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Isaiah 21:9Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.Isaiah 21:10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.Isaiah 41:2Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.Isaiah 41:3He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.Isaiah 44:28Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”Isaiah 45:1Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:Isaiah 45:2“I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.Isaiah 45:3I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.Isaiah 45:4For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.Isaiah 45:13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.Isaiah 46:11calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.Isaiah 48:14“Assemble yourselves, all you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.Isaiah 48:15I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.Jeremiah 49:34The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,Jeremiah 49:35Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.Jeremiah 49:36On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.Jeremiah 49:37I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;Jeremiah 49:38and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 49:39But it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:11Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.Jeremiah 51:12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.Jeremiah 51:13You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.Jeremiah 51:14Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.Jeremiah 51:15He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:Jeremiah 51:16when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.Jeremiah 51:17Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.Jeremiah 51:18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.Jeremiah 51:19The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.Jeremiah 51:20You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;Jeremiah 51:21and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;Jeremiah 51:22and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;Jeremiah 51:23and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.Jeremiah 51:24I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:25Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.Jeremiah 51:26They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:27Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.Jeremiah 51:28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.Jeremiah 51:29The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.Jeremiah 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.Jeremiah 51:31One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:Jeremiah 51:32and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.Jeremiah 51:33For thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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 harvest shall come for her.Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.Jeremiah 51:35The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.Jeremiah 51:36Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.Jeremiah 51:37Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.Jeremiah 51:38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ cubs.Jeremiah 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.Jeremiah 51:41How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!Jeremiah 51:42The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.Jeremiah 51:43Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.Jeremiah 51:44I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.Jeremiah 51:45My people, go away from the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:46Don’t let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.Jeremiah 51:47Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.Jeremiah 51:48Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 51:49As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.Jeremiah 51:50You who have escaped the sword, go, don’t stand still; remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.Jeremiah 51:51We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our faces: for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.