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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
Listen, I’m about to stir up a destructive wind against Babylon
and against the Babylonian people.
2 ≈ I’ll send foreigners into Babylon, and they’ll shake it down and devastate its land,
because they’ll come against it from all sides on that disastrous day.
3 Don’t let the archers shoot their arrows
≈ Don’t let their soldiers put on their armour.
≈ Destroy their army completely.
4 Their wounded will fall in the land of the Chaldeans.
≈ Those who’re stabbed will fall in its streets,
5 because Yisrael and Yehudah haven’t been abandoned by their god, Commander-in-chief Yahweh,
even though their[fn] own land is filled with offenses committed against Yisrael’s holy one.
6 Escape quickly from out of Babylon—each person must save themself.
Don’t die there because of their wickedness
because now is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance.
He’ll repay Babylon for everything they’ve done.
7 Babylon was like a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand that made all the world drunk—
nations drank its wine and went mad.[ref]
8 Suddenly Babylon will fall and be destroyed.
Wail for it—give it medicine for its pain—perhaps it can be healed?
9 We tried to heal Babylon, but it never recovered,
so leave it and let everyone go back to their own region,
because its guilt has reached up to the heavens—
it’s piled up to the clouds.[ref]
10 Yahweh has now decided that we’ve served our time.
Let’s go and tell everyone in Tsiyyon (Zion) what our god Yahweh has done.
11 Sharpen your arrows and strap on your shields.
Yahweh is stirring up the spirit of the kings of the Medes in his plan to destroy Babylon
because of Yahweh’s vengeance—revenge for their destruction of his temple.
12 Lift up your banner over Babylon’s walls.
Reinforce the guards. Assign watchmen.
Prepare your ambushes because Yahweh will do what he has said concerning Babylon’s inhabitants.
13 You people who live by many water supplies and who are rich with treasures, your end has come.
The thread of your life is now cut short.[ref] 14 Commander-in-chief Yahweh has made an oath by his own life:
51:5 This pronoun could refer either to Yisrael and Yehudah, or to Babylon, so other translations might take the alternative rendering here.
Rev 17:2-4:
2 that the rulers of the earth committed sexual immorality with, and those living on the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her sexual immorality.”[ref]
3 Then in the spirit I was carried away to a wilderness and I saw a woman sitting on a wild animal that was scarlet and had anti-God names written all over it. It had seven heads and ten horns.[ref] 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls. In her hand she was holding a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality,[ref]
18:3:
3 All the nations have participated in her immoral passions, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become wealthy from the power of her luxury.”[ref]
Rev 18:5:
5 because her pile of sins has reached up to heaven,[ref]
so God has noticed her wickedness.
Rev 17:1:
17 Then one of the seven messengers holding the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come, I’ll show you the judgement of the famous prostitute sitting on many waters,[ref]
