Israel's Remnant Taunts Babylon
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It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,
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that you f will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:
"How the oppressor has ceased,
The g golden city ceased!
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The LORD has broken h the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of the rulers;
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He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
He who ruled the nations in anger,
Is persecuted and no one hinders.
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The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
They break forth into singing.
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i Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you,
And the cedars of Lebanon,
Saying, 'Since you were cut down,
No woodsman has come up against us.'
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"Hell j from beneath is excited about you,
To meet you at your coming;
It stirs up the dead for you,
All the chief ones of the earth;
It has raised up from their thrones
All the kings of the nations.
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They all shall k speak and say to you:
'Have you also become as weak as we?
Have you become like us?
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Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
And the sound of your stringed instruments;
The maggot is spread under you,
And worms cover you.'
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"How l you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
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For you have said in your heart:
m 'I will ascend into heaven,
n I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the o mount of the congregation
p On the farthest sides of the north;
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
q I will be like the Most High.'
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Yet you r shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.
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"Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
' Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
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Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'
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"All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house;
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But you are cast out of your grave
Like an abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
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You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
s The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
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Prepare slaughter for his children
t Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities."
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"For I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts,
"And cut off from Babylon u the name and v remnant,
w And offspring and posterity," says the LORD.
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"I will also make it a possession for the x porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.
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Cross References
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Habakkuk 2:6
Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases What is not his - how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges'?
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Revelation 18:16
And saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!
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Psalms 125:3
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest On the land allotted to the righteous, Lest the righteous reach out their hands to iniquity.
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Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the depths of the earth.
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Ezekiel 32:21
The strong among the mighty Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell With those who help him: 'They have gone down, They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
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Ezekiel 32:21
The strong among the mighty Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell With those who help him: 'They have gone down, They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
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Isaiah 34:4
All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; All their host shall fall down As the leaf falls from the vine, And as fruit falling from a fig tree.
Luke 10:18
And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Revelation 12:7 - 9
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought.
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Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is lifted up, And you say, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, In the midst of the seas,' Yet you are a man, and not a god, Though you set your heart as the heart of a god
Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
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Daniel 8:10
And it grew up to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the ground, and trampled them.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
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Ezekiel 28:14
You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
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Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
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Isaiah 47:8
Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, Who dwell securely, Who say in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, Nor shall I know the loss of children'.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
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Ezekiel 28:8
They shall throw you down into the Pit, And you shall die the death of the slain In the midst of the seas.
Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Luke 10:15
And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.
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Job 18:19
He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Psalms 21:10
Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth, And their descendants from among the sons of men.
Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Isaiah 1:4
Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.
Isaiah 31:2
Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, And will not call back His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers, And against the help of those who work iniquity.
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
Leviticus 26:39
And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
Isaiah 13:16
Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.
Matthew 23:35
That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.
Isaiah 26:14
They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.
Jeremiah 51:62
"then you shall say, 'O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.'
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1 Kings 14:10
Therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.
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Job 18:19
He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Isaiah 47:9
But these two things shall come to you In a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness Because of the multitude of your sorceries, For the great abundance of your enchantments.
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Isaiah 34:11
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it, Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Zephaniah 2:14
The herds shall lie down in her midst, Every beast of the nation. Both the pelican and the bittern Shall lodge on the capitals of her pillars; Their voice shall sing in the windows; Desolation shall be at the threshold; For He will lay bare the cedar work.
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