Jeremiah 25:12 “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the count...

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New Living Translation - “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
新标点和合本 - 七十年满了以后，我必刑罚巴比伦王和那国民，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 七十年满了以后，我必惩罚巴比伦王和那国，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 七十年满了以后，我必惩罚巴比伦王和那国，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
当代译本 - 七十年后，我要因巴比伦王和他国民迦勒底人的罪而惩罚他们，使他们的土地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
圣经新译本 - “七十年满了以后，我要按着他们的罪孽惩罚巴比伦王和那国，就是迦勒底人之地，使它永远荒凉。”这是耶和华的宣告。
现代标点和合本 - “七十年满了以后，我必刑罚巴比伦王和那国民，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。”这是耶和华说的。
和合本（拼音版） - 七十年满了以后，我必刑罚巴比伦王和那国民，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
New International Version - “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever.
New International Reader's Version - “ ‘But I will punish that king and his nation because they are guilty. I will do this when the 70 years are over,’ announces the Lord. ‘I will make that land a desert forever.
English Standard Version - Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
The Message - “Once the seventy years is up, I’ll punish the king of Babylon and the whole nation of Babylon for their sin. Then they’ll be the wasteland. Everything that I said I’d do to that country, I’ll do—everything that’s written in this book, everything Jeremiah preached against all the godless nations. Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the Babylonians, paying them back for everything they’ve done to others. They won’t get by with anything.” God’s Decree.
Christian Standard Bible - When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever.
New American Standard Bible - ‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
New King James Version - ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
Amplified Bible - ‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia),’ says the Lord, ‘for their wickedness, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste.
American Standard Version - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
King James Version - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
New English Translation - “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the Lord, affirm it!
World English Bible - “It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever.
新標點和合本 - 七十年滿了以後，我必刑罰巴比倫王和那國民，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 七十年滿了以後，我必懲罰巴比倫王和那國，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 七十年滿了以後，我必懲罰巴比倫王和那國，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
當代譯本 - 七十年後，我要因巴比倫王和他國民迦勒底人的罪而懲罰他們，使他們的土地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
聖經新譯本 - “七十年滿了以後，我要按著他們的罪孽懲罰巴比倫王和那國，就是迦勒底人之地，使它永遠荒涼。”這是耶和華的宣告。
呂振中譯本 - 『七十年滿了以後，永恆主發神諭說，我必察罰巴比倫王以及那國，我必鑒察他們的罪孽，察罰迦勒底人之地，使它永遠荒涼。
現代標點和合本 - 「七十年滿了以後，我必刑罰巴比倫王和那國民，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。」這是耶和華說的。
文理和合譯本 - 七十年既竟、我必罰巴比倫王與其國、及迦勒底人之地、使之永久荒蕪、以治其罪、耶和華言之矣、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華又曰、七十年之期既屆、我降罰於巴比倫之君民、治其罪戾、使迦勒底土地荒蕪、歷久若此。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 七十年之期既畢、我降罰於巴比倫王與迦勒底民、治其罪戾、使迦勒底土地永為荒蕪、此乃主所言、
Nueva Versión Internacional - »Pero, cuando se hayan cumplido los setenta años, yo castigaré por su iniquidad al rey de Babilonia y a aquella nación, país de los caldeos, y los convertiré en desolación perpetua —afirma el Señor—.
현대인의 성경 - 70년이 지난 후에 내가 바빌로니아 왕과 그 백성을 그들의 죄에 대하여 벌하고 그 땅을 영원히 황폐하게 하며
Новый Русский Перевод - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну халдеев, за их вину, – возвещает Господь, – и приведу ее в вечное запустение.
Восточный перевод - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну вавилонян, за их вину, – возвещает Вечный, – и приведу её в вечное запустение.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну вавилонян, за их вину, – возвещает Вечный, – и приведу её в вечное запустение.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну вавилонян, за их вину, – возвещает Вечный, – и приведу её в вечное запустение.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et au bout de ces soixante-dix ans, je demanderai compte de leur crime au roi de Babylone et à son peuple – l’Eternel le déclare – je sévirai contre le pays des Chaldéens et je le réduirai en désert pour toujours.
リビングバイブル - この奴隷の期間が終わったら、わたしはバビロン王とその国の民を、彼らの罪のために罰する。カルデヤの地を永久に荒れ果てた所とする。
Nova Versão Internacional - “ ‘Quando se completarem os setenta anos, castigarei o rei da Babilônia e a sua nação, a terra dos babilônios, por causa de suas iniquidades’, declara o Senhor, ‘e a deixarei arrasada para sempre.
Hoffnung für alle - Aber nach den siebzig Jahren ziehe ich den König von Babylonien und sein Volk zur Rechenschaft für ihre Schuld. Dann werde ich ihr Land für immer zerstören. Darauf gebe ich, der Herr, mein Wort!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa Hằng Hữu phán: “Sau bảy mươi năm ấy, Ta sẽ hình phạt vua và người Ba-by-lôn về tội ác chúng. Ta sẽ khiến đất nước Ba-by-lôn đổ nát và điêu tàn vĩnh viễn.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศว่า “แต่เมื่อครบเจ็ดสิบปีแล้ว เราจะลงโทษกษัตริย์บาบิโลนและชนชาติของเขา ซึ่งก็คือแผ่นดินของชาวบาบิโลน เพราะความผิดของพวกเขา เราจะทำให้ดินแดนของเขาถูกทิ้งร้างตลอดไป
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - หลังจากครบ 70 ปีแล้ว เราจะลงโทษกษัตริย์แห่งบาบิโลนและประชาชาตินั้น เพราะความชั่วของพวกเขา” พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศดังนี้ว่า “และเราจะทำให้แผ่นดินของชาวเคลเดียเป็นที่รกร้างไปตลอดกาล

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Isaiah 46:1 - Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, bow as they are lowered to the ground. They are being hauled away on ox carts. The poor beasts stagger under the weight.
Jeremiah 25:14 - Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
Isaiah 15:6 - Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains.
Daniel 5:1 - Many years later King Belshazzar gave a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
Daniel 5:2 - While Belshazzar was drinking the wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem. He wanted to drink from them with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
Daniel 5:3 - So they brought these gold cups taken from the Temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
Daniel 5:4 - While they drank from them they praised their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
Daniel 5:5 - Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,
Daniel 5:6 - and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear and his legs gave way beneath him.
Daniel 5:7 - The king shouted for the enchanters, astrologers, and fortune-tellers to be brought before him. He said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever can read this writing and tell me what it means will be dressed in purple robes of royal honor and will have a gold chain placed around his neck. He will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom!”
Daniel 5:8 - But when all the king’s wise men had come in, none of them could read the writing or tell him what it meant.
Daniel 5:9 - So the king grew even more alarmed, and his face turned pale. His nobles, too, were shaken.
Daniel 5:10 - But when the queen mother heard what was happening, she hurried to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, “Long live the king! Don’t be so pale and frightened.
Daniel 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has within him the spirit of the holy gods. During Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, this man was found to have insight, understanding, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your predecessor, the king—your predecessor King Nebuchadnezzar—made him chief over all the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and fortune-tellers of Babylon.
Daniel 5:12 - This man Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, has exceptional ability and is filled with divine knowledge and understanding. He can interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means.”
Daniel 5:13 - So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles brought from Judah by my predecessor, King Nebuchadnezzar?
Daniel 5:14 - I have heard that you have the spirit of the gods within you and that you are filled with insight, understanding, and wisdom.
Daniel 5:15 - My wise men and enchanters have tried to read the words on the wall and tell me their meaning, but they cannot do it.
Daniel 5:16 - I am told that you can give interpretations and solve difficult problems. If you can read these words and tell me their meaning, you will be clothed in purple robes of royal honor, and you will have a gold chain placed around your neck. You will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
Daniel 5:17 - Daniel answered the king, “Keep your gifts or give them to someone else, but I will tell you what the writing means.
Daniel 5:18 - Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, majesty, glory, and honor to your predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 5:19 - He made him so great that people of all races and nations and languages trembled before him in fear. He killed those he wanted to kill and spared those he wanted to spare. He honored those he wanted to honor and disgraced those he wanted to disgrace.
Daniel 5:20 - But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Daniel 5:21 - He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.
Daniel 5:22 - “You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.
Daniel 5:23 - For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
Daniel 5:24 - So God has sent this hand to write this message.
Daniel 5:25 - “This is the message that was written: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.
Daniel 5:26 - This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
Daniel 5:27 - Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.
Daniel 5:28 - Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Daniel 5:29 - Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:30 - That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
Daniel 5:31 - And Darius the Mede took over the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
Deuteronomy 32:35 - I will take revenge; I will pay them back. In due time their feet will slip. Their day of disaster will arrive, and their destiny will overtake them.’
Deuteronomy 32:36 - “Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people, and he will change his mind about his servants, when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
Deuteronomy 32:37 - Then he will ask, ‘Where are their gods, the rocks they fled to for refuge?
Deuteronomy 32:38 - Where now are those gods, who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their offerings? Let those gods arise and help you! Let them provide you with shelter!
Deuteronomy 32:39 - Look now; I myself am he! There is no other god but me! I am the one who kills and gives life; I am the one who wounds and heals; no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!
Deuteronomy 32:40 - Now I raise my hand to heaven and declare, “As surely as I live,
Deuteronomy 32:41 - when I sharpen my flashing sword and begin to carry out justice, I will take revenge on my enemies and repay those who reject me.
Deuteronomy 32:42 - I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slaughtered and the captives, and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’
Habakkuk 2:1 - I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the Lord says and how he will answer my complaint.
Habakkuk 2:2 - Then the Lord said to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others.
Habakkuk 2:3 - This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.
Habakkuk 2:4 - “Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.
Habakkuk 2:5 - Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They open their mouths as wide as the grave, and like death, they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and swallowed many peoples.
Habakkuk 2:6 - “But soon their captives will taunt them. They will mock them, saying, ‘What sorrow awaits you thieves! Now you will get what you deserve! You’ve become rich by extortion, but how much longer can this go on?’
Habakkuk 2:7 - Suddenly, your debtors will take action. They will turn on you and take all you have, while you stand trembling and helpless.
Habakkuk 2:8 - Because you have plundered many nations, now all the survivors will plunder you. You committed murder throughout the countryside and filled the towns with violence.
Habakkuk 2:9 - “What sorrow awaits you who build big houses with money gained dishonestly! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your family’s nest beyond the reach of danger.
Habakkuk 2:10 - But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.
Habakkuk 2:11 - The very stones in the walls cry out against you, and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.
Habakkuk 2:12 - “What sorrow awaits you who build cities with money gained through murder and corruption!
Habakkuk 2:13 - Has not the Lord of Heaven’s Armies promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!
Habakkuk 2:14 - For as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:15 - “What sorrow awaits you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup on them so you can gloat over their shameful nakedness.
Habakkuk 2:16 - But soon it will be your turn to be disgraced. Come, drink and be exposed! Drink from the cup of the Lord’s judgment, and all your glory will be turned to shame.
Habakkuk 2:17 - You cut down the forests of Lebanon. Now you will be cut down. You destroyed the wild animals, so now their terror will be yours. You committed murder throughout the countryside and filled the towns with violence.
Habakkuk 2:18 - “What good is an idol carved by man, or a cast image that deceives you? How foolish to trust in your own creation— a god that can’t even talk!
Habakkuk 2:19 - What sorrow awaits you who say to wooden idols, ‘Wake up and save us!’ To speechless stone images you say, ‘Rise up and teach us!’ Can an idol tell you what to do? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.
Habakkuk 2:20 - But the Lord is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”
Jeremiah 51:24 - “I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:25 - “Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy,” says the Lord. “I will raise my fist against you, to knock you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble.
Jeremiah 51:26 - You will be desolate forever. Even your stones will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:2 - Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to these shepherds: “Instead of caring for my flock and leading them to safety, you have deserted them and driven them to destruction. Now I will pour out judgment on you for the evil you have done to them.
Revelation 18:1 - After all this I saw another angel come down from heaven with great authority, and the earth grew bright with his splendor.
Revelation 18:2 - He gave a mighty shout: “Babylon is fallen—that great city is fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a hideout for every foul spirit, a hideout for every foul vulture and every foul and dreadful animal.
Revelation 18:3 - For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of her passionate immorality. The kings of the world have committed adultery with her. Because of her desires for extravagant luxury, the merchants of the world have grown rich.”
Revelation 18:4 - Then I heard another voice calling from heaven, “Come away from her, my people. Do not take part in her sins, or you will be punished with her.
Revelation 18:5 - For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God remembers her evil deeds.
Revelation 18:6 - Do to her as she has done to others. Double her penalty for all her evil deeds. She brewed a cup of terror for others, so brew twice as much for her.
Revelation 18:7 - She glorified herself and lived in luxury, so match it now with torment and sorrow. She boasted in her heart, ‘I am queen on my throne. I am no helpless widow, and I have no reason to mourn.’
Revelation 18:8 - Therefore, these plagues will overtake her in a single day— death and mourning and famine. She will be completely consumed by fire, for the Lord God who judges her is mighty.”
Revelation 18:9 - And the kings of the world who committed adultery with her and enjoyed her great luxury will mourn for her as they see the smoke rising from her charred remains.
Revelation 18:10 - They will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will cry out, “How terrible, how terrible for you, O Babylon, you great city! In a single moment God’s judgment came on you.”
Revelation 18:11 - The merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there is no one left to buy their goods.
Revelation 18:12 - She bought great quantities of gold, silver, jewels, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet cloth; things made of fragrant thyine wood, ivory goods, and objects made of expensive wood; and bronze, iron, and marble.
Revelation 18:13 - She also bought cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, wagons, and bodies—that is, human slaves.
Revelation 18:14 - “The fancy things you loved so much are gone,” they cry. “All your luxuries and splendor are gone forever, never to be yours again.”
Revelation 18:15 - The merchants who became wealthy by selling her these things will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will weep and cry out,
Revelation 18:16 - “How terrible, how terrible for that great city! She was clothed in finest purple and scarlet linens, decked out with gold and precious stones and pearls!
Revelation 18:17 - In a single moment all the wealth of the city is gone!” And all the captains of the merchant ships and their passengers and sailors and crews will stand at a distance.
Revelation 18:18 - They will cry out as they watch the smoke ascend, and they will say, “Where is there another city as great as this?”
Revelation 18:19 - And they will weep and throw dust on their heads to show their grief. And they will cry out, “How terrible, how terrible for that great city! The shipowners became wealthy by transporting her great wealth on the seas. In a single moment it is all gone.”
Revelation 18:20 - Rejoice over her fate, O heaven and people of God and apostles and prophets! For at last God has judged her for your sakes.
Revelation 18:21 - Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a huge millstone. He threw it into the ocean and shouted, “Just like this, the great city Babylon will be thrown down with violence and will never be found again.
Revelation 18:22 - The sound of harps, singers, flutes, and trumpets will never be heard in you again. No craftsmen and no trades will ever be found in you again. The sound of the mill will never be heard in you again.
Revelation 18:23 - The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The happy voices of brides and grooms will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the greatest in the world, and you deceived the nations with your sorceries.
Revelation 18:24 - In your streets flowed the blood of the prophets and of God’s holy people and the blood of people slaughtered all over the world.”
2 Kings 24:1 - During Jehoiakim’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded the land of Judah. Jehoiakim surrendered and paid him tribute for three years but then rebelled.
Ezekiel 35:9 - I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Isaiah 13:1 - Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:
Isaiah 13:2 - “Raise a signal flag on a bare hilltop. Call up an army against Babylon. Wave your hand to encourage them as they march into the palaces of the high and mighty.
Isaiah 13:3 - I, the Lord, have dedicated these soldiers for this task. Yes, I have called mighty warriors to express my anger, and they will rejoice when I am exalted.”
Isaiah 13:4 - Hear the noise on the mountains! Listen, as the vast armies march! It is the noise and shouting of many nations. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has called this army together.
Isaiah 13:5 - They come from distant countries, from beyond the farthest horizons. They are the Lord’s weapons to carry out his anger. With them he will destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 13:6 - Scream in terror, for the day of the Lord has arrived— the time for the Almighty to destroy.
Isaiah 13:7 - Every arm is paralyzed with fear. Every heart melts,
Isaiah 13:8 - and people are terrified. Pangs of anguish grip them, like those of a woman in labor. They look helplessly at one another, their faces aflame with fear.
Isaiah 13:9 - For see, the day of the Lord is coming— the terrible day of his fury and fierce anger. The land will be made desolate, and all the sinners destroyed with it.
Isaiah 13:10 - The heavens will be black above them; the stars will give no light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light.
Isaiah 13:11 - “I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their sin. I will crush the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the mighty.
Isaiah 13:12 - I will make people scarcer than gold— more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:13 - For I will shake the heavens. The earth will move from its place when the Lord of Heaven’s Armies displays his wrath in the day of his fierce anger.”
Isaiah 13:14 - Everyone in Babylon will run about like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd. They will try to find their own people and flee to their own land.
Isaiah 20:1 - In the year when King Sargon of Assyria sent his commander in chief to capture the Philistine city of Ashdod,
Isaiah 20:2 - the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz, “Take off the burlap you have been wearing, and remove your sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - Then the Lord said, “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign—a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
Isaiah 20:4 - For the king of Assyria will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks bared, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 20:5 - Then the Philistines will be thrown into panic, for they counted on the power of Ethiopia and boasted of their allies in Egypt!
Isaiah 20:6 - They will say, ‘If this can happen to Egypt, what chance do we have? We were counting on Egypt to protect us from the king of Assyria.’”
Jeremiah 51:62 - Then say, ‘Lord, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. She will lie empty and abandoned forever.’
Jeremiah 51:63 - When you have finished reading the scroll, tie it to a stone and throw it into the Euphrates River.
Jeremiah 51:64 - Then say, ‘In this same way Babylon and her people will sink, never again to rise, because of the disasters I will bring upon her.’” This is the end of Jeremiah’s messages.
Isaiah 14:23 - “I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls, filled with swamps and marshes. I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
Jeremiah 50:1 - The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
Jeremiah 50:2 - This is what the Lord says: “Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
Jeremiah 50:3 - For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live there again. Everything will be gone; both people and animals will flee.
Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold.
Jeremiah 50:7 - All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’
Jeremiah 50:8 - “But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Like male goats at the head of the flock, lead my people home again.
Jeremiah 50:9 - For I am raising up an army of great nations from the north. They will join forces to attack Babylon, and she will be captured. The enemies’ arrows will go straight to the mark; they will not miss!
Jeremiah 50:10 - Babylonia will be looted until the attackers are glutted with loot. I, the Lord, have spoken!
Jeremiah 50:11 - “You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
Jeremiah 50:12 - But your homeland will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace. You will become the least of nations— a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.
Jeremiah 50:13 - Because of the Lord’s anger, Babylon will become a deserted wasteland. All who pass by will be horrified and will gasp at the destruction they see there.
Jeremiah 50:14 - “Yes, prepare to attack Babylon, all you surrounding nations. Let your archers shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:15 - Shout war cries against her from every side. Look! She surrenders! Her walls have fallen. It is the Lord’s vengeance, so take vengeance on her. Do to her as she has done to others!
Jeremiah 50:16 - Take from Babylon all those who plant crops; send all the harvesters away. Because of the sword of the enemy, everyone will run away and rush back to their own lands.
Jeremiah 50:17 - “The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones.”
Jeremiah 50:18 - Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel home again to its own land, to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan, and to be satisfied once more in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
Jeremiah 50:20 - In those days,” says the Lord, “no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah, for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
Jeremiah 50:21 - “Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:22 - “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.
Jeremiah 50:23 - Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:24 - Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:25 - The Lord has opened his armory and brought out weapons to vent his fury. The terror that falls upon the Babylonians will be the work of the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
Jeremiah 50:26 - Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!
Jeremiah 50:27 - Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
Jeremiah 50:28 - Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they tell in Jerusalem how the Lord our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.
Jeremiah 50:29 - “Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 50:30 - Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:31 - “See, I am your enemy, you arrogant people,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Your day of reckoning has arrived— the day when I will punish you.
Jeremiah 50:32 - O land of arrogance, you will stumble and fall, and no one will raise you up. For I will light a fire in the cities of Babylon that will burn up everything around them.”
Jeremiah 50:33 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “The people of Israel and Judah have been wronged. Their captors hold them and refuse to let them go.
Jeremiah 50:34 - But the one who redeems them is strong. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He will defend them and give them rest again in Israel. But for the people of Babylon there will be no rest!
Jeremiah 50:35 - “The sword of destruction will strike the Babylonians,” says the Lord. “It will strike the people of Babylon— her officials and wise men, too.
Jeremiah 50:36 - The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.
Jeremiah 50:37 - The sword will strike her horses and chariots and her allies from other lands, and they will all become like women. The sword will strike her treasures, and they all will be plundered.
Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought will strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them.
Jeremiah 50:39 - “Soon Babylon will be inhabited by desert animals and hyenas. It will be a home for owls. Never again will people live there; it will lie desolate forever.
Jeremiah 50:40 - I will destroy it as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
Jeremiah 50:41 - “Look! A great army is coming from the north. A great nation and many kings are rising against you from far-off lands.
Jeremiah 50:42 - They are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. As they ride forward on horses, they sound like a roaring sea. They are coming in battle formation, planning to destroy you, Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Pangs of anguish have gripped him, like those of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 50:44 - “I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Babylon from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”
Jeremiah 50:45 - Listen to the Lord’s plans against Babylon and the land of the Babylonians. Even the little children will be dragged off like sheep, and their homes will be destroyed.
Jeremiah 50:46 - The earth will shake with the shout, “Babylon has been taken!” and its cry of despair will be heard around the world.
Ezra 1:1 - In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, the Lord fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah. He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this proclamation in writing and to send it throughout his kingdom:
Ezra 1:2 - “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build him a Temple at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Jeremiah 29:10 - This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again.
Isaiah 13:19 - Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
Daniel 9:2 - During the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, learned from reading the word of the Lord, as revealed to Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years.

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New Living Translation - “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
新标点和合本 - 七十年满了以后，我必刑罚巴比伦王和那国民，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 七十年满了以后，我必惩罚巴比伦王和那国，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 七十年满了以后，我必惩罚巴比伦王和那国，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
当代译本 - 七十年后，我要因巴比伦王和他国民迦勒底人的罪而惩罚他们，使他们的土地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
圣经新译本 - “七十年满了以后，我要按着他们的罪孽惩罚巴比伦王和那国，就是迦勒底人之地，使它永远荒凉。”这是耶和华的宣告。
现代标点和合本 - “七十年满了以后，我必刑罚巴比伦王和那国民，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。”这是耶和华说的。
和合本（拼音版） - 七十年满了以后，我必刑罚巴比伦王和那国民，并迦勒底人之地，因他们的罪孽使那地永远荒凉。这是耶和华说的。
New International Version - “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate forever.
New International Reader's Version - “ ‘But I will punish that king and his nation because they are guilty. I will do this when the 70 years are over,’ announces the Lord. ‘I will make that land a desert forever.
English Standard Version - Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
The Message - “Once the seventy years is up, I’ll punish the king of Babylon and the whole nation of Babylon for their sin. Then they’ll be the wasteland. Everything that I said I’d do to that country, I’ll do—everything that’s written in this book, everything Jeremiah preached against all the godless nations. Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the Babylonians, paying them back for everything they’ve done to others. They won’t get by with anything.” God’s Decree.
Christian Standard Bible - When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever.
New American Standard Bible - ‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
New King James Version - ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the Lord; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
Amplified Bible - ‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia),’ says the Lord, ‘for their wickedness, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste.
American Standard Version - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
King James Version - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
New English Translation - “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the Lord, affirm it!
World English Bible - “It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever.
新標點和合本 - 七十年滿了以後，我必刑罰巴比倫王和那國民，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 七十年滿了以後，我必懲罰巴比倫王和那國，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 七十年滿了以後，我必懲罰巴比倫王和那國，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
當代譯本 - 七十年後，我要因巴比倫王和他國民迦勒底人的罪而懲罰他們，使他們的土地永遠荒涼。這是耶和華說的。
聖經新譯本 - “七十年滿了以後，我要按著他們的罪孽懲罰巴比倫王和那國，就是迦勒底人之地，使它永遠荒涼。”這是耶和華的宣告。
呂振中譯本 - 『七十年滿了以後，永恆主發神諭說，我必察罰巴比倫王以及那國，我必鑒察他們的罪孽，察罰迦勒底人之地，使它永遠荒涼。
現代標點和合本 - 「七十年滿了以後，我必刑罰巴比倫王和那國民，並迦勒底人之地，因他們的罪孽使那地永遠荒涼。」這是耶和華說的。
文理和合譯本 - 七十年既竟、我必罰巴比倫王與其國、及迦勒底人之地、使之永久荒蕪、以治其罪、耶和華言之矣、
文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華又曰、七十年之期既屆、我降罰於巴比倫之君民、治其罪戾、使迦勒底土地荒蕪、歷久若此。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 七十年之期既畢、我降罰於巴比倫王與迦勒底民、治其罪戾、使迦勒底土地永為荒蕪、此乃主所言、
Nueva Versión Internacional - »Pero, cuando se hayan cumplido los setenta años, yo castigaré por su iniquidad al rey de Babilonia y a aquella nación, país de los caldeos, y los convertiré en desolación perpetua —afirma el Señor—.
현대인의 성경 - 70년이 지난 후에 내가 바빌로니아 왕과 그 백성을 그들의 죄에 대하여 벌하고 그 땅을 영원히 황폐하게 하며
Новый Русский Перевод - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну халдеев, за их вину, – возвещает Господь, – и приведу ее в вечное запустение.
Восточный перевод - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну вавилонян, за их вину, – возвещает Вечный, – и приведу её в вечное запустение.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну вавилонян, за их вину, – возвещает Вечный, – и приведу её в вечное запустение.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но по прошествии семидесяти лет Я накажу царя Вавилона и его народ, страну вавилонян, за их вину, – возвещает Вечный, – и приведу её в вечное запустение.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et au bout de ces soixante-dix ans, je demanderai compte de leur crime au roi de Babylone et à son peuple – l’Eternel le déclare – je sévirai contre le pays des Chaldéens et je le réduirai en désert pour toujours.
リビングバイブル - この奴隷の期間が終わったら、わたしはバビロン王とその国の民を、彼らの罪のために罰する。カルデヤの地を永久に荒れ果てた所とする。
Nova Versão Internacional - “ ‘Quando se completarem os setenta anos, castigarei o rei da Babilônia e a sua nação, a terra dos babilônios, por causa de suas iniquidades’, declara o Senhor, ‘e a deixarei arrasada para sempre.
Hoffnung für alle - Aber nach den siebzig Jahren ziehe ich den König von Babylonien und sein Volk zur Rechenschaft für ihre Schuld. Dann werde ich ihr Land für immer zerstören. Darauf gebe ich, der Herr, mein Wort!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa Hằng Hữu phán: “Sau bảy mươi năm ấy, Ta sẽ hình phạt vua và người Ba-by-lôn về tội ác chúng. Ta sẽ khiến đất nước Ba-by-lôn đổ nát và điêu tàn vĩnh viễn.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศว่า “แต่เมื่อครบเจ็ดสิบปีแล้ว เราจะลงโทษกษัตริย์บาบิโลนและชนชาติของเขา ซึ่งก็คือแผ่นดินของชาวบาบิโลน เพราะความผิดของพวกเขา เราจะทำให้ดินแดนของเขาถูกทิ้งร้างตลอดไป
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - หลังจากครบ 70 ปีแล้ว เราจะลงโทษกษัตริย์แห่งบาบิโลนและประชาชาตินั้น เพราะความชั่วของพวกเขา” พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศดังนี้ว่า “และเราจะทำให้แผ่นดินของชาวเคลเดียเป็นที่รกร้างไปตลอดกาล

Isaiah 46:1 - Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, bow as they are lowered to the ground. They are being hauled away on ox carts. The poor beasts stagger under the weight.
Jeremiah 25:14 - Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
Isaiah 15:6 - Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains.
Daniel 5:1 - Many years later King Belshazzar gave a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
Daniel 5:2 - While Belshazzar was drinking the wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem. He wanted to drink from them with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
Daniel 5:3 - So they brought these gold cups taken from the Temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
Daniel 5:4 - While they drank from them they praised their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
Daniel 5:5 - Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,
Daniel 5:6 - and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear and his legs gave way beneath him.
Daniel 5:7 - The king shouted for the enchanters, astrologers, and fortune-tellers to be brought before him. He said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever can read this writing and tell me what it means will be dressed in purple robes of royal honor and will have a gold chain placed around his neck. He will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom!”
Daniel 5:8 - But when all the king’s wise men had come in, none of them could read the writing or tell him what it meant.
Daniel 5:9 - So the king grew even more alarmed, and his face turned pale. His nobles, too, were shaken.
Daniel 5:10 - But when the queen mother heard what was happening, she hurried to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, “Long live the king! Don’t be so pale and frightened.
Daniel 5:11 - There is a man in your kingdom who has within him the spirit of the holy gods. During Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, this man was found to have insight, understanding, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your predecessor, the king—your predecessor King Nebuchadnezzar—made him chief over all the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and fortune-tellers of Babylon.
Daniel 5:12 - This man Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, has exceptional ability and is filled with divine knowledge and understanding. He can interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means.”
Daniel 5:13 - So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles brought from Judah by my predecessor, King Nebuchadnezzar?
Daniel 5:14 - I have heard that you have the spirit of the gods within you and that you are filled with insight, understanding, and wisdom.
Daniel 5:15 - My wise men and enchanters have tried to read the words on the wall and tell me their meaning, but they cannot do it.
Daniel 5:16 - I am told that you can give interpretations and solve difficult problems. If you can read these words and tell me their meaning, you will be clothed in purple robes of royal honor, and you will have a gold chain placed around your neck. You will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
Daniel 5:17 - Daniel answered the king, “Keep your gifts or give them to someone else, but I will tell you what the writing means.
Daniel 5:18 - Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, majesty, glory, and honor to your predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 5:19 - He made him so great that people of all races and nations and languages trembled before him in fear. He killed those he wanted to kill and spared those he wanted to spare. He honored those he wanted to honor and disgraced those he wanted to disgrace.
Daniel 5:20 - But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Daniel 5:21 - He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.
Daniel 5:22 - “You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.
Daniel 5:23 - For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
Daniel 5:24 - So God has sent this hand to write this message.
Daniel 5:25 - “This is the message that was written: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.
Daniel 5:26 - This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
Daniel 5:27 - Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.
Daniel 5:28 - Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Daniel 5:29 - Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 5:30 - That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
Daniel 5:31 - And Darius the Mede took over the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.
Deuteronomy 32:35 - I will take revenge; I will pay them back. In due time their feet will slip. Their day of disaster will arrive, and their destiny will overtake them.’
Deuteronomy 32:36 - “Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people, and he will change his mind about his servants, when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
Deuteronomy 32:37 - Then he will ask, ‘Where are their gods, the rocks they fled to for refuge?
Deuteronomy 32:38 - Where now are those gods, who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their offerings? Let those gods arise and help you! Let them provide you with shelter!
Deuteronomy 32:39 - Look now; I myself am he! There is no other god but me! I am the one who kills and gives life; I am the one who wounds and heals; no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!
Deuteronomy 32:40 - Now I raise my hand to heaven and declare, “As surely as I live,
Deuteronomy 32:41 - when I sharpen my flashing sword and begin to carry out justice, I will take revenge on my enemies and repay those who reject me.
Deuteronomy 32:42 - I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slaughtered and the captives, and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’
Habakkuk 2:1 - I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the Lord says and how he will answer my complaint.
Habakkuk 2:2 - Then the Lord said to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others.
Habakkuk 2:3 - This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.
Habakkuk 2:4 - “Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.
Habakkuk 2:5 - Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They open their mouths as wide as the grave, and like death, they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and swallowed many peoples.
Habakkuk 2:6 - “But soon their captives will taunt them. They will mock them, saying, ‘What sorrow awaits you thieves! Now you will get what you deserve! You’ve become rich by extortion, but how much longer can this go on?’
Habakkuk 2:7 - Suddenly, your debtors will take action. They will turn on you and take all you have, while you stand trembling and helpless.
Habakkuk 2:8 - Because you have plundered many nations, now all the survivors will plunder you. You committed murder throughout the countryside and filled the towns with violence.
Habakkuk 2:9 - “What sorrow awaits you who build big houses with money gained dishonestly! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your family’s nest beyond the reach of danger.
Habakkuk 2:10 - But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.
Habakkuk 2:11 - The very stones in the walls cry out against you, and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.
Habakkuk 2:12 - “What sorrow awaits you who build cities with money gained through murder and corruption!
Habakkuk 2:13 - Has not the Lord of Heaven’s Armies promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!
Habakkuk 2:14 - For as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:15 - “What sorrow awaits you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup on them so you can gloat over their shameful nakedness.
Habakkuk 2:16 - But soon it will be your turn to be disgraced. Come, drink and be exposed! Drink from the cup of the Lord’s judgment, and all your glory will be turned to shame.
Habakkuk 2:17 - You cut down the forests of Lebanon. Now you will be cut down. You destroyed the wild animals, so now their terror will be yours. You committed murder throughout the countryside and filled the towns with violence.
Habakkuk 2:18 - “What good is an idol carved by man, or a cast image that deceives you? How foolish to trust in your own creation— a god that can’t even talk!
Habakkuk 2:19 - What sorrow awaits you who say to wooden idols, ‘Wake up and save us!’ To speechless stone images you say, ‘Rise up and teach us!’ Can an idol tell you what to do? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside.
Habakkuk 2:20 - But the Lord is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”
Jeremiah 51:24 - “I will repay Babylon and the people of Babylonia for all the wrong they have done to my people in Jerusalem,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 51:25 - “Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth! I am your enemy,” says the Lord. “I will raise my fist against you, to knock you down from the heights. When I am finished, you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble.
Jeremiah 51:26 - You will be desolate forever. Even your stones will never again be used for building. You will be completely wiped out,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:2 - Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to these shepherds: “Instead of caring for my flock and leading them to safety, you have deserted them and driven them to destruction. Now I will pour out judgment on you for the evil you have done to them.
Revelation 18:1 - After all this I saw another angel come down from heaven with great authority, and the earth grew bright with his splendor.
Revelation 18:2 - He gave a mighty shout: “Babylon is fallen—that great city is fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a hideout for every foul spirit, a hideout for every foul vulture and every foul and dreadful animal.
Revelation 18:3 - For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of her passionate immorality. The kings of the world have committed adultery with her. Because of her desires for extravagant luxury, the merchants of the world have grown rich.”
Revelation 18:4 - Then I heard another voice calling from heaven, “Come away from her, my people. Do not take part in her sins, or you will be punished with her.
Revelation 18:5 - For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God remembers her evil deeds.
Revelation 18:6 - Do to her as she has done to others. Double her penalty for all her evil deeds. She brewed a cup of terror for others, so brew twice as much for her.
Revelation 18:7 - She glorified herself and lived in luxury, so match it now with torment and sorrow. She boasted in her heart, ‘I am queen on my throne. I am no helpless widow, and I have no reason to mourn.’
Revelation 18:8 - Therefore, these plagues will overtake her in a single day— death and mourning and famine. She will be completely consumed by fire, for the Lord God who judges her is mighty.”
Revelation 18:9 - And the kings of the world who committed adultery with her and enjoyed her great luxury will mourn for her as they see the smoke rising from her charred remains.
Revelation 18:10 - They will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will cry out, “How terrible, how terrible for you, O Babylon, you great city! In a single moment God’s judgment came on you.”
Revelation 18:11 - The merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there is no one left to buy their goods.
Revelation 18:12 - She bought great quantities of gold, silver, jewels, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet cloth; things made of fragrant thyine wood, ivory goods, and objects made of expensive wood; and bronze, iron, and marble.
Revelation 18:13 - She also bought cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, wagons, and bodies—that is, human slaves.
Revelation 18:14 - “The fancy things you loved so much are gone,” they cry. “All your luxuries and splendor are gone forever, never to be yours again.”
Revelation 18:15 - The merchants who became wealthy by selling her these things will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will weep and cry out,
Revelation 18:16 - “How terrible, how terrible for that great city! She was clothed in finest purple and scarlet linens, decked out with gold and precious stones and pearls!
Revelation 18:17 - In a single moment all the wealth of the city is gone!” And all the captains of the merchant ships and their passengers and sailors and crews will stand at a distance.
Revelation 18:18 - They will cry out as they watch the smoke ascend, and they will say, “Where is there another city as great as this?”
Revelation 18:19 - And they will weep and throw dust on their heads to show their grief. And they will cry out, “How terrible, how terrible for that great city! The shipowners became wealthy by transporting her great wealth on the seas. In a single moment it is all gone.”
Revelation 18:20 - Rejoice over her fate, O heaven and people of God and apostles and prophets! For at last God has judged her for your sakes.
Revelation 18:21 - Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a huge millstone. He threw it into the ocean and shouted, “Just like this, the great city Babylon will be thrown down with violence and will never be found again.
Revelation 18:22 - The sound of harps, singers, flutes, and trumpets will never be heard in you again. No craftsmen and no trades will ever be found in you again. The sound of the mill will never be heard in you again.
Revelation 18:23 - The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The happy voices of brides and grooms will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the greatest in the world, and you deceived the nations with your sorceries.
Revelation 18:24 - In your streets flowed the blood of the prophets and of God’s holy people and the blood of people slaughtered all over the world.”
2 Kings 24:1 - During Jehoiakim’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded the land of Judah. Jehoiakim surrendered and paid him tribute for three years but then rebelled.
Ezekiel 35:9 - I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Isaiah 13:1 - Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:
Isaiah 13:2 - “Raise a signal flag on a bare hilltop. Call up an army against Babylon. Wave your hand to encourage them as they march into the palaces of the high and mighty.
Isaiah 13:3 - I, the Lord, have dedicated these soldiers for this task. Yes, I have called mighty warriors to express my anger, and they will rejoice when I am exalted.”
Isaiah 13:4 - Hear the noise on the mountains! Listen, as the vast armies march! It is the noise and shouting of many nations. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has called this army together.
Isaiah 13:5 - They come from distant countries, from beyond the farthest horizons. They are the Lord’s weapons to carry out his anger. With them he will destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 13:6 - Scream in terror, for the day of the Lord has arrived— the time for the Almighty to destroy.
Isaiah 13:7 - Every arm is paralyzed with fear. Every heart melts,
Isaiah 13:8 - and people are terrified. Pangs of anguish grip them, like those of a woman in labor. They look helplessly at one another, their faces aflame with fear.
Isaiah 13:9 - For see, the day of the Lord is coming— the terrible day of his fury and fierce anger. The land will be made desolate, and all the sinners destroyed with it.
Isaiah 13:10 - The heavens will be black above them; the stars will give no light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light.
Isaiah 13:11 - “I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their sin. I will crush the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the mighty.
Isaiah 13:12 - I will make people scarcer than gold— more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:13 - For I will shake the heavens. The earth will move from its place when the Lord of Heaven’s Armies displays his wrath in the day of his fierce anger.”
Isaiah 13:14 - Everyone in Babylon will run about like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd. They will try to find their own people and flee to their own land.
Isaiah 20:1 - In the year when King Sargon of Assyria sent his commander in chief to capture the Philistine city of Ashdod,
Isaiah 20:2 - the Lord told Isaiah son of Amoz, “Take off the burlap you have been wearing, and remove your sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked around naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:3 - Then the Lord said, “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign—a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
Isaiah 20:4 - For the king of Assyria will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians as prisoners. He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks bared, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 20:5 - Then the Philistines will be thrown into panic, for they counted on the power of Ethiopia and boasted of their allies in Egypt!
Isaiah 20:6 - They will say, ‘If this can happen to Egypt, what chance do we have? We were counting on Egypt to protect us from the king of Assyria.’”
Jeremiah 51:62 - Then say, ‘Lord, you have said that you will destroy Babylon so that neither people nor animals will remain here. She will lie empty and abandoned forever.’
Jeremiah 51:63 - When you have finished reading the scroll, tie it to a stone and throw it into the Euphrates River.
Jeremiah 51:64 - Then say, ‘In this same way Babylon and her people will sink, never again to rise, because of the disasters I will bring upon her.’” This is the end of Jeremiah’s messages.
Isaiah 14:23 - “I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls, filled with swamps and marshes. I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
Jeremiah 50:1 - The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
Jeremiah 50:2 - This is what the Lord says: “Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
Jeremiah 50:3 - For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live there again. Everything will be gone; both people and animals will flee.
Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.
Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold.
Jeremiah 50:7 - All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’
Jeremiah 50:8 - “But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Like male goats at the head of the flock, lead my people home again.
Jeremiah 50:9 - For I am raising up an army of great nations from the north. They will join forces to attack Babylon, and she will be captured. The enemies’ arrows will go straight to the mark; they will not miss!
Jeremiah 50:10 - Babylonia will be looted until the attackers are glutted with loot. I, the Lord, have spoken!
Jeremiah 50:11 - “You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
Jeremiah 50:12 - But your homeland will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace. You will become the least of nations— a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.
Jeremiah 50:13 - Because of the Lord’s anger, Babylon will become a deserted wasteland. All who pass by will be horrified and will gasp at the destruction they see there.
Jeremiah 50:14 - “Yes, prepare to attack Babylon, all you surrounding nations. Let your archers shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:15 - Shout war cries against her from every side. Look! She surrenders! Her walls have fallen. It is the Lord’s vengeance, so take vengeance on her. Do to her as she has done to others!
Jeremiah 50:16 - Take from Babylon all those who plant crops; send all the harvesters away. Because of the sword of the enemy, everyone will run away and rush back to their own lands.
Jeremiah 50:17 - “The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones.”
Jeremiah 50:18 - Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel home again to its own land, to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan, and to be satisfied once more in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
Jeremiah 50:20 - In those days,” says the Lord, “no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah, for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
Jeremiah 50:21 - “Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:22 - “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.
Jeremiah 50:23 - Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:24 - Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:25 - The Lord has opened his armory and brought out weapons to vent his fury. The terror that falls upon the Babylonians will be the work of the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
Jeremiah 50:26 - Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!
Jeremiah 50:27 - Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
Jeremiah 50:28 - Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they tell in Jerusalem how the Lord our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.
Jeremiah 50:29 - “Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 50:30 - Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:31 - “See, I am your enemy, you arrogant people,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Your day of reckoning has arrived— the day when I will punish you.
Jeremiah 50:32 - O land of arrogance, you will stumble and fall, and no one will raise you up. For I will light a fire in the cities of Babylon that will burn up everything around them.”
Jeremiah 50:33 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “The people of Israel and Judah have been wronged. Their captors hold them and refuse to let them go.
Jeremiah 50:34 - But the one who redeems them is strong. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He will defend them and give them rest again in Israel. But for the people of Babylon there will be no rest!
Jeremiah 50:35 - “The sword of destruction will strike the Babylonians,” says the Lord. “It will strike the people of Babylon— her officials and wise men, too.
Jeremiah 50:36 - The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.
Jeremiah 50:37 - The sword will strike her horses and chariots and her allies from other lands, and they will all become like women. The sword will strike her treasures, and they all will be plundered.
Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought will strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them.
Jeremiah 50:39 - “Soon Babylon will be inhabited by desert animals and hyenas. It will be a home for owls. Never again will people live there; it will lie desolate forever.
Jeremiah 50:40 - I will destroy it as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
Jeremiah 50:41 - “Look! A great army is coming from the north. A great nation and many kings are rising against you from far-off lands.
Jeremiah 50:42 - They are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. As they ride forward on horses, they sound like a roaring sea. They are coming in battle formation, planning to destroy you, Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Pangs of anguish have gripped him, like those of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 50:44 - “I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Babylon from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”
Jeremiah 50:45 - Listen to the Lord’s plans against Babylon and the land of the Babylonians. Even the little children will be dragged off like sheep, and their homes will be destroyed.
Jeremiah 50:46 - The earth will shake with the shout, “Babylon has been taken!” and its cry of despair will be heard around the world.
Ezra 1:1 - In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, the Lord fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah. He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this proclamation in writing and to send it throughout his kingdom:
Ezra 1:2 - “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build him a Temple at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Jeremiah 29:10 - This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again.
Isaiah 13:19 - Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
Daniel 9:2 - During the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, learned from reading the word of the Lord, as revealed to Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years.