Daniel 5:26 讲解是这样：弥尼，就是　神已经数算你国的年日到此完毕。

5:26 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 讲解是这样：弥尼，就是　神已经数算你国的年日到此完毕。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 解释是这样：弥尼就是上帝数算你国的年日到此完毕。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 解释是这样：弥尼就是　神数算你国的年日到此完毕。
当代译本 - 这些字的意思是这样，弥尼指上帝已经数算你国度的年日，使之到此为止；
圣经新译本 - 这文字的意思是这样：‘弥尼’就是　神已数算了你国度的年日，使国终止；
中文标准译本 - 这句话的释义是这样的：‘弥尼’就是神已经数算了你国的年日，使它终结了；
现代标点和合本 - 讲解是这样：弥尼，就是神已经数算你国的年日到此完毕。
和合本（拼音版） - 讲解是这样：弥尼，就是上帝已经数算你国的年日到此完毕；
New International Version - “Here is what these words mean: Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
New International Reader's Version - “And here is what these words mean. “The word Mene means that God has limited the time of your rule. He has brought it to an end.
English Standard Version - This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
New Living Translation - This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
Christian Standard Bible - This is the interpretation of the message: ‘Mene’ means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.
New American Standard Bible - This is the interpretation of the message: ‘Menē’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.
New King James Version - This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;
Amplified Bible - This is the interpretation of the message: ‘mene’—God has numbered the days of your kingdom and put an end to it;
American Standard Version - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.
King James Version - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
New English Translation - This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.
World English Bible - “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
新標點和合本 - 講解是這樣：彌尼，就是神已經數算你國的年日到此完畢。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 解釋是這樣：彌尼就是上帝數算你國的年日到此完畢。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 解釋是這樣：彌尼就是　神數算你國的年日到此完畢。
當代譯本 - 這些字的意思是這樣，彌尼指上帝已經數算你國度的年日，使之到此為止；
聖經新譯本 - 這文字的意思是這樣：‘彌尼’就是　神已數算了你國度的年日，使國終止；
呂振中譯本 - 『這話的解析是這樣：「彌尼」即是：「上帝已經數算了你執掌國政的年日，使它終止」；
中文標準譯本 - 這句話的釋義是這樣的：『彌尼』就是神已經數算了你國的年日，使它終結了；
現代標點和合本 - 講解是這樣：彌尼，就是神已經數算你國的年日到此完畢。
文理和合譯本 - 其解曰、彌尼者、上帝數爾國祚、使之永終也、
文理委辦譯本 - 咪呢即數之之義、上帝數爾國祚、使爾永終、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 其解如斯、彌尼者、言天主數爾國年、至此乃終、
Nueva Versión Internacional - »Pues bien, esto es lo que significan esas palabras: »Mene: Dios ha contado los días del reino de Su Majestad, y les ha puesto un límite.
현대인의 성경 - 그 뜻을 해석하면 메네는 ‘수를 센다’ 는 말인데 이것은 왕이 통치하는 날수를 하나님이 세어서 이미 그것을 끝나게 하셨다는 것을 가리킵니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Вот смысл этих слов: МЕНЕ – Бог исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
Восточный перевод - Вот смысл этих слов: Мене – Всевышний исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Вот смысл этих слов: Мене – Аллах исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Вот смысл этих слов: Мене – Всевышний исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et voici l’interprétation : « une mine » : Dieu a « compté » les années de ton règne et les a menées à leur terme.
リビングバイブル - 意味はこうです。『メネ』は、数えられたという意味で、神が王の治世の日数を数えて、その日がもう尽きたということです。
Nova Versão Internacional - “E este é o significado dessas palavras: “Mene : Deus contou os dias do teu reinado e determinou o seu fim.
Hoffnung für alle - ›Gezählt‹ bedeutet: Die Tage deiner Herrschaft sind gezählt, Gott setzt ihnen ein Ende!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Và đây là ý nghĩa: MÊ-NÊ nghĩa là ‘đếm’—Đức Chúa Trời đã đếm các ngày vua trị vì và chấm dứt các ngày đó.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ความหมายนั้นก็คือ เมเน หมายความว่า พระเจ้าได้ทรงนับวันเวลาแห่งรัชกาลของฝ่าพระบาทไว้และนำมาถึงจุดจบ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ตีความหมายดังนี้คือ มเน พระเจ้าได้กำหนดวันของอาณาจักรของท่าน และก็สุดสิ้นลงแล้ว

交叉引用

Isaiah 13:1 - The Message on Babylon. Isaiah son of Amoz saw it:
Isaiah 13:2 - “Run up a flag on an open hill. Yell loud. Get their attention. Wave them into formation. Direct them to the nerve center of power. I’ve taken charge of my special forces, called up my crack troops. They’re bursting with pride and passion to carry out my angry judgment.”
Isaiah 13:4 - Thunder rolls off the mountains like a mob huge and noisy— Thunder of kingdoms in an uproar, nations assembling for war. God-of-the-Angel-Armies is calling his army into battle formation. They come from far-off countries, they pour in across the horizon. It’s God on the move with the weapons of his wrath, ready to destroy the whole country.
Isaiah 13:6 - Wail! God’s Day of Judgment is near— an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! Everyone paralyzed in the panic, hysterical and unstrung, Doubled up in pain like a woman giving birth to a baby. Horrified—everyone they see is like a face out of a nightmare. * * *
Isaiah 13:9 - “Watch now. God’s Judgment Day comes. Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, A day to waste the earth and clean out all the sinners. The stars in the sky, the great parade of constellations, will be nothing but black holes. The sun will come up as a black disk, and the moon a blank nothing. I’ll put a full stop to the evil on earth, terminate the dark acts of the wicked. I’ll gag all braggarts and boasters—not a peep anymore from them— and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces. Proud humanity will disappear from the earth. I’ll make mortals rarer than hens’ teeth. And yes, I’ll even make the sky shake, and the earth quake to its roots Under the wrath of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the Judgment Day of his raging anger. Like a hunted white-tailed deer, like lost sheep with no shepherd, People will huddle with a few of their own kind, run off to some makeshift shelter. But tough luck to stragglers—they’ll be killed on the spot, throats cut, bellies ripped open, Babies smashed on the rocks while mothers and fathers watch, Houses looted, wives raped.
Isaiah 47:1 - “Get off your high horse and sit in the dirt, virgin daughter of Babylon. No more throne for you—sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. Nobody will be calling you ‘charming’ and ‘alluring’ anymore. Get used to it. Get a job, any old job: Clean gutters, scrub toilets. Pawn your gowns and scarves, put on your working pants—the party’s over. Your nude body will be on public display, exposed to vulgar taunts. It’s vengeance time, and I’m taking vengeance. No one gets let off the hook.”
Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer speaks, named God-of-the-Angel-Armies, The Holy of Israel: “Shut up and get out of the way, daughter of Chaldeans. You’ll no longer be called ‘First Lady of the Kingdoms.’ I was fed up with my people, thoroughly disgusted with my progeny. I turned them over to you, but you had no compassion. You put old men and women to cruel, hard labor. You said, ‘I’m the First Lady. I’ll always be the pampered darling.’ You took nothing seriously, took nothing to heart, never gave tomorrow a thought. Well, start thinking, party girl. You’re acting like the center of the universe, Smugly saying to yourself, ‘I’m Number One. There’s nobody but me. I’ll never be a widow, I’ll never lose my children.’ Those two things are going to hit you both at once, suddenly, on the same day: Spouse and children gone, a total loss, despite your many enchantments and charms. You were so confident and comfortable in your evil life, saying, ‘No one sees me.’ You thought you knew so much, had everything figured out. What delusion! Smugly telling yourself, ‘I’m Number One. There’s nobody but me.’ Ruin descends— you can’t charm it away. Disaster strikes— you can’t cast it off with spells. Catastrophe, sudden and total— and you’re totally at sea, totally bewildered! But don’t give up. From your great repertoire of enchantments there must be one you haven’t yet tried. You’ve been at this a long time. Surely something will work. I know you’re exhausted trying out remedies, but don’t give up. Call in the astrologers and stargazers. They’re good at this. Surely they can work up something!
Isaiah 47:14 - “Fat chance. You’d be grasping at straws that are already in the fire, A fire that is even now raging. Your ‘experts’ are in it and won’t get out. It’s not a fire for cooking venison stew, not a fire to warm you on a winter night! That’s the fate of your friends in sorcery, your magician cronies you’ve been colluding with all your life. They reel, confused, bumping into one another. None of them bother to help you.”
Isaiah 21:1 - A Message concerning the desert at the sea: As tempests drive through the Negev Desert, coming out of the desert, that terror-filled place, A hard vision is given me: The betrayer betrayed, the plunderer plundered. Attack, Elam! Lay siege, Media! Persians, attack! Attack, Babylon! I’ll put an end to all the moaning and groaning. Because of this news I’m doubled up in pain, writhing in pain like a woman having a baby, Baffled by what I hear, undone by what I see. Absolutely stunned, horror-stricken, I had hoped for a relaxed evening, but it has turned into a nightmare.
Isaiah 21:5 - The banquet is spread, the guests reclining in luxurious ease, Eating and drinking, having a good time, and then, “To arms, princes! The fight is on!”
Isaiah 21:6 - The Master told me, “Go, post a lookout. Have him report whatever he spots. When he sees horses and wagons in battle formation, lines of donkeys and columns of camels, Tell him to keep his ear to the ground, note every whisper, every rumor.” Just then, the lookout shouted, “I’m at my post, Master, Sticking to my post day after day and all through the night! I watched them come, the horses and wagons in battle formation. I heard them call out the war news in headlines: ‘Babylon fallen! Fallen! And all its precious god-idols smashed to pieces on the ground.’”
Isaiah 21:10 - Dear Israel, you’ve been through a lot, you’ve been put through the mill. The good news I get from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, I now pass on to you. * * *
Jeremiah 25:12 - “Once the seventy years is up, I’ll punish the king of Babylon and the whole nation of Babylon for their sin. Then they’ll be the wasteland. Everything that I said I’d do to that country, I’ll do—everything that’s written in this book, everything Jeremiah preached against all the godless nations. Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the Babylonians, paying them back for everything they’ve done to others. They won’t get by with anything.” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 50:1 - The Message of God through the prophet Jeremiah on Babylon, land of the Chaldeans: “Get the word out to the nations! Preach it! Go public with this, broadcast it far and wide: Babylon taken, god-Bel hanging his head in shame, god-Marduk exposed as a fraud. All her god-idols shuffling in shame, all her play-gods exposed as cheap frauds. For a nation will come out of the north to attack her, reduce her cities to rubble. Empty of life—no animals, no people— not a sound, not a movement, not a breath.
Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those days, at that time”—God’s Decree— “the people of Israel will come, And the people of Judah with them. Walking and weeping, they’ll seek me, their God. They’ll ask directions to Zion and set their faces toward Zion. They’ll come and hold tight to God, bound in a covenant eternal they’ll never forget.
Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people were lost sheep. Their shepherds led them astray. They abandoned them in the mountains where they wandered aimless through the hills. They lost track of home, couldn’t remember where they came from. Everyone who met them took advantage of them. Their enemies had no qualms: ‘Fair game,’ they said. ‘They walked out on God. They abandoned the True Pasture, the hope of their parents.’
Jeremiah 50:8 - “But now, get out of Babylon as fast as you can. Be rid of that Babylonian country. On your way. Good sheepdogs lead, but don’t you be led. Lead the way home! Do you see what I’m doing? I’m rallying a host of nations against Babylon. They’ll come out of the north, attack and take her. Oh, they know how to fight, these armies. They never come home empty-handed. Babylon is ripe for picking! All her plunderers will fill their bellies!” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 50:11 - “You Babylonians had a good time while it lasted, didn’t you? You lived it up, exploiting and using my people, Frisky calves romping in lush pastures, wild stallions out having a good time! Well, your mother would hardly be proud of you. The woman who bore you wouldn’t be pleased. Look at what’s come of you! A nothing nation! Rubble and garbage and weeds! Emptied of life by my holy anger, a desert of death and emptiness. Travelers who pass by Babylon will gasp, appalled, shaking their heads at such a comedown. Gang up on Babylon! Pin her down! Throw everything you have against her. Hold nothing back. Knock her flat. She’s sinned—oh, how she’s sinned, against me! Shout battle cries from every direction. All the fight has gone out of her. Her defenses have been flattened, her walls smashed. ‘Operation God’s Vengeance.’ Pile on the vengeance! Do to her as she has done. Give her a good dose of her own medicine! Destroy her farms and farmers, ravage her fields, empty her barns. And you captives, while the destruction rages, get out while the getting’s good, get out fast and run for home. * * *
Jeremiah 50:17 - “Israel is a scattered flock, hunted down by lions. The king of Assyria started the carnage. The king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, Has completed the job, gnawing the bones clean.”
Jeremiah 50:18 - And now this is what God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, has to say: “Just watch! I’m bringing doom on the king of Babylon and his land, the same doom I brought on the king of Assyria. But Israel I’ll bring home to good pastures. He’ll graze on the hills of Carmel and Bashan, On the slopes of Ephraim and Gilead. He will eat to his heart’s content. In those days and at that time”—God’s Decree— “they’ll look high and low for a sign of Israel’s guilt—nothing; Search nook and cranny for a trace of Judah’s sin—nothing. These people that I’ve saved will start out with a clean slate. * * *
Jeremiah 50:21 - “Attack Merathaim, land of rebels! Go after Pekod, country of doom! Hunt them down. Make a clean sweep.” God’s Decree. “These are my orders. Do what I tell you.
Jeremiah 50:22 - “The thunderclap of battle shakes the foundations! The Hammer has been hammered, smashed and splintered, Babylon pummeled beyond recognition. I set out a trap and you were caught in it. O Babylon, you never knew what hit you, Caught and held in the steel grip of that trap! That’s what you get for taking on God.
Jeremiah 50:25 - “I, God, opened my arsenal. I brought out my weapons of wrath. The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, has a job to do in Babylon. Come at her from all sides! Break into her granaries! Shovel her into piles and burn her up. Leave nothing! Leave no one! Kill all her young turks. Send them to their doom! Doom to them! Yes, Doomsday! The clock has finally run out on them. And here’s a surprise: Runaways and escapees from Babylon Show up in Zion reporting the news of God’s vengeance, taking vengeance for my own Temple.
Jeremiah 50:29 - “Call in the troops against Babylon, anyone who can shoot straight! Tighten the noose! Leave no loopholes! Give her back as good as she gave, a dose of her own medicine! Her brazen insolence is an outrage against God, The Holy of Israel. And now she pays: her young strewn dead in the streets, her soldiers dead, silent forever.” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 50:31 - “Do you get it, Mister Pride? I’m your enemy!” Decree of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies. “Time’s run out on you: That’s right: It’s Doomsday. Mister Pride will fall flat on his face. No one will offer him a hand. I’ll set his towns on fire. The fire will spread wild through the country.” * * *
Jeremiah 50:33 - And here’s more from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “The people of Israel are beaten down, the people of Judah along with them. Their oppressors have them in a grip of steel. They won’t let go. But the Rescuer is strong: God-of-the-Angel-Armies. Yes, I will take their side, I’ll come to their rescue. I’ll soothe their land, but rough up the people of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:35 - “It’s all-out war in Babylon”—God’s Decree— “total war against people, leaders, and the wise! War to the death on her boasting pretenders, fools one and all! War to the death on her soldiers, cowards to a man! War to the death on her hired killers, gutless wonders! War to the death on her banks—looted! War to the death on her water supply—drained dry! A land of make-believe gods gone crazy—hobgoblins! The place will be haunted with jackals and scorpions, night-owls and vampire bats. No one will ever live there again. The land will reek with the stench of death. It will join Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, the cities I did away with.” God’s Decree. “No one will live there again. No one will again draw breath in that land, ever. * * *
Jeremiah 50:41 - “And now, watch this! People pouring out of the north, hordes of people, A mob of kings stirred up from far-off places. Flourishing deadly weapons, barbarians they are, cruel and pitiless. Roaring and relentless, like ocean breakers, they come riding fierce stallions, In battle formation, ready to fight you, Daughter Babylon! Babylon’s king hears them coming. He goes white as a ghost, limp as a dishrag. Terror-stricken, he doubles up in pain, helpless to fight, like a woman giving birth to a baby.
Jeremiah 50:44 - “And now watch this: Like a lion coming up from the thick jungle of the Jordan, Looking for prey in the mountain pastures, I’ll take over and pounce. I’ll take my pick of the flock—and who’s to stop me? All the so-called shepherds are helpless before me.”
Jeremiah 50:45 - So, listen to this plan that God has worked out against Babylon, the blueprint of what he’s prepared for dealing with Chaldea: Believe it or not, the young, the vulnerable—mere lambs and kids—will be dragged off. Believe it or not, the flock in shock, helpless to help, watches it happen. When the shout goes up, “Babylon’s down!” the very earth will shudder at the sound. The news will be heard all over the world.

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 讲解是这样：弥尼，就是　神已经数算你国的年日到此完毕。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 解释是这样：弥尼就是上帝数算你国的年日到此完毕。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 解释是这样：弥尼就是　神数算你国的年日到此完毕。
当代译本 - 这些字的意思是这样，弥尼指上帝已经数算你国度的年日，使之到此为止；
圣经新译本 - 这文字的意思是这样：‘弥尼’就是　神已数算了你国度的年日，使国终止；
中文标准译本 - 这句话的释义是这样的：‘弥尼’就是神已经数算了你国的年日，使它终结了；
现代标点和合本 - 讲解是这样：弥尼，就是神已经数算你国的年日到此完毕。
和合本（拼音版） - 讲解是这样：弥尼，就是上帝已经数算你国的年日到此完毕；
New International Version - “Here is what these words mean: Mene : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
New International Reader's Version - “And here is what these words mean. “The word Mene means that God has limited the time of your rule. He has brought it to an end.
English Standard Version - This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;
New Living Translation - This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
Christian Standard Bible - This is the interpretation of the message: ‘Mene’ means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.
New American Standard Bible - This is the interpretation of the message: ‘Menē’—God has numbered your kingdom and put an end to it.
New King James Version - This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it;
Amplified Bible - This is the interpretation of the message: ‘mene’—God has numbered the days of your kingdom and put an end to it;
American Standard Version - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end.
King James Version - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
New English Translation - This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.
World English Bible - “This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE: God has counted your kingdom, and brought it to an end.
新標點和合本 - 講解是這樣：彌尼，就是神已經數算你國的年日到此完畢。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 解釋是這樣：彌尼就是上帝數算你國的年日到此完畢。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 解釋是這樣：彌尼就是　神數算你國的年日到此完畢。
當代譯本 - 這些字的意思是這樣，彌尼指上帝已經數算你國度的年日，使之到此為止；
聖經新譯本 - 這文字的意思是這樣：‘彌尼’就是　神已數算了你國度的年日，使國終止；
呂振中譯本 - 『這話的解析是這樣：「彌尼」即是：「上帝已經數算了你執掌國政的年日，使它終止」；
中文標準譯本 - 這句話的釋義是這樣的：『彌尼』就是神已經數算了你國的年日，使它終結了；
現代標點和合本 - 講解是這樣：彌尼，就是神已經數算你國的年日到此完畢。
文理和合譯本 - 其解曰、彌尼者、上帝數爾國祚、使之永終也、
文理委辦譯本 - 咪呢即數之之義、上帝數爾國祚、使爾永終、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 其解如斯、彌尼者、言天主數爾國年、至此乃終、
Nueva Versión Internacional - »Pues bien, esto es lo que significan esas palabras: »Mene: Dios ha contado los días del reino de Su Majestad, y les ha puesto un límite.
현대인의 성경 - 그 뜻을 해석하면 메네는 ‘수를 센다’ 는 말인데 이것은 왕이 통치하는 날수를 하나님이 세어서 이미 그것을 끝나게 하셨다는 것을 가리킵니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Вот смысл этих слов: МЕНЕ – Бог исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
Восточный перевод - Вот смысл этих слов: Мене – Всевышний исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Вот смысл этих слов: Мене – Аллах исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Вот смысл этих слов: Мене – Всевышний исчислил дни твоего царствования и положил ему конец.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et voici l’interprétation : « une mine » : Dieu a « compté » les années de ton règne et les a menées à leur terme.
リビングバイブル - 意味はこうです。『メネ』は、数えられたという意味で、神が王の治世の日数を数えて、その日がもう尽きたということです。
Nova Versão Internacional - “E este é o significado dessas palavras: “Mene : Deus contou os dias do teu reinado e determinou o seu fim.
Hoffnung für alle - ›Gezählt‹ bedeutet: Die Tage deiner Herrschaft sind gezählt, Gott setzt ihnen ein Ende!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Và đây là ý nghĩa: MÊ-NÊ nghĩa là ‘đếm’—Đức Chúa Trời đã đếm các ngày vua trị vì và chấm dứt các ngày đó.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ความหมายนั้นก็คือ เมเน หมายความว่า พระเจ้าได้ทรงนับวันเวลาแห่งรัชกาลของฝ่าพระบาทไว้และนำมาถึงจุดจบ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ตีความหมายดังนี้คือ มเน พระเจ้าได้กำหนดวันของอาณาจักรของท่าน และก็สุดสิ้นลงแล้ว

Isaiah 13:1 - The Message on Babylon. Isaiah son of Amoz saw it:
Isaiah 13:2 - “Run up a flag on an open hill. Yell loud. Get their attention. Wave them into formation. Direct them to the nerve center of power. I’ve taken charge of my special forces, called up my crack troops. They’re bursting with pride and passion to carry out my angry judgment.”
Isaiah 13:4 - Thunder rolls off the mountains like a mob huge and noisy— Thunder of kingdoms in an uproar, nations assembling for war. God-of-the-Angel-Armies is calling his army into battle formation. They come from far-off countries, they pour in across the horizon. It’s God on the move with the weapons of his wrath, ready to destroy the whole country.
Isaiah 13:6 - Wail! God’s Day of Judgment is near— an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! Everyone paralyzed in the panic, hysterical and unstrung, Doubled up in pain like a woman giving birth to a baby. Horrified—everyone they see is like a face out of a nightmare. * * *
Isaiah 13:9 - “Watch now. God’s Judgment Day comes. Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, A day to waste the earth and clean out all the sinners. The stars in the sky, the great parade of constellations, will be nothing but black holes. The sun will come up as a black disk, and the moon a blank nothing. I’ll put a full stop to the evil on earth, terminate the dark acts of the wicked. I’ll gag all braggarts and boasters—not a peep anymore from them— and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces. Proud humanity will disappear from the earth. I’ll make mortals rarer than hens’ teeth. And yes, I’ll even make the sky shake, and the earth quake to its roots Under the wrath of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the Judgment Day of his raging anger. Like a hunted white-tailed deer, like lost sheep with no shepherd, People will huddle with a few of their own kind, run off to some makeshift shelter. But tough luck to stragglers—they’ll be killed on the spot, throats cut, bellies ripped open, Babies smashed on the rocks while mothers and fathers watch, Houses looted, wives raped.
Isaiah 47:1 - “Get off your high horse and sit in the dirt, virgin daughter of Babylon. No more throne for you—sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. Nobody will be calling you ‘charming’ and ‘alluring’ anymore. Get used to it. Get a job, any old job: Clean gutters, scrub toilets. Pawn your gowns and scarves, put on your working pants—the party’s over. Your nude body will be on public display, exposed to vulgar taunts. It’s vengeance time, and I’m taking vengeance. No one gets let off the hook.”
Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer speaks, named God-of-the-Angel-Armies, The Holy of Israel: “Shut up and get out of the way, daughter of Chaldeans. You’ll no longer be called ‘First Lady of the Kingdoms.’ I was fed up with my people, thoroughly disgusted with my progeny. I turned them over to you, but you had no compassion. You put old men and women to cruel, hard labor. You said, ‘I’m the First Lady. I’ll always be the pampered darling.’ You took nothing seriously, took nothing to heart, never gave tomorrow a thought. Well, start thinking, party girl. You’re acting like the center of the universe, Smugly saying to yourself, ‘I’m Number One. There’s nobody but me. I’ll never be a widow, I’ll never lose my children.’ Those two things are going to hit you both at once, suddenly, on the same day: Spouse and children gone, a total loss, despite your many enchantments and charms. You were so confident and comfortable in your evil life, saying, ‘No one sees me.’ You thought you knew so much, had everything figured out. What delusion! Smugly telling yourself, ‘I’m Number One. There’s nobody but me.’ Ruin descends— you can’t charm it away. Disaster strikes— you can’t cast it off with spells. Catastrophe, sudden and total— and you’re totally at sea, totally bewildered! But don’t give up. From your great repertoire of enchantments there must be one you haven’t yet tried. You’ve been at this a long time. Surely something will work. I know you’re exhausted trying out remedies, but don’t give up. Call in the astrologers and stargazers. They’re good at this. Surely they can work up something!
Isaiah 47:14 - “Fat chance. You’d be grasping at straws that are already in the fire, A fire that is even now raging. Your ‘experts’ are in it and won’t get out. It’s not a fire for cooking venison stew, not a fire to warm you on a winter night! That’s the fate of your friends in sorcery, your magician cronies you’ve been colluding with all your life. They reel, confused, bumping into one another. None of them bother to help you.”
Isaiah 21:1 - A Message concerning the desert at the sea: As tempests drive through the Negev Desert, coming out of the desert, that terror-filled place, A hard vision is given me: The betrayer betrayed, the plunderer plundered. Attack, Elam! Lay siege, Media! Persians, attack! Attack, Babylon! I’ll put an end to all the moaning and groaning. Because of this news I’m doubled up in pain, writhing in pain like a woman having a baby, Baffled by what I hear, undone by what I see. Absolutely stunned, horror-stricken, I had hoped for a relaxed evening, but it has turned into a nightmare.
Isaiah 21:5 - The banquet is spread, the guests reclining in luxurious ease, Eating and drinking, having a good time, and then, “To arms, princes! The fight is on!”
Isaiah 21:6 - The Master told me, “Go, post a lookout. Have him report whatever he spots. When he sees horses and wagons in battle formation, lines of donkeys and columns of camels, Tell him to keep his ear to the ground, note every whisper, every rumor.” Just then, the lookout shouted, “I’m at my post, Master, Sticking to my post day after day and all through the night! I watched them come, the horses and wagons in battle formation. I heard them call out the war news in headlines: ‘Babylon fallen! Fallen! And all its precious god-idols smashed to pieces on the ground.’”
Isaiah 21:10 - Dear Israel, you’ve been through a lot, you’ve been put through the mill. The good news I get from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, I now pass on to you. * * *
Jeremiah 25:12 - “Once the seventy years is up, I’ll punish the king of Babylon and the whole nation of Babylon for their sin. Then they’ll be the wasteland. Everything that I said I’d do to that country, I’ll do—everything that’s written in this book, everything Jeremiah preached against all the godless nations. Many nations and great kings will make slaves of the Babylonians, paying them back for everything they’ve done to others. They won’t get by with anything.” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 50:1 - The Message of God through the prophet Jeremiah on Babylon, land of the Chaldeans: “Get the word out to the nations! Preach it! Go public with this, broadcast it far and wide: Babylon taken, god-Bel hanging his head in shame, god-Marduk exposed as a fraud. All her god-idols shuffling in shame, all her play-gods exposed as cheap frauds. For a nation will come out of the north to attack her, reduce her cities to rubble. Empty of life—no animals, no people— not a sound, not a movement, not a breath.
Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those days, at that time”—God’s Decree— “the people of Israel will come, And the people of Judah with them. Walking and weeping, they’ll seek me, their God. They’ll ask directions to Zion and set their faces toward Zion. They’ll come and hold tight to God, bound in a covenant eternal they’ll never forget.
Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people were lost sheep. Their shepherds led them astray. They abandoned them in the mountains where they wandered aimless through the hills. They lost track of home, couldn’t remember where they came from. Everyone who met them took advantage of them. Their enemies had no qualms: ‘Fair game,’ they said. ‘They walked out on God. They abandoned the True Pasture, the hope of their parents.’
Jeremiah 50:8 - “But now, get out of Babylon as fast as you can. Be rid of that Babylonian country. On your way. Good sheepdogs lead, but don’t you be led. Lead the way home! Do you see what I’m doing? I’m rallying a host of nations against Babylon. They’ll come out of the north, attack and take her. Oh, they know how to fight, these armies. They never come home empty-handed. Babylon is ripe for picking! All her plunderers will fill their bellies!” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 50:11 - “You Babylonians had a good time while it lasted, didn’t you? You lived it up, exploiting and using my people, Frisky calves romping in lush pastures, wild stallions out having a good time! Well, your mother would hardly be proud of you. The woman who bore you wouldn’t be pleased. Look at what’s come of you! A nothing nation! Rubble and garbage and weeds! Emptied of life by my holy anger, a desert of death and emptiness. Travelers who pass by Babylon will gasp, appalled, shaking their heads at such a comedown. Gang up on Babylon! Pin her down! Throw everything you have against her. Hold nothing back. Knock her flat. She’s sinned—oh, how she’s sinned, against me! Shout battle cries from every direction. All the fight has gone out of her. Her defenses have been flattened, her walls smashed. ‘Operation God’s Vengeance.’ Pile on the vengeance! Do to her as she has done. Give her a good dose of her own medicine! Destroy her farms and farmers, ravage her fields, empty her barns. And you captives, while the destruction rages, get out while the getting’s good, get out fast and run for home. * * *
Jeremiah 50:17 - “Israel is a scattered flock, hunted down by lions. The king of Assyria started the carnage. The king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, Has completed the job, gnawing the bones clean.”
Jeremiah 50:18 - And now this is what God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, has to say: “Just watch! I’m bringing doom on the king of Babylon and his land, the same doom I brought on the king of Assyria. But Israel I’ll bring home to good pastures. He’ll graze on the hills of Carmel and Bashan, On the slopes of Ephraim and Gilead. He will eat to his heart’s content. In those days and at that time”—God’s Decree— “they’ll look high and low for a sign of Israel’s guilt—nothing; Search nook and cranny for a trace of Judah’s sin—nothing. These people that I’ve saved will start out with a clean slate. * * *
Jeremiah 50:21 - “Attack Merathaim, land of rebels! Go after Pekod, country of doom! Hunt them down. Make a clean sweep.” God’s Decree. “These are my orders. Do what I tell you.
Jeremiah 50:22 - “The thunderclap of battle shakes the foundations! The Hammer has been hammered, smashed and splintered, Babylon pummeled beyond recognition. I set out a trap and you were caught in it. O Babylon, you never knew what hit you, Caught and held in the steel grip of that trap! That’s what you get for taking on God.
Jeremiah 50:25 - “I, God, opened my arsenal. I brought out my weapons of wrath. The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, has a job to do in Babylon. Come at her from all sides! Break into her granaries! Shovel her into piles and burn her up. Leave nothing! Leave no one! Kill all her young turks. Send them to their doom! Doom to them! Yes, Doomsday! The clock has finally run out on them. And here’s a surprise: Runaways and escapees from Babylon Show up in Zion reporting the news of God’s vengeance, taking vengeance for my own Temple.
Jeremiah 50:29 - “Call in the troops against Babylon, anyone who can shoot straight! Tighten the noose! Leave no loopholes! Give her back as good as she gave, a dose of her own medicine! Her brazen insolence is an outrage against God, The Holy of Israel. And now she pays: her young strewn dead in the streets, her soldiers dead, silent forever.” God’s Decree.
Jeremiah 50:31 - “Do you get it, Mister Pride? I’m your enemy!” Decree of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies. “Time’s run out on you: That’s right: It’s Doomsday. Mister Pride will fall flat on his face. No one will offer him a hand. I’ll set his towns on fire. The fire will spread wild through the country.” * * *
Jeremiah 50:33 - And here’s more from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “The people of Israel are beaten down, the people of Judah along with them. Their oppressors have them in a grip of steel. They won’t let go. But the Rescuer is strong: God-of-the-Angel-Armies. Yes, I will take their side, I’ll come to their rescue. I’ll soothe their land, but rough up the people of Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:35 - “It’s all-out war in Babylon”—God’s Decree— “total war against people, leaders, and the wise! War to the death on her boasting pretenders, fools one and all! War to the death on her soldiers, cowards to a man! War to the death on her hired killers, gutless wonders! War to the death on her banks—looted! War to the death on her water supply—drained dry! A land of make-believe gods gone crazy—hobgoblins! The place will be haunted with jackals and scorpions, night-owls and vampire bats. No one will ever live there again. The land will reek with the stench of death. It will join Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, the cities I did away with.” God’s Decree. “No one will live there again. No one will again draw breath in that land, ever. * * *
Jeremiah 50:41 - “And now, watch this! People pouring out of the north, hordes of people, A mob of kings stirred up from far-off places. Flourishing deadly weapons, barbarians they are, cruel and pitiless. Roaring and relentless, like ocean breakers, they come riding fierce stallions, In battle formation, ready to fight you, Daughter Babylon! Babylon’s king hears them coming. He goes white as a ghost, limp as a dishrag. Terror-stricken, he doubles up in pain, helpless to fight, like a woman giving birth to a baby.
Jeremiah 50:44 - “And now watch this: Like a lion coming up from the thick jungle of the Jordan, Looking for prey in the mountain pastures, I’ll take over and pounce. I’ll take my pick of the flock—and who’s to stop me? All the so-called shepherds are helpless before me.”
Jeremiah 50:45 - So, listen to this plan that God has worked out against Babylon, the blueprint of what he’s prepared for dealing with Chaldea: Believe it or not, the young, the vulnerable—mere lambs and kids—will be dragged off. Believe it or not, the flock in shock, helpless to help, watches it happen. When the shout goes up, “Babylon’s down!” the very earth will shudder at the sound. The news will be heard all over the world.