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Therefore My wrath and My anger were poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so they have become a waste place and a desolation as it is this day.

So now, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Why are you doing great evil against yourselves, so as to cut off from you man and woman, infant and nursing baby, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,

provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to sojourn, so that you might be cut off and become an imprecation and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

So there will be no one who escapes or any survivors for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to sojourn there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are longing to return to live; for none will return except a few who escape.'"

So Yahweh was no longer able to bear it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have done; thus your land has become a waste place, an object of horror, and an imprecation, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

This will be the sign to you,' declares Yahweh, ‘that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surely be established against you for evil.'

Indeed, that day belongs to Lord Yahweh of hosts,A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His adversaries;And the sword will devour and be satiatedAnd drink its fill of their blood;For there will be a sacrifice to Lord Yahweh of hostsIn the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

A destroyer will come to every city,So that no city will escape;The valley also will perish,And the plateau will be destroyed,As Yahweh has said.

"Make him drunk, for he has magnified himself against Yahweh; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

So gladness and joy are gathered upFrom the fruitful orchard, even from the land of Moab.And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses;No one will tread them with shouting,The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

"How shattered it is! How they have wailed! How Moab has turned his back—he is ashamed! So Moab will become a laughingstock and an object of terror to all around him."

Kerioth has been captured,And the strongholds have been seized,So the hearts of the mighty men of Moab in that dayWill be like the heart of a woman in labor.

But I have stripped Esau bare;I have uncovered his hiding places,So that he will not be able to conceal himself;His seed has been destroyed along with his relativesAnd his neighbors, and he is no more.

So I will shatter Elam before their enemiesAnd before those who seek their lives;And I will bring calamity upon them,Even My burning anger,' declares Yahweh,‘And I will send out the sword after themUntil I have consumed them.

Raise a loud shout against her on every side!She has given herself up, her pillars have fallen,Her walls have been pulled down.For this is the vengeance of Yahweh:Take vengeance on her;As she has done to others, so do to her.

"Summon many against Babylon,All those who bend the bow:Encamp against her on every side,Let there be no escape.Repay her according to her work;According to all that she has done, so do to her;For she has become arrogant against Yahweh,Against the Holy One of Israel.

Let not him who bends his bow bend it,Nor let him rise up in his scale‑armor;So do not spare her young men;Devote all her army to destruction.

So the land quakes and writhes,For the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand,To make the land of BabylonA desolation without inhabitants.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,"The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed,And her high gates will be set on fire;So the peoples will toil for nothing,And the nations become weary only for fire."

So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.