horror and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
38 “They shall roar
together like lions;
they shall growl like
lions' cubs.
39 While they are inflamed I will prepare them a
feast
and make them drunk,
that they may become merry,
then sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares
the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and male goats.
41 “How Babylon[e] is taken,
the praise of the whole
earth seized!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the
nations!
42 The sea has come up on Babylon;
she is covered with its
tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become a horror,
a land of drought and a
desert,
a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son
of man passes.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
and take out of his
mouth what he has swallowed.
The nations shall no longer flow to him;
the wall of Babylon has
fallen.
45 “Go out of the midst of
her, my people!
Let every one save his
life
from the fierce anger
of the Lord!
46 Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful
at the report heard in the
land,
when a report comes in one year
and afterward a report in
another year,
and violence is in the land,
and ruler is against
ruler.
47 “Therefore, behold, the
days are coming
when I will punish
the images of Babylon;
her whole land shall be put to shame,
and all her slain shall
fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heavens and the earth,
and all that is in them,
shall sing for joy over Babylon,
for the destroyers shall
come against them out of the north,
declares the Lord.
49 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,
just as for Babylon have
fallen the slain of all the earth.
50 “You who have escaped from
the sword,
go, do not stand still!
Remember the Lord from
far away,
and let Jerusalem come
into your mind:
51 ‘We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach;
dishonor has covered our
face,
for foreigners have come
into the holy places of
the Lord's house.’
52 “Therefore, behold, the
days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will execute
judgment upon her images,
and through all her land
the wounded shall groan.
53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,
and though she
should fortify her strong height,
yet destroyers would come from me against her,
declares the Lord.
How does God respond to
substitutes people use for Him? How does this question fit into your life? I
know this is an area that I struggle with. Ask God today to cleanse your heart
and place Him on the throne.
Debbie Walker
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