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Jeremiah 51

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1 τάδε λέγει κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξεγείρω ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Χαλδαίους ἄνεμον καύσωνα διαφθείροντα 2 καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ὑβριστάς καὶ καθυβρίσουσιν αὐτὴν καὶ λυμανοῦνται τὴν γῆν αὐτῆς οὐαὶ ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα κυκλόθεν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακώσεως αὐτῆς 3 ἐπ' αὐτὴν τεινέτω ὁ τείνων τὸ τόξον αὐτοῦ καὶ περιθέσθω ᾧ ἐστιν ὅπλα αὐτῷ καὶ μὴ φείσησθε ἐπὶ νεανίσκους αὐτῆς καὶ ἀφανίσατε πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῆς 4 καὶ πεσοῦνται τραυματίαι ἐν γῇ Χαλδαίων καὶ κατακεκεντημένοι ἔξωθεν αὐτῆς 5 διότι οὐκ ἐχήρευσεν Ισραηλ καὶ Ιουδας ἀπὸ θεοῦ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ κυρίου παντοκράτορος ὅτι ἡ γῆ αὐτῶν ἐπλήσθη ἀδικίας ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων Ισραηλ 6 φεύγετε ἐκ μέσου Βαβυλῶνος καὶ ἀνασῴζετε ἕκαστος τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ μὴ ἀπορριφῆτε ἐν τῇ ἀδικίᾳ αὐτῆς ὅτι καιρὸς ἐκδικήσεως αὐτῆς ἐστιν παρὰ κυρίου ἀνταπόδομα αὐτὸς ἀνταποδίδωσιν αὐτῇ 7 ποτήριον χρυσοῦν Βαβυλὼν ἐν χειρὶ κυρίου μεθύσκον πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴνου αὐτῆς ἐπίοσαν ἔθνη διὰ τοῦτο ἐσαλεύθησαν 8 καὶ ἄφνω ἔπεσεν Βαβυλὼν καὶ συνετρίβη θρηνεῖτε αὐτήν λάβετε ῥητίνην τῇ διαφθορᾷ αὐτῆς εἴ πως ἰαθήσεται 9 ἰατρεύσαμεν τὴν Βαβυλῶνα καὶ οὐκ ἰάθη ἐγκαταλίπωμεν αὐτὴν καὶ ἀπέλθωμεν ἕκαστος εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἤγγισεν εἰς οὐρανὸν τὸ κρίμα αὐτῆς ἐξῆρεν ἕως τῶν ἄστρων 10 ἐξήνεγκεν κύριος τὸ κρίμα αὐτοῦ δεῦτε καὶ ἀναγγείλωμεν εἰς Σιων τὰ ἔργα κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν 11 παρασκευάζετε τὰ τοξεύματα πληροῦτε τὰς φαρέτρας ἤγειρεν κύριος τὸ πνεῦμα βασιλέως Μήδων ὅτι εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ἡ ὀργὴ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι αὐτήν ὅτι ἐκδίκησις κυρίου ἐστίν ἐκδίκησις λαοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐστιν 12 ἐπὶ τειχέων Βαβυλῶνος ἄρατε σημεῖον ἐπιστήσατε φαρέτρας ἐγείρατε φυλακάς ἑτοιμάσατε ὅπλα ὅτι ἐνεχείρησεν καὶ ποιήσει κύριος ἃ ἐλάλησεν ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Βαβυλῶνα 13 κατασκηνοῦντας ἐφ' ὕδασι πολλοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ πλήθει θησαυρῶν αὐτῆς ἥκει τὸ πέρας σου ἀληθῶς εἰς τὰ σπλάγχα σου 14 ὅτι ὤμοσεν κύριος κατὰ τοῦ βραχίονος αὐτοῦ διότι πληρώσω σε ἀνθρώπων ὡσεὶ ἀκρίδων καὶ φθέγξονται ἐπὶ σὲ οἱ καταβαίνοντες 15 ποιῶν γῆν ἐν τῇ ἰσχύι αὐτοῦ ἑτοιμάζων οἰκουμένην ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ συνέσει αὐτοῦ ἐξέτεινεν τὸν οὐρανόν 16 εἰς φωνὴν ἔθετο ἦχος ὕδατος ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ καὶ ἀνήγαγεν νεφέλας ἀπ' ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς ἀστραπὰς εἰς ὑετὸν ἐποίησεν καὶ ἐξήγαγεν φῶς ἐκ θησαυρῶν αὐτοῦ 17 ἐμωράνθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ γνώσεως κατῃσχύνθη πᾶς χρυσοχόος ἀπὸ τῶν γλυπτῶν αὐτοῦ ὅτι ψευδῆ ἐχώνευσαν οὐκ ἔστιν πνεῦμα ἐν αὐτοῖς 18 μάταιά ἐστιν ἔργα μεμωκημένα ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκέψεως αὐτῶν ἀπολοῦνται 19 οὐ τοιαύτη μερὶς τῷ Ιακωβ ὅτι ὁ πλάσας τὰ πάντα αὐτός ἐστιν κληρονομία αὐτοῦ κύριος ὄνομα αὐτῷ 20 διασκορπίζεις σύ μοι σκεύη πολέμου καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἔθνη καὶ ἐξαρῶ ἐκ σοῦ βασιλεῖς 21 καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἵππον καὶ ἀναβάτην αὐτοῦ καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἅρματα καὶ ἀναβάτας αὐτῶν 22 καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ νεανίσκον καὶ παρθένον καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἄνδρα καὶ γυναῖκα 23 καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ποιμένα καὶ τὸ ποίμνιον αὐτοῦ καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ γεωργὸν καὶ τὸ γεώργιον αὐτοῦ καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἡγεμόνας καὶ στρατηγούς σου 24 καὶ ἀνταποδώσω τῇ Βαβυλῶνι καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς κατοικοῦσι Χαλδαίοις πάσας τὰς κακίας αὐτῶν ἃς ἐποίησαν ἐπὶ Σιων κατ' ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν λέγει κύριος 25 ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πρὸς σέ τὸ ὄρος τὸ διεφθαρμένον τὸ διαφθεῖρον πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν καὶ ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ κατακυλιῶ σε ἀπὸ τῶν πετρῶν καὶ δώσω σε ὡς ὄρος ἐμπεπυρισμένον 26 καὶ οὐ μὴ λάβωσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ λίθον εἰς γωνίαν καὶ λίθον εἰς θεμέλιον ὅτι εἰς ἀφανισμὸν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔσῃ λέγει κύριος 27 ἄρατε σημεῖον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς σαλπίσατε ἐν ἔθνεσιν σάλπιγγι ἁγιάσατε ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἔθνη παραγγείλατε ἐπ' αὐτὴν βασιλείαις Αραρατ παρ' ἐμοῦ καὶ τοῖς Ασχαναζαίοις ἐπιστήσατε ἐπ' αὐτὴν βελοστάσεις ἀναβιβάσατε ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἵππον ὡς ἀκρίδων πλῆθος 28 ἁγιάσατε ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἔθνη τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Μήδων καὶ πάσης τῆς γῆς τοὺς ἡγουμένους αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντας τοὺς στρατηγοὺς αὐτοῦ 29 ἐσείσθη ἡ γῆ καὶ ἐπόνεσεν διότι ἐξανέστη ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα λογισμὸς κυρίου τοῦ θεῖναι τὴν γῆν Βαβυλῶνος εἰς ἀφανισμὸν καὶ μὴ κατοικεῖσθαι αὐτήν 30 ἐξέλιπεν μαχητὴς Βαβυλῶνος τοῦ πολεμεῖν καθήσονται ἐκεῖ ἐν περιοχῇ ἐθραύσθη ἡ δυναστεία αὐτῶν ἐγενήθησαν ὡσεὶ γυναῖκες ἐνεπυρίσθη τὰ σκηνώματα αὐτῆς συνετρίβησαν οἱ μοχλοὶ αὐτῆς 31 διώκων εἰς ἀπάντησιν διώκοντος διώξεται καὶ ἀναγγέλλων εἰς ἀπάντησιν ἀναγγέλλοντος τοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι τῷ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος ὅτι ἑάλωκεν ἡ πόλις αὐτοῦ 32 ἀπ' ἐσχάτου τῶν διαβάσεων αὐτοῦ ἐλήμφθησαν καὶ τὰ συστέματα αὐτῶν ἐνέπρησαν ἐν πυρί καὶ ἄνδρες αὐτοῦ οἱ πολεμισταὶ ἐξέρχονται 33 διότι τάδε λέγει κύριος οἶκοι βασιλέως Βαβυλῶνος ὡς ἅλων ὥριμος ἀλοηθήσονται ἔτι μικρὸν καὶ ἥξει ὁ ἄμητος αὐτῆς 34 κατέφαγέν με ἐμερίσατό με κατέλαβέν με σκεῦος λεπτὸν Ναβουχοδονοσορ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος κατέπιέν με ὡς δράκων ἔπλησεν τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς τρυφῆς μου ἐξῶσέν με 35 οἱ μόχθοι μου καὶ αἱ ταλαιπωρίαι μου εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ἐρεῖ κατοικοῦσα Σιων καὶ τὸ αἷμά μου ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Χαλδαίους ἐρεῖ Ιερουσαλημ 36 διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ κρινῶ τὴν ἀντίδικόν σου καὶ ἐκδικήσω τὴν ἐκδίκησίν σου καὶ ἐρημώσω τὴν θάλασσαν αὐτῆς καὶ ξηρανῶ τὴν πηγὴν αὐτῆς 37 καὶ ἔσται Βαβυλὼν εἰς ἀφανισμὸν καὶ οὐ κατοικηθήσεται 38 ἅμα ὡς λέοντες ἐξηγέρθησαν καὶ ὡς σκύμνοι λεόντων 39 ἐν τῇ θερμασίᾳ αὐτῶν δώσω πότημα αὐτοῖς καὶ μεθύσω αὐτούς ὅπως καρωθῶσιν καὶ ὑπνώσωσιν ὕπνον αἰώνιον καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐγερθῶσι λέγει κύριος 40 καταβιβάσω αὐτοὺς ὡς ἄρνας εἰς σφαγὴν καὶ ὡς κριοὺς μετ' ἐρίφων 41 πῶς ἑάλω καὶ ἐθηρεύθη τὸ καύχημα πάσης τῆς γῆς πῶς ἐγένετο Βαβυλὼν εἰς ἀφανισμὸν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν 42 ἀνέβη ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα ἡ θάλασσα ἐν ἤχῳ κυμάτων αὐτῆς καὶ κατεκαλύφθη 43 ἐγενήθησαν αἱ πόλεις αὐτῆς γῆ ἄνυδρος καὶ ἄβατος οὐ κατοικήσει ἐν αὐτῇ οὐδὲ εἷς οὐδὲ μὴ καταλύσῃ ἐν αὐτῇ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου 44 καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα καὶ ἐξοίσω ἃ κατέπιεν ἐκ τοῦ στόματος αὐτῆς καὶ οὐ μὴ συναχθῶσιν πρὸς αὐτὴν ἔτι τὰ ἔθνη 45 46 47 48 49 καὶ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι πεσοῦνται τραυματίαι πάσης τῆς γῆς 50 ἀνασῳζόμενοι ἐκ γῆς πορεύεσθε καὶ μὴ ἵστασθε οἱ μακρόθεν μνήσθητε τοῦ κυρίου καὶ Ιερουσαλημ ἀναβήτω ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν ὑμῶν 51 ᾐσχύνθημεν ὅτι ἠκούσαμεν ὀνειδισμὸν ἡμῶν κατεκάλυψεν ἀτιμία τὸ πρόσωπον ἡμῶν εἰσῆλθον ἀλλογενεῖς εἰς τὰ ἅγια ἡμῶν εἰς οἶκον κυρίου 52 διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται λέγει κύριος καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐπὶ τὰ γλυπτὰ αὐτῆς καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ αὐτῆς πεσοῦνται τραυματίαι 53 ὅτι ἐὰν ἀναβῇ Βαβυλὼν ὡς ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ὅτι ἐὰν ὀχυρώσῃ ὕψος ἰσχύος αὐτῆς παρ' ἐμοῦ ἥξουσιν ἐξολεθρεύοντες αὐτήν λέγει κύριος 54 φωνὴ κραυγῆς ἐν Βαβυλῶνι καὶ συντριβὴ μεγάλη ἐν γῇ Χαλδαίων 55 ὅτι ἐξωλέθρευσεν κύριος τὴν Βαβυλῶνα καὶ ἀπώλεσεν ἀπ' αὐτῆς φωνὴν μεγάλην ἠχοῦσαν ὡς ὕδατα πολλά ἔδωκεν εἰς ὄλεθρον φωνὴν αὐτῆς 56 ὅτι ἦλθεν ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα ταλαιπωρία ἑάλωσαν οἱ μαχηταὶ αὐτῆς ἐπτόηται τὸ τόξον αὐτῶν ὅτι θεὸς ἀνταποδίδωσιν αὐτοῖς κύριος ἀνταποδίδωσιν αὐτῇ τὴν ἀνταπόδοσιν 57 καὶ μεθύσει μέθῃ τοὺς ἡγεμόνας αὐτῆς καὶ τοὺς σοφοὺς αὐτῆς καὶ τοὺς στρατηγοὺς αὐτῆς λέγει ὁ βασιλεύς κύριος παντοκράτωρ ὄνομα αὐτῷ 58 τάδε λέγει κύριος τεῖχος Βαβυλῶνος ἐπλατύνθη κατασκαπτόμενον κατασκαφήσεται καὶ αἱ πύλαι αὐτῆς αἱ ὑψηλαὶ ἐμπυρισθήσονται καὶ οὐ κοπιάσουσιν λαοὶ εἰς κενόν καὶ ἔθνη ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐκλείψουσιν

hus says the Lord: Behold I will raise up as it were a pestilential wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants thereof, who have lifted up their heart against me. 2 And I will send to Babylon fanners, and they shall fan her, and shall destroy her land: for they have come upon her on every side in the day of her affliction. 3 Let not him that bends, bend his bow, and let not him go up that is armed with a coat of mail: spare not her young men, destroy all her army. 4 And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and the wounded in the regions thereof. 5 For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken by their God the Lord of hosts: but their land has been filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. 6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she has deserved. 7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, that made all the earth drunk: the nations have drunk of her wine, and therefore they have staggered. 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed. 9 We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment has reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds. 10 The Lord has brought forth our justices: Come, and let us declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God. 11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers, the Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: and his mind is against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. 12 Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord has both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 O you that dwell upon many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come for your entire destruction. 14 The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself, saying: I will fill you with men as with locusts, and they shall lift up a joyful shout against you. 15 He that made the earth by his power, that has prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. 16 When he utters his voice the waters are multiplied in heaven: he lifts up the clouds from the ends of the earth, he has turned lightning into rain: and has brought forth the wind out of his treasures. 17 Every man has become foolish by his knowledge: every founder is confounded by his idol, for what he has cast is a lie, and there is no breath in them. 18 They are vain works, and worthy to be laughed at, in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name. 20 You dash together for me the weapons of war, and with you I will dash nations together, and with you I will destroy kingdoms: 21 And with you I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with you I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that gets up into it: 22 And with you I will break in pieces man and woman, and with you I will break in pieces the old man and the child, and with you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin: 23 And with you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock, and with you I will break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers. 24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil, that they have done in Sion, before your eyes, says the Lord. 25 Behold I come against you, you destroying mountain, says the Lord, which corrupts the whole earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon you, and will roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. 26 And they shall not take of you a stone for the corner, nor a stone for foundations, but you shall be destroyed for ever, says the Lord. 27 Set up a standard in the land: sound with the trumpet among the nations: prepare the nations against her: call together against her the kings of Ararat, Menni, and Ascenez: number Taphsar against her, bring the horse as the stinging locust. 28 Prepare the nations against her, the kings of Media, their captains, and all their rulers, and all the land of their dominion. 29 And the land shall be in a commotion, and shall be troubled: for the design of the Lord against Babylon shall awake, to make the land of Babylon desert and uninhabitable. 30 The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength has failed, and they have become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken. 31 One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other: 32 And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. 33 For thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34 Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has eaten me up, he has devoured me: he has made me as an empty vessel: he has swallowed me up like a dragon, he has filled his belly with my delicate meats, and he has cast me out. 35 The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, says the habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, says Jerusalem. 36 Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold I will judge your cause, and will take vengeance for you, and I will make her sea desolate, and will dry up her spring. 37 And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions. 39 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, says the Lord. 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids. 41 How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations? 42 The sea has come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 43 Her cities have become an astonishment, a land uninhabited and desolate, a land wherein none can dwell, nor son of man pass through it. 44 And I will visit against Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he had swallowed down: and the nations shall no more flow together to him, for the wall also of Babylon shall fall. 45 Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord. 46 And lest your hearts faint, and you fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler. 47 Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 48 And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the north, says the Lord. 49 And as Babylon caused that there should fall slain in Israel: so of Babylon there shall fall slain in all the earth. 50 You that have escaped the sword, come away, stand not still: remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: because strangers have come upon the sanctuaries of the house of the Lord. 52 Therefore behold the days come, says the Lord, and I will visit her graven things, and in all her land the wounded shall groan: 53 If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, says the Lord. 54 The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: 55 Because the Lord has laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice has made a noise: 56 Because the spoiler has come upon her, that is, upon Babylon, and her valiant men are taken, and their bow is weakened, because the Lord, who is a strong revenger, will surely repay. 57 And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, says the king whose name is Lord of hosts. 58 Thus says the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and shall perish.

1 Hæc dicit Dominus : Ecce ego suscitabo super Babylonem et super habitatores ejus, qui cor suum levaverunt contra me, quasi ventum pestilentem : 2 et mittam in Babylonem ventilatores, et ventilabunt eam et demolientur terram ejus, quoniam venerunt super eam undique in die afflictionis ejus. 3 Non tendat qui tendit arcum suum, et non ascendat loricatus : nolite parcere juvenibus ejus; interficite omnem militiam ejus. 4 Et cadent interfecti in terra Chaldæorum, et vulnerati in regionibus ejus. 5 Quoniam non fuit viduatus Israël et Juda a Deo suo, Domino exercituum, terra autem eorum repleta est delicto a Sancto Israël. 6 Fugite de medio Babylonis, et salvet unusquisque animam suam : nolite tacere super iniquitatem ejus, quoniam tempus ultionis est a Domino : vicissitudinem ipse retribuet ei. 7 Calix aureus Babylon in manu Domini, inebrians omnem terram : de vino ejus biberunt gentes, et ideo commotæ sunt. 8 Subito cecidit Babylon, et contrita est. Ululate super eam : tollite resinam ad dolorem ejus, si forte sanetur. 9 Curavimus Babylonem, et non est sanata : derelinquamus eam, et eamus unusquisque in terram suam : quoniam pervenit usque ad cælos judicium ejus, et elevatum est usque ad nubes. 10 Protulit Dominus justitias nostras : venite, et narremus in Sion opus Domini Dei nostri. 11 Acuite sagittas, implete pharetras : suscitavit Dominus spiritum regum Medorum : et contra Babylonem mens ejus est ut perdat eam, quoniam ultio Domini est, ultio templi sui. 12 Super muros Babylonis levate signum, augete custodiam, levate custodes, præparate insidias : quia cogitavit Dominus, et fecit quæcumque locutus est contra habitatores Babylonis. 13 Quæ habitas super aquas multas, locuples in thesauris : venit finis tuus, pedalis præcisionis tuæ. 14 Juravit Dominus exercituum per animam suam : Quoniam replebo te hominibus quasi brucho, et super te celeuma cantabitur. 15 Qui fecit terram in fortitudine sua, præparavit orbem in sapientia sua, et prudentia sua extendit cælos. 16 Dante eo vocem, multiplicantur aquæ in cælo : qui levat nubes ab extremo terræ, fulgura in pluviam fecit, et produxit ventum de thesauris suis. 17 Stultus factus est omnis homo a scientia; confusus est omnis conflator in sculptili : quia mendax est conflatio eorum, nec est spiritus in eis. 18 Vana sunt opera, et risu digna : in tempore visitationis suæ peribunt. 19 Non sicut hæc, pars Jacob, quia qui fecit omnia ipse est : et Israël sceptrum hæreditatis ejus : Dominus exercituum nomen ejus. 20 Collidis tu mihi vasa belli : et ego collidam in te gentes, et disperdam in te regna : 21 et collidam in te equum et equitem ejus : et collidam in te currum et ascensorem ejus : 22 et collidam in te virum et mulierem : et collidam in te senem et puerum : et collidam in te juvenem et virginem : 23 et collidam in te pastorem et gregem ejus : et collidam in te agricolam et jugales ejus : et collidam in te duces et magistratus : 24 et reddam Babyloni, et cunctis habitatoribus Chaldææ, omne malum suum quod fecerunt in Sion, in oculis vestris, ait Dominus. 25 Ecce ego ad te, mons pestifer, ait Dominus, qui corrumpis universam terram : et extendam manum meam super te, et evolvam te de petris, et dabo te in montem combustionis : 26 et non tollent de te lapidem in angulum, et lapidem in fundamenta : sed perditus in æternum eris, ait Dominus. 27 Levate signum in terra, clangite buccina in gentibus, sanctificate super eam gentes, annuntiate contra illam regibus Ararat, Menni, et Ascenez : numerate contra eam Taphsar, adducite equum quasi bruchum aculeatum. 28 Sanctificate contra eam gentes, reges Mediæ, duces ejus, et universos magistratus ejus, cunctamque terram potestatis ejus. 29 Et commovebitur terra et conturbabitur, quia evigilabit contra Babylonem cogitatio Domini, ut ponat terram Babylonis desertam et inhabitabilem. 30 Cessaverunt fortes Babylonis a prælio; habitaverunt in præsidiis : devoratum est robur eorum, et facti sunt quasi mulieres : incensa sunt tabernacula ejus, contriti sunt vectes ejus. 31 Currens obviam currenti veniet, et nuntius obvius nuntianti, ut annuntiet regi Babylonis quia capta est civitas ejus a summo usque ad summum. 32 Et vada præoccupata sunt, et paludes incensæ sunt igni, et viri bellatores conturbati sunt. 33 Quia hæc dicit Dominus exercituum, Deus Israël : Filia Babylonis quasi area, tempus trituræ ejus : adhuc modicum, et veniet tempus messionis ejus. 34 Comedit me, devoravit me Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis : reddidit me quasi vas inane, absorbuit me quasi draco, replevit ventrem suum teneritudine mea, et ejecit me. 35 Iniquitas adversum me et caro mea super Babylonem, dicit habitatio Sion : et sanguis meus super habitatores Chaldææ, dicit Jerusalem. 36 Propterea hæc dicit Dominus : Ecce ego judicabo causam tuam, et ulciscar ultionem tuam : et desertum faciam mare ejus, et siccabo venam ejus. 37 Et erit Babylon in tumulos, habitatio draconum, stupor et sibilus, eo quod non sit habitator. 38 Simul ut leones rugient; excutient comas veluti catuli leonum. 39 In calore eorum ponam potus eorum, et inebriabo eos ut sopiantur, et dormiant somnum sempiternum, et non consurgant, dicit Dominus. 40 Deducam eos quasi agnos ad victimam, et quasi arietes cum hædis. 41 Quomodo capta est Sesach, et comprehensa est inclyta universæ terræ! quomodo facta est in stuporem Babylon inter gentes! 42 Ascendit super Babylonem mare : multitudine fluctuum ejus operta est. 43 Factæ sunt civitates ejus in stuporem, terra inhabitabilis et deserta, terra in qua nullus habitet, nec transeat per eam filius hominis. 44 Et visitabo super Bel in Babylone, et ejiciam quod absorbuerat de ore ejus : et non confluent ad eum ultra gentes, siquidem et murus Babylonis corruet. 45 Egredimini de medio ejus, populus meus, ut salvet unusquisque animam suam ab ira furoris Domini, 46 et ne forte mollescat cor vestrum, et timeatis auditum qui audietur in terra : et veniet in anno auditio, et post hunc annum auditio, et iniquitas in terra, et dominator super dominatorem. 47 Propterea ecce dies veniunt, et visitabo super sculptilia Babylonis, et omnis terra ejus confundetur, et universi interfecti ejus cadent in medio ejus. 48 Et laudabunt super Babylonem cæli et terra, et omnia quæ in eis sunt : quia ab aquilone venient ei prædones, ait Dominus. 49 Et quomodo fecit Babylon, ut caderent occisi in Israël, sic de Babylone cadent occisi in universa terra. 50 Qui fugistis gladium, venite, nolite stare : recordamini procul Domini, et Jerusalem ascendat super cor vestrum. 51 Confusi sumus, quoniam audivimus opprobrium : operuit ignominia facies nostras, quia venerunt alieni super sanctificationem domus Domini. 52 Propterea ecce dies veniunt, ait Dominus, et visitabo super sculptilia ejus, et in omni terra ejus mugiet vulneratus. 53 Si ascenderit Babylon in cælum, et firmaverit in excelso robur suum, a me venient vastatores ejus, ait Dominus. 54 Vox clamoris de Babylone, et contritio magna de terra Chaldæorum : 55 quoniam vastavit Dominus Babylonem, et perdidit ex ea vocem magnam : et sonabunt fluctus eorum quasi aquæ multæ; dedit sonitum vox eorum : 56 quia venit super eam, id est super Babylonem, prædo, et apprehensi sunt fortes ejus, et emarcuit arcus eorum, quia fortis ultor Dominus reddens retribuet. 57 Et inebriabo principes ejus, et sapientes ejus, et duces ejus, et magistratus ejus, et fortes ejus : et dormient somnum sempiternum, et non expergiscentur, ait Rex (Dominus exercituum nomen ejus). 58 Hæc dicit Dominus exercituum : Murus Babylonis ille latissimus suffossione suffodietur, et portæ ejus excelsæ igni comburentur, et labores populorum ad nihilum, et gentium in ignem erunt, et disperibunt.

59 ὁ λόγος ὃν ἐνετείλατο κύριος Ιερεμια τῷ προφήτῃ εἰπεῖν τῷ Σαραια υἱῷ Νηριου υἱοῦ Μαασαιου ὅτε ἐπορεύετο παρὰ Σεδεκιου βασιλέως Ιουδα εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ τετάρτῳ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ καὶ Σαραιας ἄρχων δώρων 60 καὶ ἔγραψεν Ιερεμιας πάντα τὰ κακά ἃ ἥξει ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα ἐν βιβλίῳ ἑνί πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους τοὺς γεγραμμένους ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα 61 καὶ εἶπεν Ιερεμιας πρὸς Σαραιαν ὅταν ἔλθῃς εἰς Βαβυλῶνα καὶ ὄψῃ καὶ ἀναγνώσῃ πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους 62 καὶ ἐρεῖς κύριε κύριε σὺ ἐλάλησας ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον τοῦτον τοῦ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι αὐτὸν καὶ τοῦ μὴ εἶναι ἐν αὐτῷ κατοικοῦντας ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἕως κτήνους ὅτι ἀφανισμὸς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔσται 63 καὶ ἔσται ὅταν παύσῃ τοῦ ἀναγινώσκειν τὸ βιβλίον τοῦτο καὶ ἐπιδήσεις ἐπ' αὐτὸ λίθον καὶ ῥίψεις αὐτὸ εἰς μέσον τοῦ Εὐφράτου 64 καὶ ἐρεῖς οὕτως καταδύσεται Βαβυλὼν καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀναστῇ ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν κακῶν ὧν ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ἐπ' αὐτήν

59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Saraias the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, when he went with King Sedecias to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign: now Saraias was chief over the prophecy. 60 And Jeremias wrote in one book all the evil that was to come upon Babylon: all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When you shall come into Babylon, and shall see, and shall read all these words, 62 you shall say: O Lord, you have spoken against this place to destroy it: so that there should be neither man nor beast to dwell therein, and that it should be desolate for ever. 63 And when you shall have made an end of reading this book, you shall tie a stone to it, and shall throw it into the midst of the Euphrates: 64 And you shall say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias.

59 Verbum quod præcepit Jeremias propheta Saraiæ filio Neriæ filii Maasiæ, cum pergeret cum Sedecia rege in Babylonem, in anno quarto regni ejus : Saraias autem erat princeps prophetiæ. 60 Et scripsit Jeremias omne malum quod venturum erat super Babylonem, in libro uno : omnia verba hæc quæ scripta sunt contra Babylonem. 61 Et dixit Jeremias ad Saraiam : Cum veneris in Babylonem, et videris, et legeris omnia verba hæc, 62 dices : Domine, tu locutus es contra locum istum, ut disperderes eum, ne sit qui in eo habitet, ab homine usque ad pecus, et ut sit perpetua solitudo. 63 Cumque compleveris legere librum istum, ligabis ad eum lapidem, et projicies illum in medium Euphraten, 64 et dices : Sic submergetur Babylon, et non consurget a facie afflictionis quam ego adduco super eam, et dissolvetur. Hucusque verba Jeremiæ.