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Isaiah 21:9And lo, this, the chariot of a man is coming, A couple of horsemen.’ And he answereth and saith: ‘Fallen, fallen hath Babylon, And all the graven images of her gods He hath broken to the earth.Isaiah 21:10O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!’Isaiah 41:2Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He causeth him to rule, He giveth them as dust to his sword, As driven stubble to his bow.Isaiah 41:3He pursueth them, he passeth over in safety A path with his feet he entereth not.Isaiah 44:28Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of the temple, Thou art founded.Isaiah 45:1Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:Isaiah 45:2‘I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder,Isaiah 45:3And have given to thee treasures of darkness, Even treasures of secret places, So that thou knowest that I, Jehovah, Who am calling on thy name—am the God of Israel.Isaiah 45:4For the sake of my servant Jacob, And of Israel My chosen, I call also thee by thy name, I surname thee, And thou hast not known Me.Isaiah 45:13I have stirred him up in righteousness, And all his ways I make straight, He doth build My city, and My captivity doth send out, Not for price, nor for bribe, said Jehovah of Hosts.Isaiah 46:11Calling from the east a ravenous bird, From a far land the man of My counsel, Yea, I have spoken, yea, I bring it in, I have formed it, yea, I do it.Isaiah 48:14Be gathered all of you, and hear, Who among them did declare these things? Jehovah hath loved him, He doth His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm is on the Chaldeans.Isaiah 48:15I—I have spoken, yea, I have called him, I have brought him in, And he hath made prosperous his way.Jeremiah 49:34That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying:Jeremiah 49:35‘Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am breaking the bow of Elam, The beginning of their might.Jeremiah 49:36And I have brought in to Elam four winds, From the four ends of the heavens, And have scattered them to all these winds, And there is no nation whither outcasts of Elam come not in.Jeremiah 49:37And I have affrighted Elam before their enemies, And before those seeking their life, And I have brought in against them evil, The heat of Mine anger, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them;Jeremiah 49:38And I have set My throne in Elam, And I have destroyed thence King and princes—an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 49:39And it hath come to pass, in the latter end of the days, I turn back to the captivity of Elam, An affirmation of Jehovah!’Jeremiah 51:11Cleanse ye the arrows, fill the shields, Stirred up hath Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Madia, For against Babylon His device is to destroy it, For the vengeance of Jehovah it is, The vengeance of His temple.Jeremiah 51:12Unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign, Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, For Jehovah hath both devised and done that which He spake, Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.Jeremiah 51:13O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain.Jeremiah 51:14Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee with men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against thee—shouting.Jeremiah 51:15The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,Jeremiah 51:16At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters are in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And He bringeth out wind from His treasures.Jeremiah 51:17Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image, And there is no breath in them.Jeremiah 51:18Vanity are they—work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.Jeremiah 51:19Not like these is the portion of Jacob, For He is former of all things, And Israel is the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.Jeremiah 51:20An axe art thou to me—weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms,Jeremiah 51:21And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer,Jeremiah 51:22And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,Jeremiah 51:23And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.Jeremiah 51:24And I have recompensed to Babylon, And to all inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evil that they have done in Zion, Before your eyes—an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 51:25Lo, I am against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain.Jeremiah 51:26And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 51:27Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.Jeremiah 51:28Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.Jeremiah 51:29And shake doth the land, and it is pained, For stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.Jeremiah 51:30Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might, they have become woman, They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars.Jeremiah 51:31Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon, For, captured hath been his city—at the extremity.Jeremiah 51:32And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.Jeremiah 51:33For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing—yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.Jeremiah 51:34Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.Jeremiah 51:35My wrong, and that of my flesh is on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood is on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say doth Jerusalem.Jeremiah 51:36Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.Jeremiah 51:37And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.Jeremiah 51:38Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions’ whelps.Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not—an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 51:40I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.Jeremiah 51:41How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.Jeremiah 51:42Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.Jeremiah 51:43Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land—none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.Jeremiah 51:44And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed—from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.Jeremiah 51:45Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver ye, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah,Jeremiah 51:46And lest your heart be tender, And ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And come in a year hath the report, And after it in a year the report, And violence is in the land, ruler against ruler;Jeremiah 51:47Therefore, lo, days are coming, And I have seen after the graven images of Babylon. And all its land is ashamed, And all its pierced ones do fall in its midst.Jeremiah 51:48And cried aloud against Babylon Have heavens and earth, and all that is in them, For, from the north come to it do the spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 51:49Even Babylon is to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all the earth.Jeremiah 51:50Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.Jeremiah 51:51We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Covered hath shame our faces, For come in have strangers, against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.