H9002–/וְ–v

Prepare nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their dominion.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֵ֖ת (וְ) ve. “and”

Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end;

וּמַגִּ֖יד (וּ) u. “and”

and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

וְהַמַּעְבָּר֣וֹת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַנְשֵׁ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וּשְׁאֵרִי֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְדָמִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.

וַעֲרָבָ֑ה (וַ) va. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Go ye out of the midst of her, my people, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah!

וּמַלְּט֖וּ (וּ) u. “and”

lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; for a rumour shall come [supplied: one] year, and after that a rumour in [supplied: another] year, and violence in the earth, ruler against ruler.

וּפֶן־ (וּ) u. “and”וְתִֽירְא֔וּ (וְ) ve. “so”וְאַחֲרָ֤יו (וְ) ve. “and”וְחָמָ֣ס (וְ) ve. “and”וּמֹשֵׁ֖ל (וּ) u. “and”

Therefore behold, days are coming when I will punish the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall shout aloud over Babylon; for out of the north the spoilers shall come against her, saith Jehovah.

וָאָ֔רֶץ (וָ) va. “and”וְכֹ֖ל (וְ) ve. “and”

Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

וִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֖ם (וִ) vi. “and”

-- Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish her graven images; and throughout her land the wounded shall groan.

וּבְכָל־ (וּ) u. “and”

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

וְכִ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

The sound of a cry [supplied: cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;

וְשֶׁ֥בֶר (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וַחֲכָמֶ֜יהָ (וַ) va. “and”וּסְגָנֶ֙יהָ֙ (וּ) u. “and”וְגִבּוֹרֶ֔יהָ (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and the nations for the fire: and they shall be weary.

וּשְׁעָרֶ֥יהָ (וּ) u. “and”וְיִֽגְע֨וּ (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְאֻמִּ֥ים (וּ) u. “and”

The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Nerijah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.

וּשְׂרָיָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

and say, Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, that thou wilt cut it off, so that none shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise, because of the evil that I will bring upon it: and they shall be weary. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.

וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְאַחַ֤ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְאַחַ֤ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְשֵׁ֣ם (וְ) ve. “and”

For, because the anger of Jehovah was against Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

וִֽיהוּדָ֔ה (וִֽ) vi. “and”

And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [supplied: that] Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem; and they encamped against it, and built turrets against it round about.

וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”