Bible Reading for August 27

Bible Reading for August 27

Jeremiah Chapter 51

1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and 
against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a 
destroying wind;

2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall 
empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her 
round about.

3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him 
that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young 
men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that 
are thrust through in her streets.

5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD 
of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of 
Israel.

6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be 
not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S 
vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the 
earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the 
nations are mad.

8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for 
her pain, if so be she may be healed.

9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and 
let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto 
heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us 
declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up 
the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, 
to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of 
his temple.

12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, 
set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both 
devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine 
end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill 
thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout 
against thee.

15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by 
his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the 
heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the 
earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out 
of his treasures.

17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by 
the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no 
breath in them.

18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation 
they shall perish.

19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all 
things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is 
his name.

20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break 
in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and 
with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee 
will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in 
pieces the young man and the maid;

23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and 
with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; 
and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea 
all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, 
which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon 
thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt 
mountain.

26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for 
foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, 
prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms 
of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause 
the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the 
captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his 
dominion.

29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD 
shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a 
desolation without an inhabitant.

30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained 
in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have 
burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet 
another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned 
with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of 
Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little 
while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed 
me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a 
dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the 
inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, 
shall Jerusalem say.

36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and 
take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs 
dry.

37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an 
astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, 
that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith 
the LORD.

40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he 
goats.

41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth 
surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of 
the waves thereof.

43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land 
wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his 
mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow 
together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man 
his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be 
heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in 
another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler 
against ruler.

47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the 
graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and 
all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing 
for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith 
the LORD.

49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon 
shall fall the slain of all the earth.

50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go 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 hath covered 
our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do 
judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded 
shall groan.

53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should 
fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto 
her, saith the LORD.

54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the 
land of the Chaldeans:

55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the 
great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their 
voice is uttered:

56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her 
mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD 
God of recompences shall surely requite.

57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, 
and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual 
sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be 
utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the 
people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be 
weary.

59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of 
Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of 
Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was 
a quiet prince.

60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon 
Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt 
see, and shalt read all these words;

62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to 
cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but 
that it shall be desolate for ever.

63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, 
that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from 
the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far 
are the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah Chapter 52

1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he 
reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the 
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to 
all that Jehoiakim had done.

3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and 
Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah 
rebelled against the king of Babylon.

4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth 
month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of 
Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched 
against it, and built forts against it round about.

5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was 
sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went 
forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two 
walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the 
city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook 
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon 
to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he 
slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound 
him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till 
the day of his death.

12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the 
nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, 
captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the 
houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with 
fire:

14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the 
guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive 
certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that 
remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of 
Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of 
the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the 
bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the 
Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, 
and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, 
took they away.

19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, 
and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of 
gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain 
of the guard away.

20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the 
bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass 
of all these vessels was without weight.

21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen 
cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness 
thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter 
was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round 
about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were 
like unto these.

23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the 
pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and 
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the 
men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, 
which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who 
mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the 
land, that were found in the midst of the city.

26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them 
to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah 
in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his 
own land.

28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the 
seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from 
Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the 
captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred 
forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity 
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and 
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the 
first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, 
and brought him forth out of prison,

32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the 
kings that were with him in Babylon,

33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread 
before him all the days of his life.

34 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of 
Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of 
his life.

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