I will send strangersbstrangers Change of vocalization yields “winnowers.” against Babylon, and they shall winnow her.And they shall strip her land bare;They shall beset her on all sidesOn the day of disaster.
LetcLet Some Heb. mss. and ancient versions read “Let not” here and in next line. the archer draw his bow,And let him stand ready in his coat of mail!Show no pity to her young men,Wipe out all her host!
Word-by-Word Analysis
אלידרך
265
ידרך
234
הדרך
229
קשתו
806
ואליתעל
547
בסרינו
328
ואלתחמלו
521
אלבחריה
256
החרימו
269
כלצבאה
148
Jeremiah 51:4
Gematria: 1884
ונפלוחלליםבארץכשדיםומדקריםבחוצותיה
Let them fall slain in the land of Chaldea,Pierced through in her streets.
For Israel and Judah were not bereftdbereft Lit. “widowed.” Of their God— GOD of Hosts,But their land was filled with guiltBefore the Holy One of Israel.
Flee from the midst of BabylonAnd save your lives, each of you!Do not perish for her iniquity;For this is a time of vengeance for GOD,Who will deal retribution to her.
We tried to cure BabylonBut she was incurable.Let us leave her and go,Each to our own land;For her punishment reaches to heaven,It is as high as the sky.
Word-by-Word Analysis
רפאנו
337
אתבבל
435
ולא
37
נרפתה
735
עזבוה
90
ונלך
106
איש
311
לארצו
327
כינגע
153
אלהשמים
426
משפטה
434
ונשא
357
עדשחקים
532
Jeremiah 51:10
Gematria: 2771
הוציאיהוהאתצדקתינובאוונספרהבציוןאתמעשהיהוהאלהינוס
GOD
has proclaimed our vindication;Come, let us recount in ZionThe deeds of the ETERNAL our God.
Polish the arrows,Fill the quivers!
GOD
has roused the spirit of the kings of Media,For the divine plan against Babylon is to destroy her.This is GOD’s vengeance,Vengeance for the holyethe holy Lit. “His.” temple.
Raise a standard against the walls of Babylon!Set up a blockade; station watchmen;Prepare those in ambush.For GOD has both planned and performedWhat was decreed against the inhabitants of Babylon.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אלחומת
485
בבל
34
שאונס
417
החזיקו
136
המשמר
585
הקימו
161
שמרים
590
הכינו
91
הארבים
258
כי
30
גםזמם
130
יהוה
26
גםעשה
418
את
401
אשרדבר
707
אלישבי
353
בבל
34
Jeremiah 51:13
Gematria: 4127
שכנתישכנתעלמיםרביםרבתאוצרתבאקצךאמתבצעך
O you who dwell by great waters,With vast storehouses,Your time is come, the hour of your end.fthe hour of your end Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
Word-by-Word Analysis
שכנתי
780
שכנת
770
עלמים
190
רבים
252
רבת
602
אוצרת
697
בא
3
קצך
210
אמת
441
בצעך
182
Jeremiah 51:14
Gematria: 2507
נשבעיהוהצבאותבנפשוכיאםמלאתיךאדםכילקוענועליךהידדס
GOD
of Hosts has wholeheartedly sworn:I will fill you with enemiesgenemies Lit. “people.” like a locust swarm,They will raise a shout against you.
Word-by-Word Analysis
נשבע
422
יהוה
26
צבאות
499
בנפשו
438
כי
30
אםמלאתיך
542
אדם
45
כילק
160
וענו
132
עליך
130
הידדס
83
Jeremiah 51:15
Gematria: 3056
עשהארץבכחומכיןתבלבחכמתוובתבונתונטהשמים
[God] made the earth by might,Established the world by wisdom,And with understanding stretched out the skies.
When [God] bellows,hWhen [God] bellows Lit. “At the sound of His making.” There is a rumbling of waters in the skies;Vapors rise from the end of the earth,Lightning accompanies the rain,And wind is brought forth from God’s treasuries.
Word-by-Word Analysis
לקול
166
תתו
806
המון
101
מים
90
בשמים
392
ויעל
116
נשאים
401
מקצהארץ
526
ברקים
352
למטר
279
עשה
375
ויוצא
113
רוח
214
מאצרתיו
747
Jeremiah 51:17
Gematria: 2937
נבערכלאדםמדעתהבישכלצרףמפסלכישקרנסכוולארוחבם
Every mortal is proved dull, without knowledge;Every goldsmith is put to shame because of the idol,For their molten images are a deceit—There is no breath in them.
Word-by-Word Analysis
נבער
322
כלאדם
95
מדעת
514
הביש
317
כלצרף
420
מפסל
210
כי
30
שקר
600
נסכו
136
ולארוח
251
בם
42
Jeremiah 51:18
Gematria: 2611
הבלהמהמעשהתעתעיםבעתפקדתםיאבדו
They are delusion, a work of mockery;In their hour of doom, they shall perish.
Word-by-Word Analysis
הבל
37
המה
50
מעשה
415
תעתעים
990
בעת
472
פקדתם
624
יאבדו
23
Jeremiah 51:19
Gematria: 2578
לאכאלהחלקיעקובכייוצרהכלהואושבטנחלתויהוהצבאותשמופ
Not like these is the Portion of Jacob—The One who formed all things,With Israel as a permanent possession—Whose name is GOD of Hosts.
Word-by-Word Analysis
לאכאלה
87
חלק
138
יעקוב
188
כייוצר
336
הכל
55
הוא
12
ושבט
317
נחלתו
494
יהוה
26
צבאות
499
שמופ
426
Jeremiah 51:20
Gematria: 2843
מפץאתהליכלימלחמהונפצתיבךגויםוהשחתיבךממלכות
You are My war club, [My] weapons of battle;With you I clubbed nations,With you I destroyed kingdoms;
Word-by-Word Analysis
מפץאתה
616
לי
40
כלי
60
מלחמה
123
ונפצתי
636
בך
22
גוים
59
והשחתי
729
בך
22
ממלכות
536
Jeremiah 51:21
Gematria: 2132
ונפצתיבךסוסורכבוונפצתיבךרכבורכבו
With you I clubbed horse and rider,With you I clubbed chariot and driver,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ונפצתי
636
בך
22
סוס
126
ורכבו
234
ונפצתי
636
בך
22
רכב
222
ורכבו
234
Jeremiah 51:22
Gematria: 3745
ונפצתיבךאישואשהונפצתיבךזקןונערונפצתיבךבחורובתולה
With you I clubbed man and woman,With you I clubbed graybeard and boy,With you I clubbed youth and maiden;
See, I will deal with you, O mountain of the destroyer—declares GOD—Destroyer of the whole earth!I will stretch out My hand against youAnd roll you down from the crags,And make you a burnt-out mountain.
Raise a standard on earth,Sound a horn among the nations,Appoint nations against her,Assemble kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz—Designate a marshal against her,Bring up horses like swarmingiswarming Meaning of Heb. uncertain. locusts!
The warriors of Babylon stop fighting,They sit in the strongholds,Their might is dried up,They become women.Her dwellings are set afire,Her bars are broken.
“Nebuchadrezzar king of BabylonDevoured me and discomfited me;He swallowed me like a dragon,He filled his belly with my dainties,And set me down like an empty dish;Then he rinsed me out.krinsed me out Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
Let the violence done me and my kindredBe upon Babylon,”Says the inhabitant of Zion;“And let my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”Says Jerusalem.
When they are heated, I will set out their drinkAnd get them drunk, that they may become hilariousmWhen they are heated, I will set out their drink / And get them drunk, that they may become hilarious Emendation yields “With poison [so Syriac] will I set out their drink / And get them drunk till they fall unconscious” (so ancient versions). And then sleep an endless sleep,Never to awake—declares GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בחמם
90
אשית
711
אתמשתיהם
1196
והשכרתים
981
למען
190
יעלזו
123
וישנו
372
שנתעולם
896
ולא
37
יקיצו
216
נאם
91
יהוה
26
Jeremiah 51:40
Gematria: 1357
אורידםככריםלטבוחכאיליםעםעתודים
I will bring them down like lambs for slaughter,Like rams and he-goats.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אורידם
261
ככרים
290
לטבוח
55
כאילים
111
עםעתודים
640
Jeremiah 51:41
Gematria: 4048
איךנלכדהששךותתפשתהלתכלהארץאיךהיתהלשמהבבלבגוים
How has SheshachnSheshach See note at 25.26. been captured,The praise of the whole earth been taken!How has Babylon becomeA horror to the nations!
Word-by-Word Analysis
איך
31
נלכדה
109
ששך
620
ותתפש
1186
תהלת
835
כלהארץ
346
איך
31
היתה
420
לשמה
375
בבל
34
בגוים
61
Jeremiah 51:42
Gematria: 981
עלהעלבבלהיםבהמוןגליונכסתה
The sea has risen over Babylon,She is covered by its roaring waves.
And I will deal with Bel in Babylon,And make him disgorge what he has swallowed,And nations shall no more gaze on him with joy.Even the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ופקדתי
600
עלבל
132
בבבל
36
והצאתי
512
אתבלעו
509
מפיו
136
ולאינהרו
308
אליו
47
עוד
80
גוים
59
גםחומת
497
בבל
34
נפלה
165
Jeremiah 51:45
Gematria: 2338
צאומתוכהעמיומלטואישאתנפשומחרוןאףיהוה
Depart from there, O My people,Save your lives, each of you,From GOD’s furious anger.
Do not be downhearted or afraidAt the rumors heard in the land:A rumor will come one year,And another rumor the next yearOf violence in the land,And of ruler against ruler.
For a ravager is coming upon Babylon,Her warriors shall be captured, their bows shall be snapped.For the ETERNAL is a God of requital—Who deals retribution.
I will make her officials and her sages drunk,Her governors and prefects and warriors;And they shall sleep an endless sleep,Never to awaken—declares the KingoKing See note at 46.18. whose name is GOD of Hosts.
Thus said GOD of Hosts:Babylon’s broad wall shall be knocked down,And her high gates set afire.Peoples shall labor for naught,And nations have wearied themselves for fire.
The instructions that the prophet Jeremiah gave to Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, when the latter went withpwith Emendation yields “at the instance of.” King Zedekiah of Judah to Babylonia, in the fourth year of [Zedekiah’s] reign. Seraiah was quartermaster.qquartermaster Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
And say, ‘O ETERNAL One, You Yourself have declared concerning this place that it shall be cut off, without inhabitants—humans or animals; that it shall be a desolation for all time.’
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואמרת
647
יהוה
26
אתה
406
דברת
606
אלהמקום
222
הזה
17
להכריתו
671
לבלתי
472
היותבו
429
יושב
318
למאדם
115
ועדבהמה
132
כישממות
816
עולם
146
תהיה
420
Jeremiah 51:63
Gematria: 4683
והיהככלתךלקראאתהספרהזהתקשרעליואבןוהשלכתואלתוךפרת
And when you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and hurl it into the Euphrates.
And say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink and never rise again, because of the disaster that I will bring upon it. And [nations] shall have wearied themselves [for fire].’”r[for fire] Cf. v. 58, last line. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.