λόγος κυρίου ὃν ἐλάλησεν ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα
The word that the Lord spoke against Babylon.
Word-by-word analysis· 6 words
ἀναγγείλατε ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν καὶ ἀκουστὰ ποιήσατε καὶ μὴ κρύψητε εἴπατε ἑάλωκεν Βαβυλών κατῃσχύνθη Βῆλος ἡ ἀπτόητος ἡ τρυφερὰ παρεδόθη Μαρωδαχ
Declare it among the nations and make it heard; do not hide it. Say, Babylon has been taken, Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been handed over, the fearless and pampered one disgraced.
Word-by-word analysis· 21 words
ὅτι ἀνέβη ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἔθνος ἀπὸ βορρᾶ οὗτος θήσει τὴν γῆν αὐτῆς εἰς ἀφανισμόν καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν αὐτῇ ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου καὶ ἕως κτήνους
For a nation has come up against her from the north; it will make her land a desolation, and there shall be no inhabitant in it, from man even to beast.
Word-by-word analysis· 26 words
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις καὶ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ἥξουσιν οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ αὐτοὶ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Ιουδα ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό βαδίζοντες καὶ κλαίοντες πορεύσονται τὸν κύριον θεὸν αὐτῶν ζητοῦντες
In those days and at that time the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; weeping as they go, they will seek the Lord their God.
Word-by-word analysis· 30 words
ἕως Σιων ἐρωτήσουσιν τὴν ὁδόν ὧδε γὰρ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν δώσουσιν καὶ ἥξουσιν καὶ καταφεύξονται πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεόν διαθήκη γὰρ αἰώνιος οὐκ ἐπιλησθήσεται
They will ask the way to Zion, for there they will set their faces and come and flee to the Lord God; for an everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
Word-by-word analysis· 24 words
πρόβατα ἀπολωλότα ἐγενήθη ὁ λαός μου οἱ ποιμένες αὐτῶν ἐξῶσαν αὐτούς ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη ἀπεπλάνησαν αὐτούς ἐξ ὄρους ἐπὶ βουνὸν ᾤχοντο ἐπελάθοντο κοίτης αὐτῶν
My people became lost sheep. Their shepherds drove them out onto the mountains; they led them astray from mountain to hill, and they forgot their resting place.
Word-by-word analysis· 24 words
πάντες οἱ εὑρίσκοντες αὐτοὺς κατανάλισκον αὐτούς οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῶν εἶπαν μὴ ἀνῶμεν αὐτούς ἀνθ' ὧν ἥμαρτον τῷ κυρίῳ νομῇ δικαιοσύνης τῷ συναγαγόντι τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν
All who found them consumed them, and their enemies said, We shall not spare them, because they sinned against the Lord, the pasture of righteousness, the one who gathered their fathers.
Word-by-word analysis· 25 words
ἀπαλλοτριώθητε ἐκ μέσου Βαβυλῶνος καὶ ἀπὸ γῆς Χαλδαίων καὶ ἐξέλθατε καὶ γένεσθε ὥσπερ δράκοντες κατὰ πρόσωπον προβάτων
Be estranged from the midst of Babylon, and go out from the land of the Chaldeans; go forth and become like leaders before the flock.
Word-by-word analysis· 17 words
ὅτι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐγείρω ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα συναγωγὰς ἐθνῶν ἐκ γῆς βορρᾶ καὶ παρατάξονται αὐτῇ ἐκεῖθεν ἁλώσεται ὡς βολὶς μαχητοῦ συνετοῦ οὐκ ἐπιστρέψει κενή
For behold, I am stirring up against Babylon assemblies of nations from the north country, and they shall array themselves against her; from there she shall be taken, like the arrow of a skillful warrior that does not return empty.
Word-by-word analysis· 23 words
καὶ ἔσται ἡ Χαλδαία εἰς προνομήν πάντες οἱ προνομεύοντες αὐτὴν ἐμπλησθήσονται
And Chaldea shall become plunder; all who plunder her shall be filled.
Word-by-word analysis· 11 words
ὅτι ηὐφραίνεσθε καὶ κατεκαυχᾶσθε διαρπάζοντες τὴν κληρονομίαν μου διότι ἐσκιρτᾶτε ὡς βοί̈δια ἐν βοτάνῃ καὶ ἐκερατίζετε ὡς ταῦροι
Because you rejoiced and boasted while plundering my inheritance, because you skipped like calves in the grass and butted like bulls,
Word-by-word analysis· 18 words
ᾐσχύνθη ἡ μήτηρ ὑμῶν σφόδρα μήτηρ ἐπ' ἀγαθὰ ἐσχάτη ἐθνῶν ἔρημος
your mother has been put to great shame; the mother who bore you is last among the nations, a wilderness.
Word-by-word analysis· 11 words
ἀπὸ ὀργῆς κυρίου οὐ κατοικηθήσεται καὶ ἔσται εἰς ἀφανισμὸν πᾶσα καὶ πᾶς ὁ διοδεύων διὰ Βαβυλῶνος σκυθρωπάσει καὶ συριοῦσιν ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν πληγὴν αὐτῆς
From the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited, but shall become wholly desolate; everyone passing through Babylon shall be appalled and hiss over all her wounds.
Word-by-word analysis· 24 words
παρατάξασθε ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα κύκλῳ πάντες τείνοντες τόξον τοξεύσατε ἐπ' αὐτήν μὴ φείσησθε ἐπὶ τοῖς τοξεύμασιν ὑμῶν
Draw yourselves up against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her and do not spare your arrows.
Word-by-word analysis· 16 words
κατακροτήσατε ἐπ' αὐτήν παρελύθησαν αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῆς ἔπεσαν αἱ ἐπάλξεις αὐτῆς καὶ κατεσκάφη τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς ὅτι ἐκδίκησις παρὰ θεοῦ ἐστιν ἐκδικεῖτε ἐπ' αὐτήν καθὼς ἐποίησεν ποιήσατε αὐτῇ
Raise a shout against her. Her hands have gone slack, her bastions have fallen, and her wall has been torn down, for it is vengeance from God. Avenge yourselves on her; as she did, do to her.
Word-by-word analysis· 28 words
ἐξολεθρεύσατε σπέρμα ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος κατέχοντα δρέπανον ἐν καιρῷ θερισμοῦ ἀπὸ προσώπου μαχαίρας Ἑλληνικῆς ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ἀποστρέψουσιν καὶ ἕκαστος εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ φεύξεται
Destroy seed from Babylon and the one holding the sickle in the time of harvest. Before the Greek sword each will turn back to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.
Word-by-word analysis· 26 words
πρόβατον πλανώμενον Ισραηλ λέοντες ἐξῶσαν αὐτόν ὁ πρῶτος ἔφαγεν αὐτὸν βασιλεὺς Ασσουρ καὶ οὗτος ὕστερον τὰ ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος
Israel is a wandering sheep; lions drove him away. The first king of Assyria devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon gnawed his bones.
Word-by-word analysis· 20 words
διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει κύριος ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐκδικῶ ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα Βαβυλῶνος καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ καθὼς ἐξεδίκησα ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα Ασσουρ
Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I am taking vengeance on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
Word-by-word analysis· 23 words
καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω τὸν Ισραηλ εἰς τὴν νομὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ νεμήσεται ἐν τῷ Καρμήλῳ καὶ ἐν ὄρει Εφραιμ καὶ ἐν τῷ Γαλααδ καὶ πλησθήσεται ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ
And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on the hill country of Ephraim and in Gilead, and his soul shall be satisfied.
Word-by-word analysis· 26 words
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις καὶ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ζητήσουσιν τὴν ἀδικίαν Ισραηλ καὶ οὐχ ὑπάρξει καὶ τὰς ἁμαρτίας Ιουδα καὶ οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῶσιν ὅτι ἵλεως ἔσομαι τοῖς ὑπολελειμμένοις ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς λέγει κύριος
In those days and at that time they shall seek the wrongdoing of Israel, and it shall not exist, and the sins of Judah, and they shall certainly not be found; for I will be merciful to the remnant left upon the land, says the Lord.
Word-by-word analysis· 34 words
πικρῶς ἐπίβηθι ἐπ' αὐτὴν καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας ἐπ' αὐτήν ἐκδίκησον μάχαιρα καὶ ἀφάνισον λέγει κύριος καὶ ποίει κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐντέλλομαί σοι
Go up bitterly against her and against those dwelling upon her; avenge with the sword and utterly destroy, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.
Word-by-word analysis· 23 words
φωνὴ πολέμου καὶ συντριβὴ μεγάλη ἐν γῇ Χαλδαίων
A sound of war and great destruction is in the land of the Chaldeans.
Word-by-word analysis· 8 words
πῶς συνεκλάσθη καὶ συνετρίβη ἡ σφῦρα πάσης τῆς γῆς πῶς ἐγενήθη εἰς ἀφανισμὸν Βαβυλὼν ἐν ἔθνεσιν
How the hammer of the whole earth has been broken and shattered; how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations.
Word-by-word analysis· 16 words
ἐπιθήσονταί σοι καὶ ἁλώσῃ ὦ Βαβυλών καὶ οὐ γνώσῃ εὑρέθης καὶ ἐλήμφθης ὅτι τῷ κυρίῳ ἀντέστης
They set a snare for you, and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and seized because you resisted the Lord.
Word-by-word analysis· 16 words
ἤνοιξεν κύριος τὸν θησαυρὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξήνεγκεν τὰ σκεύη ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἔργον τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ ἐν γῇ Χαλδαίων
The Lord opened his treasure house and brought out the weapons of his wrath, because the Lord God has work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
Word-by-word analysis· 19 words
ὅτι ἐληλύθασιν οἱ καιροὶ αὐτῆς ἀνοίξατε τὰς ἀποθήκας αὐτῆς ἐρευνήσατε αὐτὴν ὡς σπήλαιον καὶ ἐξολεθρεύσατε αὐτήν μὴ γενέσθω αὐτῆς κατάλειμμα
For her times have come. Open her storehouses, search her out like a cave, and utterly destroy her; let no remnant remain to her.
Word-by-word analysis· 20 words
ἀναξηράνατε αὐτῆς πάντας τοὺς καρπούς καὶ καταβήτωσαν εἰς σφαγήν οὐαὶ αὐτοῖς ὅτι ἥκει ἡ ἡμέρα αὐτῶν καὶ καιρὸς ἐκδικήσεως αὐτῶν
Dry up all her produce and let them go down to slaughter. Woe to them, because their day has come, the time of their vengeance.
Word-by-word analysis· 20 words
φωνὴ φευγόντων καὶ ἀνασῳζομένων ἐκ γῆς Βαβυλῶνος τοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι εἰς Σιων τὴν ἐκδίκησιν παρὰ κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν
A voice of fugitives and those escaping from the land of Babylon comes to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God.
Word-by-word analysis· 17 words
παραγγείλατε ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα πολλοῖς παντὶ ἐντείνοντι τόξον παρεμβάλετε ἐπ' αὐτὴν κυκλόθεν μὴ ἔστω αὐτῆς ἀνασῳζόμενος ἀνταπόδοτε αὐτῇ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῆς κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησεν ποιήσατε αὐτῇ ὅτι πρὸς τὸν κύριον ἀντέστη θεὸν ἅγιον τοῦ Ισραηλ
Summon many against Babylon, every bowman; encamp around her and let there be no one escaping. Repay her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her, because she stood against the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
Word-by-word analysis· 36 words
διὰ τοῦτο πεσοῦνται οἱ νεανίσκοι αὐτῆς ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις αὐτῆς καὶ πάντες οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ πολεμισταὶ αὐτῆς ῥιφήσονται εἶπεν κύριος
Therefore her young men shall fall in her broad places, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.
Word-by-word analysis· 20 words
ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σὲ τὴν ὑβρίστριαν λέγει κύριος ὅτι ἥκει ἡ ἡμέρα σου καὶ ὁ καιρὸς ἐκδικήσεώς σου
Behold, I am against you, O insolent one, says the Lord, because your day has come, the time of your vengeance.
Word-by-word analysis· 18 words
καὶ ἀσθενήσει ἡ ὕβρις σου καὶ πεσεῖται καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἀνιστῶν αὐτήν καὶ ἀνάψω πῦρ ἐν τῷ δρυμῷ αὐτῆς καὶ καταφάγεται πάντα τὰ κύκλῳ αὐτῆς
And your pride shall grow weak and fall, and there shall be no one to raise it up; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall consume everything around her.
Word-by-word analysis· 26 words
τάδε λέγει κύριος καταδεδυνάστευνται οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Ιουδα ἅμα πάντες οἱ αἰχμαλωτεύσαντες αὐτοὺς κατεδυνάστευσαν αὐτούς ὅτι οὐκ ἠθέλησαν ἐξαποστεῖλαι αὐτούς
Thus says the Lord: The children of Israel and the children of Judah together have been oppressed. All who took them captive tyrannized them, because they would not let them go.
Word-by-word analysis· 23 words
καὶ ὁ λυτρούμενος αὐτοὺς ἰσχυρός κύριος παντοκράτωρ ὄνομα αὐτῷ κρίσιν κρινεῖ πρὸς τοὺς ἀντιδίκους αὐτοῦ ὅπως ἐξάρῃ τὴν γῆν καὶ παροξυνεῖ τοῖς κατοικοῦσι Βαβυλῶνα
But the one redeeming them is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name. He will surely judge their cause, so that he may give rest to the land and provoke the inhabitants of Babylon.
Word-by-word analysis· 24 words
μάχαιραν ἐπὶ τοὺς Χαλδαίους καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Βαβυλῶνα καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς μεγιστᾶνας αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς συνετοὺς αὐτῆς
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles, and upon her wise men.
Word-by-word analysis· 19 words
μάχαιραν ἐπὶ τοὺς μαχητὰς αὐτῆς καὶ παραλυθήσονται
A sword is upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened.
Word-by-word analysis· 7 words
μάχαιραν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἵππους αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ἅρματα αὐτῶν μάχαιραν ἐπὶ τοὺς μαχητὰς αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν σύμμικτον τὸν ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς καὶ ἔσονται ὡσεὶ γυναῖκες μάχαιραν ἐπὶ τοὺς θησαυροὺς αὐτῆς καὶ διασκορπισθήσονται
A sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots, a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in her midst, and they shall become like women; a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be scattered.
Word-by-word analysis· 34 words
ἐπὶ τῷ ὕδατι αὐτῆς ἐπεποίθει καὶ καταισχυνθήσονται ὅτι γῆ τῶν γλυπτῶν ἐστιν καὶ ἐν ταῖς νήσοις οὗ κατεκαυχῶντο
They trusted in her water, and they shall be put to shame, because it is a land of carved images, and in the islands they boasted.
Word-by-word analysis· 18 words
διὰ τοῦτο κατοικήσουσιν ἰνδάλματα ἐν ταῖς νήσοις καὶ κατοικήσουσιν ἐν αὐτῇ θυγατέρες σειρήνων οὐ μὴ κατοικηθῇ οὐκέτι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα
Therefore strange creatures shall dwell on the islands, and daughters of sirens shall dwell in her. She shall never again be inhabited forever.
Word-by-word analysis· 20 words
καθὼς κατέστρεψεν ὁ θεὸς Σοδομα καὶ Γομορρα καὶ τὰς ὁμορούσας αὐταῖς εἶπεν κύριος οὐ μὴ κατοικήσῃ ἐκεῖ ἄνθρωπος καὶ οὐ μὴ παροικήσῃ ἐκεῖ υἱὸς ἀνθρώπου
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there and no son of man shall sojourn there.
Word-by-word analysis· 25 words
ἰδοὺ λαὸς ἔρχεται ἀπὸ βορρᾶ καὶ ἔθνος μέγα καὶ βασιλεῖς πολλοὶ ἐξεγερθήσονται ἀπ' ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς
Behold, a people is coming from the north, and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the farthest part of the earth.
Word-by-word analysis· 16 words
τόξον καὶ ἐγχειρίδιον ἔχοντες ἰταμός ἐστιν καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐλεήσῃ φωνὴ αὐτῶν ὡς θάλασσα ἠχήσει ἐφ' ἵπποις ἱππάσονται παρεσκευασμένοι ὥσπερ πῦρ εἰς πόλεμον πρὸς σέ θύγατερ Βαβυλῶνος
Holding bow and spear, they are fierce and will not show mercy. Their sound will roar like the sea; mounted on horses, prepared as fire for battle, they come against you, daughter Babylon.
Word-by-word analysis· 27 words
ἤκουσεν βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος τὴν ἀκοὴν αὐτῶν καὶ παρελύθησαν αἱ χεῖρες αὐτοῦ θλῖψις κατεκράτησεν αὐτοῦ ὠδῖνες ὡς τικτούσης
The king of Babylon heard their report, and his hands went slack. Distress seized him, pangs like a woman giving birth.
Word-by-word analysis· 17 words
ἰδοὺ ὥσπερ λέων ἀναβήσεται ἀπὸ τοῦ Ιορδάνου εἰς τόπον Αιθαμ ὅτι ταχέως ἐκδιώξω αὐτοὺς ἀπ' αὐτῆς καὶ πάντα νεανίσκον ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἐπιστήσω ὅτι τίς ὥσπερ ἐγώ καὶ τίς ἀντιστήσεταί μοι καὶ τίς οὗτος ποιμήν ὃς στήσεται κατὰ πρόσωπόν μου
Behold, like a lion he will come up from the Jordan to Etham’s place, because I will quickly drive them from it, and I will appoint every chosen young man over her; for who is like me, and who will resist me, and what shepherd is this who will stand before me?
Word-by-word analysis· 39 words
διὰ τοῦτο ἀκούσατε τὴν βουλὴν κυρίου ἣν βεβούλευται ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα καὶ λογισμοὺς αὐτοῦ οὓς ἐλογίσατο ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Χαλδαίους ἐὰν μὴ διαφθαρῇ τὰ ἀρνία τῶν προβάτων αὐτῶν ἐὰν μὴ ἀφανισθῇ νομὴ ἀπ' αὐτῶν
Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that he has purposed against Babylon and his designs that he has planned against the inhabitants of the Chaldeans: surely the lambs of their flock shall be destroyed, and surely their pasture shall be made desolate because of them.
Word-by-word analysis· 33 words
ὅτι ἀπὸ φωνῆς ἁλώσεως Βαβυλῶνος σεισθήσεται ἡ γῆ καὶ κραυγὴ ἐν ἔθνεσιν ἀκουσθήσεται
At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth shall be shaken, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.