Isaiah 14:18-20, Isaiah 21:2-9, Jeremiah 50:29-35, Jeremiah 51:57 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

Isaiah 14:18-20

All the kings of the nations lie in glory,

Each in his own ¹place.

But you have been ^acast out of your grave

Like an abhorred branch,

¹Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the ^bpit

Like a ^ctrampled corpse.

You will not be united with them in burial,

Because you have ruined your country,

You have killed your people.

May the ^aseed of evildoers not be called upon forever.

Isaiah 21:2-9

A ^aharsh vision has been declared to me;

The ^btreacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys.

Go up, ^cElam, lay siege, Media;

I have made an end of all ¹the groaning she has caused.

For this reason my ^aloins are full of anguish;

Pains have seized me like the pains of a ^bwoman in labor.

I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

My heart ¹reels; ²horror terrorizes me;

The twilight I longed for has been ^aturned for me into trembling.

They ^aset the table, they ¹spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;

“Rise up, commanders, oil the shields,”

6 For thus the Lord says to me,

“Go, station the lookout, let him ^adeclare what he sees.

Indeed, he shall see ^ariders, horsemen in pairs,

Riders of donkeys, riders of camels,

So let him pay close attention, very close attention.”

8 Then ¹the lookout called,

“^aO Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower,

And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”

And one answered and said, “^aFallen, fallen is Babylon;

And all the ^bgraven images of her gods ¹are shattered on the ground.”

Jeremiah 50:29-35

“Summon ¹many against Babylon,

All those who ²bend the bow:

Encamp against her on every side,

Let there be no escape³.

Repay her according to her work;

^aAccording to all that she has done, so do to her;

For she has become ^barrogant against Yahweh,

Against the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore her ^ayoung men will fall in her open squares,

And all her men of war will be ¹^bsilenced in that day,” declares Yahweh.

“Behold, ^aI am against you, O ¹arrogant one,”

Declares Lord Yahweh of hosts,

“For your day has come,

The time ²when I will punish you.

The ¹^aarrogant one will stumble and fall

With no one to raise him up;

And I will ^bset fire to his cities,

And it will devour him on every side.”

33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“The sons of Israel are oppressed,

And the sons of Judah as well;

And ^aall who took them captive have held them fast;

They have refused to let them go.

Their ^aRedeemer is strong, ^bYahweh of hosts is His name;

He will vigorously ^cplead their case

So that He may ^dbring relief to ¹the earth,

But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

A ^asword against the Chaldeans,” declares Yahweh,

“And against the inhabitants of Babylon

And against her ^bofficials and her ^cwise men!

Jeremiah 51:57

“I will ^amake her princes and her wise men drunk,

Her governors, her prefects, and her mighty men,

That they may sleep a ^bperpetual sleep and not wake up,”

^cDeclares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.