New Living Translation (NLT)
Jeremiah 51
21 With you I will shatter armies— destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer.
22 With you I will shatter men and women, old people and children, young men and maidens.
23 With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks, farmers and oxen, captains and officers.
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.
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.
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.
27 Raise a signal flag to the nations. Sound the battle cry! Mobilize them all against Babylon. Prepare them to fight against her! Bring out the armies of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander, and bring a multitude of horses like swarming locusts!
28 Bring against her the armies of the nations— led by the kings of the Medes and all their captains and officers.
29 The earth trembles and writhes in pain, for everything the LORD has planned against Babylon stands unchanged. Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.
30 Her mightiest warriors no longer fight. They stay in their barracks, their courage gone. They have become like women. The invaders have burned the houses and broken down the city gates.
31 The news is passed from one runner to the next as the messengers hurry to tell the king that his city has been captured.
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