#The Fall of Babylon

[awidevastdominion]

The Fall of Babylon / John Martin, 1831

[dannyfariiia]

The fall of Babylon, John Martin, mezzotint with etching, 1835

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Babylon Is Fallen

1 THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land,

2 so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.

3 Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.

4 My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

5 Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields.

6 For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.

7 And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.

8 Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:

9 and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.

10 Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts which the God of Israel has declared to us.

The Burden against Edom

11 THE VISION OF IDUMEA. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.

12 I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.

The Burden against Arabia

13 Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Daedan.

14 Ye that dwell in the country of Thaeman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

15 meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.

16 For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling, and the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail: 17 and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it. — Isaiah 21 | Brenton's Septuagint Translation (BST) The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851) Cross References: Genesis 10:7; Genesis 25:14-15; Genesis 32:3; Numbers 23:19; Deuteronomy 28:67; Deuteronomy 32:11; 2 Samuel 1:21; 2 Kings 9:17; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Chronicles 20:24; Job 6:19; Psalm 25:3; Psalm 120:5; Song of Solomon 1:5; Song of Solomon 3:3; Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 10:19; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 13:14-15; Isaiah 16:14; Jeremiah 17:24; Jeremiah 46:3; Jeremiah 51:33; Ezekiel 40:4; Habakkuk 2:1; John 16:21; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 18:2

[geschwartz]

[misfits-in-motion]

"i'm so normal!" i say as i continuously devour media of my interests as if i am a poor starving british orphan and a single crumb of content is a scrap of bread

[illustratus]

Babylon Fallen by Gustave Doré

[peninsularian]

RIP Cocoa Tea

[greysectorpod]

Ivanova for most of the Shadow War

[therighthandofvengeance]

Delenn pops out of a cocoon, takes one (1) look at Sheridan, and has the most human thought ever:

“Yeah, I could probably domesticate that.”

[raurquiz]

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[thethirdromana]

The Deconstruction of Falling Stars!

Still can't get over Londo and G'Kar being friends now.

I just noticed Sheridan's terrible new goatee. I'm not a fan.

I hope there's not too much of the kind of talking-head shouty TV show that I avoid even when it's about real news.

I mean, it's very realistic to the genre, I'll give them that.

OK, the 100-year jump is fun. I like the process of history already beginning to be rewritten.

Delenn tearing into the academics is great. My husband (who is an academic) is really enjoying it.

Also, this is possibly the most convincing old age hair and makeup I've seen on TV. The Babylon 5 hair and makeup team really were the best of the best.

500 years after Babylon 5, Earth is still not a stable democracy? That's grim.

Their propaganda hasn't even become more subtle.

JMS really not going in for a Whig view of history here.

A weird side-effect of Claudia Christian not being in this (presumably because she had left by the time it was filmed?) is that it gives the impression that Ivanova has just been entirely written out of the narrative. Feels depressingly plausible, tbh. History remembers the one woman who was also the Great Man's wife, and that's it.

Did Garibaldi just cause a little regional war to spiral into mutually assured destruction?

Aww, I think Marcus would love to know he'd become part of a quasi-Arthurian myth.

That was utterly bizarre, and I didn't quite buy all of it. But I love that they attempted it.

[sapphiccharacterstournament]

Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round 2 (Bracket 6)

[angeloftheodd]

Queen Babylon at Hearthstone Castle 🤘🏰🖤

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[mobiusstripper]

Filip calling out Marco in front of everyone in Babylon's Ashes is such a good moment. It sucks how many people shit on Filip as a character. Yeah, he did some really, really bad things (or, at the very least, was extremely complicit in them), but he was still a CHILD who was manipulated from birth by a man he (almost literally) looked up to as a god. (Seriously - look closely at the language in Filip's early POV chapters when he talks about Marco. It's almost Old Testament.) He was given life-and-death responsibility that he lacked the maturity to really even comprehend at his age and was saddled with moral injury that lasted the rest of his life. Seriously, think about the dumb shit YOU said, did, and believed at fifteen, sixteen.

There's no way he didn't know the consequences of standing up to Marco like that, especially in front of other people. I don't really give a shit about the "were they redeemed/weren't they redeemed/can they be redeemed" conversation around fictional characters because redemption is a subjective moral judgment. All I'm saying is that took real courage. And walking away took real courage. And it takes real courage to find an open door when someone else has already shut so many of your doors for you before you even knew they were there.

[rank-sentimentalist]

Babylon 5, "The Fall of Night"

"Before I leave here, there will be an Earth-Centauri alliance that will guarantee peace for Earth. We will, at last know peace in our time." – Frederick Lantze

"It was the end of the Earth year 2259, and the war was upon us. As anticipated, a few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced, the Centauri widened their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds. And there was another war brewing closer to home - a personal one whose cost would be higher than any of us could imagine. We came to this place because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. By the end of 2259, we knew that it had failed. But in so doing, it became something greater; as the war expanded, it became our last, best hope for victory. Because sometimes "peace" is another word for "surrender", and because secrets have a way of getting out." – Commander Susan Ivanova, narration at the end of the episode

[stardustinthesky]

Goodnight, you who were my sky, and my sun, and my moon.