The Utter Destruction of Babylon

Jeremiah 51

1 Thus says the Lord:
"Behold, I will stir up n the spirit of a destroyer
against Babylon,
against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai, 1
2 and I will send to Babylon winnowers,
and o they shall winnow her,
and they shall empty her land,
when they come against her from every side
p on the day of trouble.
 3 q Let not the archer bend his bow,
and let him not stand up in his armor.
Spare not her young men;
r devote to destruction 2 all her army.
 4 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans,
s and wounded in her streets.
 5 t For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken
by their God, the Lord of hosts,
but the land of the Chaldeans 3 is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel.

6 u "Flee from the midst of Babylon;
let every one save his life!
v Be not cut off in her punishment,
w for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance,
the repayment he is rendering her.
 7 Babylon was x a golden cup in the Lord's hand,
y making all the earth drunken;
z the nations drank of her wine;
therefore the nations went mad.
 8 a Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
b wail for her!
c Take balm for her pain;
perhaps she may be healed.
 9 We would have healed Babylon,
but she was not healed.
d Forsake her, and e let us go
each to his own country,
for f her judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.
 10 g The Lord has brought about our vindication;
h come, let us declare in Zion
the work of the Lord our God.

11 i "Sharpen the arrows!
Take up the shields!
j The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of k the Medes, because l his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, m for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for m his temple.

12 n "Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon;
o make the watch strong;
set up watchmen;
prepare the ambushes;
l for the Lord has both planned and done
what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
 13 p O you who dwell by many waters,
rich in treasures,
your end has come;
the thread of your life is cut.
 14 q The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself:
Surely I will fill you with men, r as many as locusts,
s and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.

15 t "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 u 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 v the old man and the youth;
with you I break in pieces v 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 w governors and commanders.

24 x "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,
y and make you a burnt mountain.
 26 No z stone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be a a perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.

27 b "Set up a standard on the earth;
c blow the trumpet among the nations;
d prepare e the nations for war against her;
summon against her f the kingdoms,
g Ararat, Minni, and h Ashkenaz;
appoint a i marshal against her;
j bring up horses like bristling locusts.
 28 d Prepare e the nations for war against her,
the kings of k the Medes, l with their governors l and deputies,
and every m land under their dominion.
 29 n The land trembles and writhes in pain,
o 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;
p they have become women;
q her dwellings are on fire;
r her bars are broken.
 31 One s 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 t 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:
u The daughter of Babylon is like u a threshing floor
at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while
and v the time of her harvest will come."

34 "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon w has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
x he has swallowed me like y a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out. 4
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, z I will plead your cause
and take vengeance for you.
a I will dry up her sea
and b make her fountain dry,
 37 and Babylon shall become c a heap of ruins,
d the haunt of jackals,
e a horror e and a hissing,
without inhabitant.

38 f "They shall roar together g like lions;
they shall growl like lions' cubs.
 39 h While they are inflamed h I will prepare them a feast
and i make them drunk, that they may become merry,
i 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 j Babylon 5 is taken,
k the praise of the whole earth l seized!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the nations!
 42 m The sea has come up on Babylon;
she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
 43 Her cities have become a horror,
n a land of drought and a desert,
o a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
 44 And I will punish p Bel in Babylon,
and q take out of his mouth r what he has swallowed.
s The nations shall no longer flow to him;
t the wall of Babylon has fallen.

45 "Go out of the midst of her, u my people!
Let every one save his life
from v the fierce anger of the Lord!
 46 Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful
w at the report heard in the land,
x when a report comes in one year
and afterward a report in another year,
and violence is in the land,
x and ruler is against ruler.

47 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming
when y I will punish the images of Babylon;
z her whole land shall be put to shame,
and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
 48 a Then the heavens and the earth,
and all that is in them,
shall sing for joy over Babylon,
b for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north,
declares the Lord.
 49 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,
c just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.

50 d "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 e 'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach;
e dishonor has covered our face,
f for foreigners have come
into the holy places of the Lord's house.'

52 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
when y I will execute judgment upon her images,
g and through all her land
the wounded shall groan.
 53 Though Babylon should h mount up to heaven,
and though she should i fortify her strong height,
yet destroyers would come from me against her,
declares the Lord.

54 j "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.
k 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,
l for the Lord is a God of recompense;
he will surely repay.
 57 m I will make drunk her officials and her wise men,
n her governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
declares o the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

58 "Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad p wall of Babylon
shall be leveled to the ground,
q and her high gates
shall be burned with fire.
r The peoples labor for nothing,
and s the nations weary themselves only for fire."

59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah t the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, u in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. 60 v Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, w 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 x that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be y desolate forever.' 63 When you finish reading this book, z a tie a stone to it z and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,

64 and say, z 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, b and they shall become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 4:11
    At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse.
    Isaiah 21:1
    The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
  2. Cross References
    Matthew 3:12
    His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
    Jeremiah 15:7
    I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:28
    But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:14
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:29
    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.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:21
    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.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 49:26
    Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, declares the Lord of hosts.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 54:5 - 7
    For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
  8. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:45
    Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the Lord!
    Jeremiah 50:8
    Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 19:15
    As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.
  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    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.
  11. Cross References
    Psalms 75:8
    For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
    Revelation 17:4
    The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
  12. Cross References
    Revelation 14:8
    Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.
  13. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:15 - 16
    Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:9
    And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.
  15. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:6
    Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
    Revelation 18:9
    And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
    Revelation 18:11
    And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore.
    Revelation 18:19
    And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, "Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.
    Jeremiah 48:20
    Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:11
    Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:6
    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.
    Jeremiah 51:45
    Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the Lord!
    Jeremiah 50:8
    Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.
  18. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:16
    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.
    Isaiah 13:14
    And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.
  19. Cross References
    Revelation 18:5
    For her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 37:6
    He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
    Jeremiah 23:6
    In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The Lord is our righteousness.
  21. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:28
    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.
  22. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:4
    Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!
  23. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:17
    Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.
  24. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
    Daniel 5:31
    And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
  25. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:45
    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.
  26. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:28
    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.
  27. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:28
    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.
  28. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:27
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:2
    "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.'
    Isaiah 13:2
    On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.
  29. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:5
    They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!
    Nahum 2:1
    The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.
  30. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:11
    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.
  31. Cross References
    Revelation 17:1
    Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters.
    Revelation 17:15
    And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
    Jeremiah 51:36
    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.
  32. Cross References
    Jeremiah 22:5
    But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
  33. Cross References
    Psalms 105:34
    He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number.
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
    Joel 2:25
    I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
  34. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:9
    Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased.
  35. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:15 - 19
    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.
    Jeremiah 10:12 - 16
    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.
  36. Cross References
    Daniel 7:7
    After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.
    Daniel 7:19
    Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet.
    Daniel 7:23
    Thus he said: 'As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces.
  37. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:17
    Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
    Isaiah 13:16
    Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.
    Isaiah 13:18
    Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.
  38. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:17
    Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
    Isaiah 13:16
    Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.
    Isaiah 13:18
    Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.
  39. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:28
    Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
    Jeremiah 51:57
    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.
  40. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:29
    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.
    Psalms 137:8
    O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
  41. Cross References
    Revelation 8:8
    The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
    Revelation 18:8 - 9
    For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.
  42. Cross References
    Psalms 118:22
    The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
    Isaiah 28:16
    Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
  43. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:62
    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.
    Jeremiah 25:12
    Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
  44. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:12
    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.
  45. Cross References
    Jeremiah 4:5
    Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, 'Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!
  46. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:4
    Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!
  47. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:14
    For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.
  48. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:41
    Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
  49. Cross References
    Genesis 8:4
    And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
    2 Kings 19:37
    And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
  50. Cross References
    Genesis 10:3
    The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
    1 Chronicles 1:6
    The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
  51. Cross References
    Nahum 3:17
    Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold - when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.
  52. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:14
    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.
  53. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:27
    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.
  54. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:27
    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.
  55. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:11
    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.
  56. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:23
    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.
    Jeremiah 51:57
    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.
  57. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:23
    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.
    Jeremiah 51:57
    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. Cross References
    Jeremiah 34:1
    The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:
  59. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:16
    The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.
  60. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:45
    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.
  61. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:37
    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!
    Isaiah 19:16
    In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts shakes over them.
  62. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:14
    Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
  63. Cross References
    Lamentations 2:9
    Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord.
    Nahum 3:13
    Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.
  64. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 30:6
    So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
  65. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:41
    How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
  66. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:10
    O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.
  67. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:10
    O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.
  68. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:5
    And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
    Joel 3:13
    Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
    Revelation 14:15
    And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.
  69. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:17
    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.
  70. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:44
    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.
  71. Cross References
    Psalms 74:13
    You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.
  72. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:34
    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.
  73. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:27
    Who says to the deep, 'Be dry; I will dry up your rivers'.
    Jeremiah 50:38
    A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.
  74. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:13
    O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
  75. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:2
    For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
  76. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:22
    Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.
  77. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:16
    Making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
  78. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:16
    Making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.
  79. Cross References
    Amos 3:4
    Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?
  80. Cross References
    Nahum 2:11 - 12
    Where is the lions' den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
  81. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:5
    They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!
  82. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:5
    They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!
  83. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:57
    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.
  84. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:57
    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.
  85. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:26
    All the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.
  86. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
  87. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:32
    The fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.
  88. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:55
    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.
    Isaiah 8:7 - 8
    Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
  89. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:12
    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.
  90. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:40
    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.
  91. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:2
    "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.'
    Isaiah 46:1
    Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts.
  92. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:34
    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.
    Ezra 1:7 - 8
    Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.
  93. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:34
    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.
  94. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:12
    They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.
    Isaiah 2:2
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
  95. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:58
    "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."
  96. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:6
    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.
  97. Cross References
    Jeremiah 12:13
    They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
  98. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:7
    Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'
  99. Cross References
    Matthew 24:6 - 7
    And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
  100. Cross References
    Matthew 24:6 - 7
    And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
  101. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:2
    "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.'
  102. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:12
    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.
  103. Cross References
    Revelation 18:20
    Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!
    Isaiah 44:23
    Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.
  104. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:3
    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.
  105. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:24
    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.
  106. Cross References
    Jeremiah 44:28
    And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.
  107. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:19
    Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?
    Psalms 44:15 - 16
    All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face
  108. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:19
    Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?
    Psalms 44:15 - 16
    All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face
  109. Cross References
    Lamentations 1:10
    The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
  110. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:47
    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.
  111. Cross References
    Job 24:12
    From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.
    Ezekiel 26:15
    Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?
  112. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:25
    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.
    Isaiah 14:13
    You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north.
  113. Cross References
    Jeremiah 49:16
    The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.
  114. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:22
    The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!
  115. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:42
    The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
    Jeremiah 5:22
    Do you not fear me? declares the Lord. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
  116. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    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.
    Isaiah 59:18
    According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
  117. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:39
    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.
  118. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:23
    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.
    Jeremiah 51:28
    Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
  119. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:18
    As I live, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
  120. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:44
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:15
    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.
  121. Cross References
    Isaiah 45:2
    I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
  122. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:13
    Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?
  123. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:64
    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.
  124. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:12
    And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard.
  125. Cross References
    Jeremiah 28:1
    In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying.
  126. Cross References
    Jeremiah 36:2
    Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
  127. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:1 - 58
    Thus says the Lord : "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai.
    Jeremiah 50:1 - 46
    The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:
  128. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:3
    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.
  129. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:26
    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.
  130. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:10 - 11
    Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you.
  131. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:10 - 11
    Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you.
  132. Cross References
    Revelation 18:21
    Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more.
  133. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:63
    When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates.
  134. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:58
    "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."
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