Monday, October 20, 2025

October 20

John 6:25-40


[25] When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” [26] Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. [27] Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” [28] Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” [29] Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” [30] So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? [31] Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” [32] Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. [33] For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” [34] They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”


[35] Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. [36] But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. [37] All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. [38] For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. [39] And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. [40] For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”


1 Peter 3:8-12


[8] Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. [9] Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. [10] For 


    “Whoever desires to love life

        and see good days,

    let him keep his tongue from evil

        and his lips from speaking deceit; 

    [11] let him turn away from evil and do good;

        let him seek peace and pursue it. 

    [12] For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

        and his ears are open to their prayer.

    But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”


Song of Solomon 4:8-16


    [8] Come with me from Lebanon, my bride;

        come with me from Lebanon.

    Depart from the peak of Amana,

        from the peak of Senir and Hermon,

    from the dens of lions,

        from the mountains of leopards.


    [9] You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride;

        you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes,

        with one jewel of your necklace. 

    [10] How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!

        How much better is your love than wine,

        and the fragrance of your oils than any spice! 

    [11] Your lips drip nectar, my bride;

        honey and milk are under your tongue;

        the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. 

    [12] A garden locked is my sister, my bride,

        a spring locked, a fountain sealed. 

    [13] Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates

        with all choicest fruits,

        henna with nard, 

    [14] nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,

        with all trees of frankincense,

    myrrh and aloes,

        with all choice spices—

    [15] a garden fountain, a well of living water,

        and flowing streams from Lebanon.


    [16] Awake, O north wind,

        and come, O south wind!

    Blow upon my garden,

        let its spices flow.


Jeremiah 51


    [1] Thus says the LORD:

    “Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer

        against Babylon,

        against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai, 

    [2] and I will send to Babylon winnowers,

        and they shall winnow her,

    and they shall empty her land,

        when they come against her from every side

        on the day of trouble. 

    [3] Let not the archer bend his bow,

        and let him not stand up in his armor.

    Spare not her young men;

        devote to destruction all her army. 

    [4] They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,

        and wounded in her streets. 

    [5] For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken

        by their God, the LORD of hosts,

    but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt

        against the Holy One of Israel.


    [6] “Flee from the midst of Babylon;

        let every one save his life!

    Be not cut off in her punishment,

        for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance,

        the repayment he is rendering her. 

    [7] Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’s hand,

        making all the earth drunken;

    the nations drank of her wine;

        therefore the nations went mad. 

    [8] Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;

        wail for her!

    Take balm for her pain;

        perhaps she may be healed. 

    [9] We would have healed Babylon,

        but she was not healed.

    Forsake her, and let us go

        each to his own country,

    for her judgment has reached up to heaven

        and has been lifted up even to the skies. 

    [10] The LORD has brought about our vindication;

        come, let us declare in Zion

        the work of the LORD our God.


    [11] “Sharpen the arrows!

        Take up the shields!


    The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple. 


    [12] “Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon;

        make the watch strong;

    set up watchmen;

        prepare the ambushes;

    for the LORD has both planned and done

        what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 

    [13] O you who dwell by many waters,

        rich in treasures,

    your end has come;

        the thread of your life is cut. 

    [14] The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself:

    Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts,

        and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.


    [15] “It is he who made the earth by his power,

        who established the world by his wisdom,

    and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. 

    [16] When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,

        and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.

    He makes lightning for the rain,

        and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 

    [17] Every man is stupid and without knowledge;

        every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,

    for his images are false,

        and there is no breath in them. 

    [18] They are worthless, a work of delusion;

        at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 

    [19] Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob,

        for he is the one who formed all things,

    and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;

        the LORD of hosts is his name.


    [20] “You are my hammer and weapon of war:

    with you I break nations in pieces;

        with you I destroy kingdoms; 

    [21] with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

        with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer; 

    [22] with you I break in pieces man and woman;

        with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth;

    with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman; 

    [23]     with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;

    with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team;

        with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.


    [24] “I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.


    [25] “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,

    declares the LORD,

        which destroys the whole earth;

    I will stretch out my hand against you,

        and roll you down from the crags,

        and make you a burnt mountain. 

    [26] No stone shall be taken from you for a corner

        and no stone for a foundation,

    but you shall be a perpetual waste,

        declares the LORD.


    [27] “Set up a standard on the earth;

        blow the trumpet among the nations;

    prepare the nations for war against her;

        summon against her the kingdoms,

        Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;

    appoint a marshal against her;

        bring up horses like bristling locusts. 

    [28] Prepare the nations for war against her,

        the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies,

        and every land under their dominion. 

    [29] The land trembles and writhes in pain,

        for the LORD’s purposes against Babylon stand,

    to make the land of Babylon a desolation,

        without inhabitant. 

    [30] The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting;

        they remain in their strongholds;

    their strength has failed;

        they have become women;

    her dwellings are on fire;

        her bars are broken. 

    [31] One runner runs to meet another,

        and one messenger to meet another,

    to tell the king of Babylon

        that his city is taken on every side; 

    [32] the fords have been seized,

        the marshes are burned with fire,

        and the soldiers are in panic. 

    [33] For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:

    The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor

        at the time when it is trodden;

    yet a little while

        and the time of her harvest will come.”


    [34] “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;

        he has crushed me;

    he has made me an empty vessel;

        he has swallowed me like a monster;

    he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;

        he has rinsed me out. 

    [35] The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”

        let the inhabitant of Zion say.

    “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”

        let Jerusalem say. 

    [36] Therefore thus says the LORD:

    “Behold, I will plead your cause

        and take vengeance for you.

    I will dry up her sea

        and make her fountain dry, 

    [37] and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,

        the haunt of jackals,

    a horror and a hissing,

        without inhabitant.


    [38] “They shall roar together like lions;

        they shall growl like lions’ cubs. 

    [39] While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast

        and make them drunk, that they may become merry,

    then sleep a perpetual sleep

        and not wake, declares the LORD. 

    [40] I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,

        like rams and male goats.


    [41] “How Babylon is taken,

        the praise of the whole earth seized!

    How Babylon has become

        a horror among the nations! 

    [42] The sea has come up on Babylon;

        she is covered with its tumultuous waves. 

    [43] Her cities have become a horror,

        a land of drought and a desert,

    a land in which no one dwells,

        and through which no son of man passes. 

    [44] And I will punish Bel in Babylon,

        and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed.

    The nations shall no longer flow to him;

        the wall of Babylon has fallen.


    [45] “Go out of the midst of her, my people!

        Let every one save his life

        from the fierce anger of the LORD! 

    [46] Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful

        at the report heard in the land,

    when a report comes in one year

        and afterward a report in another year,

    and violence is in the land,

        and ruler is against ruler.


    [47] “Therefore, behold, the days are coming

        when I will punish the images of Babylon;

    her whole land shall be put to shame,

        and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 

    [48] Then the heavens and the earth,

        and all that is in them,

    shall sing for joy over Babylon,

        for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north,

    declares the LORD. 

    [49] Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,

        just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.


    [50] “You who have escaped from the sword,

        go, do not stand still!

    Remember the LORD from far away,

        and let Jerusalem come into your mind: 

    [51] ‘We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach;

        dishonor has covered our face,

    for foreigners have come

        into the holy places of the LORD’s house.’


    [52] “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,

        when I will execute judgment upon her images,

    and through all her land

        the wounded shall groan. 

    [53] Though Babylon should mount up to heaven,

        and though she should fortify her strong height,

    yet destroyers would come from me against her,

        declares the LORD.


    [54] “A voice! A cry from Babylon!

        The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! 

    [55] For the LORD is laying Babylon waste

        and stilling her mighty voice.

    Their waves roar like many waters;

        the noise of their voice is raised, 

    [56] for a destroyer has come upon her,

        upon Babylon;

    her warriors are taken;

        their bows are broken in pieces,

    for the LORD is a God of recompense;

        he will surely repay. 

    [57] I will make drunk her officials and her wise men,

        her governors, her commanders, and her warriors;

    they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,

        declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.


    [58] “Thus says the LORD of hosts:

    The broad wall of Babylon

        shall be leveled to the ground,

    and her high gates

        shall be burned with fire.

    The peoples labor for nothing,

        and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”


    [59] The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. [60] Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. [61] And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, [62] and say, ‘O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.’ [63] When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, [64] and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.’” 


Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Prayer’s First Priority

“Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.” (Matthew 6:9)


In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus teaches that the first priority in praying is to ask our heavenly Father to cause his name to be hallowed. In us. In the church. In the world. Everywhere.


Notice that this is a petition, a request. It is not a declaration or acclamation. It is not an expression of praise, but petition. For years I misread the Lord’s Prayer as if it began with praise: “Praise God, the Lord’s name is hallowed, revered, honored!” But it is not acclamation. It is supplication. It is a request to God that he would see to it that his own name be hallowed.


It is like another text, Matthew 9:38, where Jesus tells us to pray to the Lord of the harvest that he would send out laborers into his own harvest. It never ceases to amaze me that we, we laborers, should be instructed to ask the owner of the farm, who knows the harvest better than we do, to add on more farm hands.


But isn’t this the same thing we have here in the Lord’s Prayer — Jesus is telling us to ask God, who is infinitely jealous for the honor of his own name, to see to it that his name be hallowed, which means honored, revered, exalted as supremely precious?


Well it may amaze us, but there it is. And it teaches us two things.


One is that prayer does not move God to do things he is disinclined to do. He has every intention to cause his name to be hallowed. Nothing is higher on God’s priority list. But we should ask anyway.


The other is that prayer is God’s way of bringing our priorities into line with his. God wills to make great things the consequence of our prayers when our prayers are the consequence of his great purposes.


Bring your heart into line with the jealousy of God to hallow his name, and you will pray with great effect. Let your first and all-determining prayer be for the hallowing of God’s name, and your prayers will plug into the power of God’s jealousy for his name.



John Piper 

Only What’s Done for Christ Will Last

“Now when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out, saying, ‘Great is Diana of the Ephesians!’ So the whole city was filled with confusion, and rushed into the theater with one accord, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s travel companions.”  ACTS 19:28-29

 

PONDER THIS


In Ephesus, there was an uproar with Demetrius the silversmith when Paul came and preached the truth. They tried to make Paul look like the bad guy. They held onto their sin and refused Christ. It was a tragedy. I've been to Ephesus, where all this took place. Guess what. Ephesus is in ruin, Demetrius is dead, and all those silversmiths are gone. It has been said, “You only have one life, and it will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last.” This is the truth. We can get in an uproar to insist on our own way or listen to the God who truly knows best for us.


Following Christ is the only way that will last. We are often taken off course by the pleasures of the world that ultimately will fade away. But we will never regret a single moment spent for Christ.


What are some reasons Christ is a treasure to you?

What are some ways you want to grow in meeting the needs of others? Who in your community needs help?


PRACTICE THIS


Help someone in need in your community.



LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers 

Sunday, October 19, 2025

October 19

Mess up yesterday! Sorry!
John 6:16-24

[16] When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, [17] got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. [18] The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. [19] When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. [20] But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” [21] Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

[22] On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. [23] Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. [24] So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


1 Peter 3:1-7


[1] Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, [2] when they see your respectful and pure conduct. [3] Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—[4] but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. [5] For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, [6] as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.


[7] Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.


Song of Solomon 4:1-7


    [1] Behold, you are beautiful, my love,

        behold, you are beautiful!

    Your eyes are doves

        behind your veil.

    Your hair is like a flock of goats

        leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 

    [2] Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes

        that have come up from the washing,

    all of which bear twins,

        and not one among them has lost its young. 

    [3] Your lips are like a scarlet thread,

        and your mouth is lovely.

    Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate

        behind your veil. 

    [4] Your neck is like the tower of David,

        built in rows of stone;

    on it hang a thousand shields,

        all of them shields of warriors. 

    [5] Your two breasts are like two fawns,

        twins of a gazelle,

        that graze among the lilies. 

    [6] Until the day breathes

        and the shadows flee,

    I will go away to the mountain of myrrh

        and the hill of frankincense. 

    [7] You are altogether beautiful, my love;

        there is no flaw in you.


Jeremiah 50


[1] The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:


    [2] “Declare among the nations and proclaim,

        set up a banner and proclaim,

        conceal it not, and say:

    ‘Babylon is taken,

        Bel is put to shame,

        Merodach is dismayed.

    Her images are put to shame,

        her idols are dismayed.’


    [3] “For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.


[4] “In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the LORD their God. [5] They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’


[6] “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold. [7] All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’


[8] “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock. [9] For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed. [10] Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, declares the LORD.


    [11] “Though you rejoice, though you exult,

        O plunderers of my heritage,

    though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture,

        and neigh like stallions, 

    [12] your mother shall be utterly shamed,

        and she who bore you shall be disgraced.

    Behold, she shall be the last of the nations,

        a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 

    [13] Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited

        but shall be an utter desolation;

    everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled,

        and hiss because of all her wounds. 

    [14] Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around,

        all you who bend the bow;

    shoot at her, spare no arrows,

        for she has sinned against the LORD. 

    [15] Raise a shout against her all around;

        she has surrendered;

    her bulwarks have fallen;

        her walls are thrown down.

    For this is the vengeance of the LORD:

        take vengeance on her;

        do to her as she has done. 

    [16] Cut off from Babylon the sower,

        and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest;

    because of the sword of the oppressor,

        every one shall turn to his own people,

        and every one shall flee to his own land.


    [17] “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones. [18] Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria. [19] I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. [20] In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.


    [21] “Go up against the land of Merathaim,

        and against the inhabitants of Pekod.

    Kill, and devote them to destruction,

    declares the LORD,

        and do all that I have commanded you. 

    [22] The noise of battle is in the land,

        and great destruction! 

    [23] How the hammer of the whole earth

        is cut down and broken!

    How Babylon has become

        a horror among the nations! 

    [24] I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon,

        and you did not know it;

    you were found and caught,

        because you opposed the LORD. 

    [25] The LORD has opened his armory

        and brought out the weapons of his wrath,

    for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do

        in the land of the Chaldeans. 

    [26] Come against her from every quarter;

        open her granaries;

    pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;

        let nothing be left of her. 

    [27] Kill all her bulls;

        let them go down to the slaughter.

    Woe to them, for their day has come,

        the time of their punishment.


    [28] “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.


[29] “Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. [30] Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, declares the LORD.


    [31] “Behold, I am against you, O proud one,

        declares the Lord GOD of hosts,

    for your day has come,

        the time when I will punish you. 

    [32] The proud one shall stumble and fall,

        with none to raise him up,

    and I will kindle a fire in his cities,

        and it will devour all that is around him.


    [33] “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go. [34] Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.


    [35] “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD,

        and against the inhabitants of Babylon,

        and against her officials and her wise men! 

    [36] A sword against the diviners,

        that they may become fools!

    A sword against her warriors,

        that they may be destroyed! 

    [37] A sword against her horses and against her chariots,

        and against all the foreign troops in her midst,

        that they may become women!

    A sword against all her treasures,

        that they may be plundered! 

    [38] A drought against her waters,

        that they may be dried up!

    For it is a land of images,

        and they are mad over idols.


    [39] “Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. [40] As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.


    [41] “Behold, a people comes from the north;

        a mighty nation and many kings

        are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth. 

    [42] They lay hold of bow and spear;

        they are cruel and have no mercy.

    The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea;

        they ride on horses,

    arrayed as a man for battle

        against you, O daughter of Babylon!


    [43] “The king of Babylon heard the report of them,

        and his hands fell helpless;

    anguish seized him,

        pain as of a woman in labor.


    [44] “Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me? [45] Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate. [46] At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations.”