¹The word that the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] [and] against the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] by Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed] the prophet.

²Declare you2f among the nations, and publish, and set up a Flag (banner) ; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] is taken, Bel [lord] is shamed, M’rodakh [your rebellion] is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

³For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell in it: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

⁴In those days, and in that time, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall come, they and the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] .

⁵They shall ask the way to Tziyon [parched place] with their faces toward it, [saying] , Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in a perpetual covenant [that] shall not be forgotten.

⁶My people has been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away [on] the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

⁷All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend (make angry; make one stumble; violate) not, because they have sinned against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , the habitation of justice, even the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , the hope of their fathers.

⁸Remove out of the midst of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] , and go forth out of the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] , and be as the he goats before the flocks.

⁹For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array (to put on; to clothe) against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

¹⁰And Kasdim [clod-breakers] shall be a spoil (plunder; prey; booty) : all that spoil (plunder; prey; booty) her shall be satisfied, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

¹¹Because you2f were glad, because you2f rejoiced, O you2f destroyers of my heritage, because you2f are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

¹²Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bore you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

¹³Because of the wrath of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: everyone that goes by Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

¹⁴Put yourselves in array (to put on; to clothe) against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] round about: all you2f that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

¹⁵Shout against her round about: she has given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it [is] the vengeance of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) : take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.

¹⁶Cut off the sower from Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] , and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

¹⁷Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) has devoured him; and last this N’vukhadretzar [may Nebo protect the crown] king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has broken his bones.

¹⁸Therefore thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] , the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ; Behold, I will punish the king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] and his land, as I have punished the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) .

¹⁹And I will bring Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel [Garden-land] and Bashan [Fruitful] , and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] and Gil’ad [Rocky Region] .

²⁰In those days, and in that time, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , the iniquity of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall be sought for, and [there shall be] none; and the sins of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

²¹Go up against the land of Meratayim [double rebellion] , [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of P’kod [visitation] : waste and utterly destroy after them, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and do according to all that I have commanded youi .

²²A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.

²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] become a desolation among the nations!

²⁴I have laid a snare for youi , and youi are also taken, O Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] , and youi were not aware: youi are found, and also caught, because youi have striven against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

²⁵The Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has opened his armoury, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this [is] the work of the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] in the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] .

²⁶Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

²⁷Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

²⁸The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] , to declare in Tziyon [parched place] the vengeance of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , the vengeance of his temple.

²⁹Call to (to do entirely, do wholly) gether the archers against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] : all you2f that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , against the Holy One of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

³⁰Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

³¹Behold, I [am] against youi , [O you ] most proud, says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] : for youi day is come, the time [that] I will visit youi .

³²And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

³³Thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] ; The people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [were] oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

³⁴Their Redeemer [is] strong; the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] [is] his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] .

³⁵A sword [is] upon the Kasdim [clod-breakers] , says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and upon the inhabitants of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] , and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men] .

³⁶A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

³⁷A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

³⁸A drought [is] upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it [is] the land of graven images, and they are mad upon [their] idols.

³⁹Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there] , and the owls shall dwell in it: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

⁴⁰As God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] overthrew S’dom [Burning] and ‘Amora [Submersion] and the neighbour [cities] thereof, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any Son of man dwell in it.

⁴¹Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

⁴²They shall hold the bow and the lance: they [are] cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, [everyone] put in array (to put on; to clothe) , like a man to the battle, against youi , O daughter of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] .

⁴³The king of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, [and] pangs (extreme sharp pains) as of a woman in travail.

⁴⁴Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Yarden [Descender] unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who [is] a chosen [man, that] I may appoint over her? for who [is] like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who [is] that shepherd that will stand before me?

⁴⁵Therefore hear you2f the counsel of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , that he has taken against Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] ; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Kasdim [clod-breakers] : Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make [their] habitation desolate with them.

⁴⁶At the noise of the taking of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion] the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.