Judgment on Babylon
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The word that the LORD spoke a against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
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"Declare among the nations,
Proclaim, and set up a standard;
Proclaim - do not conceal it -
Say, 'Babylon is b taken, c Bel is shamed.
Merodach is broken in pieces;
d Her idols are humiliated,
Her images are broken in pieces.'
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e For out of the north f a nation comes up against her,
Which shall make her land desolate,
And no one shall dwell therein.
They shall move, they shall depart,
Both man and beast.
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"In those days and in that time," says the LORD,
"The children of Israel shall come,
g They and the children of Judah together;
h With continual weeping they shall come,
i And seek the LORD their God.
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They shall ask the way to Zion,
With their faces toward it, saying,
'Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD
In j a perpetual covenant
That will not be forgotten.'
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"My people have been k lost sheep.
Their shepherds have led them l astray;
They have turned them away on m the mountains.
They have gone from mountain to hill;
They have forgotten their resting place.
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All who found them have n devoured them;
And o their adversaries said, p 'We have not offended,
Because they have sinned against the LORD, q the habitation of justice,
The LORD, r the hope of their fathers.'
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"Move s from the midst of Babylon,
Go out of the land of the Chaldeans;
And be like the rams before the flocks.
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t For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
An assembly of great nations from the north country,
And they shall array themselves against her;
From there she shall be captured.
Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior;
u None shall return in vain.
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And Chaldea shall become plunder;
v All who plunder her shall be satisfied," says the LORD.
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"Because w you were glad, because you rejoiced,
You destroyers of My heritage,
Because you have grown fat x like a heifer threshing grain,
And you bellow like bulls,
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Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;
She who bore you shall be ashamed.
Behold, the least of the nations shall be a y wilderness,
A dry land and a desert.
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Because of the wrath of the LORD
She shall not be inhabited,
z But she shall be wholly desolate.
a Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.
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"Put b 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.
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Shout against her all around;
She has c given her hand,
Her foundations have fallen,
d Her walls are thrown down;
For e it is the vengeance of the LORD.
Take vengeance on her.
As she has done, so do to her.
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Cut off the sower from Babylon,
And him who handles the sickle at harvest time.
For fear of the oppressing sword
f Everyone shall turn to his own people,
And everyone shall flee to his own land.
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"Israel is like g scattered sheep;
h The lions have driven him away.
First i the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this j Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones."
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Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
"Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,
As I have punished the king of k Assyria.
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l But I will bring back Israel to his home,
And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan;
His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
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In those days and in that time," says the LORD,
m "The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none;
And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found;
For I will pardon those n whom I preserve.
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"Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,
And against the inhabitants of o Pekod.
Waste and utterly destroy them," says the LORD,
"And do p according to all that I have commanded you.
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q A sound of battle is in the land,
And of great destruction.
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How r the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
I have laid a snare for you;
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You have indeed been s trapped, O Babylon,
And you were not aware;
You have been found and also caught,
Because you have t contended against the LORD.
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The LORD has opened His armory,
And has brought out u the weapons of His indignation;
For this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts
In the land of the Chaldeans.
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Come against her from the farthest border;
Open her storehouses;
Cast her up as heaps of ruins,
And destroy her utterly;
Let nothing of her be left.
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Slay all her v bulls,
Let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them!
For their day has come, the time of w their punishment.
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The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon
x Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God,
The vengeance of His temple.
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"Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them escape.
y Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
z For she has been proud against the LORD,
Against the Holy One of Israel.
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a Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets,
And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD.
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"Behold, I am against you,
O most haughty one!" says the Lord GOD of hosts;
"For your day has come,
The time that I will punish you.
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The most b proud shall stumble and fall,
And no one will raise him up;
c I will kindle a fire in his cities,
And it will devour all around him."
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Thus says the LORD of hosts:
"The children of Israel were oppressed,
Along with the children of Judah;
All who took them captive have held them fast;
They have refused to let them go.
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d Their Redeemer is strong;
e The LORD of hosts is His name.
He will thoroughly plead their f case,
That He may give rest to the land,
And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
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"A sword is against the Chaldeans," says the LORD,
"Against the inhabitants of Babylon,
And g against her princes and h her wise men.
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A sword is i against the soothsayers, and they will be fools.
A sword is against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
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A sword is against their horses,
Against their chariots,
And against all j the mixed peoples who are in her midst;
And k they will become like women.
A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.
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l A drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up.
For it is the land of carved images,
And they are insane with their idols.
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"Therefore m the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals,
And the ostriches shall dwell in it.
n It shall be inhabited no more forever,
Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
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o As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors," says the LORD,
"So no one shall reside there,
Nor son of man p dwell in it.
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"Behold, q a people shall come from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.
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r They shall hold the bow and the lance;
s They are cruel and shall not show mercy.
t Their voice shall roar like the sea;
They shall ride on horses,
Set in array, like a man for the battle,
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.
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"The king of Babylon has u heard the report about them,
And his hands grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in v childbirth.
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"Behold, w he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place of the strong;
But I will make them suddenly run away from her.
And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
For who is like Me?
Who will arraign Me?
And x who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?"
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Therefore hear y the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon,
And His z purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:
a Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
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b At the noise of the taking of Babylon
The earth trembles,
And the cry is heard among the nations.
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Cross References
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Ere...
Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name is called Babel, because the...
2 Kings 17:24
Then the king of Assyria brought people from Ba...
Isaiah 13:1
The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son...
Isaiah 47:1
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughte...
Daniel 1:1
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim kin...
Revelation 14:8
And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is...
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Isaiah 21:9
And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!" Then he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.
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Isaiah 46:1
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle. Your carriages were heavily loaded, A burden to the weary beast.
Jeremiah 51:44
I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed; And the nations shall not stream to him anymore. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
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Jeremiah 43:12
I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment, and he shall go out from there in peace.
Jeremiah 43:13
"He shall also break the sacred pillars of Beth Shemesh that are in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians he shall burn with fire." '"
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Jeremiah 51:48
Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them Shall sing joyously over Babylon; For the plunderers shall come to her from the north," says the LORD.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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Isaiah 13:17
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not regard silver; And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Isaiah 13:18
Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.
Isaiah 13:20
It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
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Ezra 2:1
Now these are the people of the province who ca...
Isaiah 11:12
He will set up a banner for the nations, And wi...
Isaiah 11:13
Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, And the ...
Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall walk wit...
Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, whe...
Jeremiah 33:7
And I will cause the captives of Judah and the ...
Hosea 1:11
Then the children of Judah and the children of ...
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Ezra 3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of the fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this temple was laid before their eyes. Yet many shouted aloud for joy.
Ezra 3:13
So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard afar off.
Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears Shall reap in joy.
Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
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Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They shall fear the LORD and His goodness in the latter days.
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Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah -
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Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have tur...
Ezekiel 34:15
I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie ...
Ezekiel 34:16
"I will seek what was lost and bring back what ...
Matthew 9:36
But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved wi...
Matthew 10:6
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of...
1 Peter 2:25
For you were like sheep going astray, but have ...
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Jeremiah 23:1
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" says the LORD.
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds: "Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
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Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:23
Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, And from the multitude of mountains; Truly, in the LORD our God Is the salvation of Israel.
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Psalms 79:7
For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his dwelling place.
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Jeremiah 40:2
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him: "The LORD your God has pronounced this doom on this place.
Jeremiah 40:3
Now the LORD has brought it, and has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD, and not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come upon you.
Zechariah 11:5
Whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich'; and their shepherds do not pity them.
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Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness to the LORD, The firstfruits of His increase. All that devour him will offend; Disaster will come upon them," says the LORD.'
Daniel 9:16
O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.
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Psalms 90:1
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psalms 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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Psalms 22:4
Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them.
Jeremiah 14:8
O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble, Why should You be like a stranger in the land, And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
Jeremiah 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. "Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain of living waters.
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Isaiah 48:20
Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!...
Jeremiah 51:6
Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one s...
Jeremiah 51:45
My people, go out of the midst of her! And let ...
Zechariah 2:6
Up, up! Flee from the land of the north," says ...
Zechariah 2:7
"Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daugh...
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "...
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Jeremiah 15:14
And I will make you cross over with your enemies Into a land which you do not know; For a fire is kindled in My anger, Which shall burn upon you.
Jeremiah 51:27
Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
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2 Samuel 1:22
From the blood of the slain, From the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan did not turn back, And the sword of Saul did not return empty.
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Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
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Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people; I have profaned My inheritance, And given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.
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Hosea 10:11
Ephraim is a trained heifer That loves to thresh grain; But I harnessed her fair neck, I will make Ephraim pull a plow. Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break his clods.
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Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.
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Jeremiah 25:12
Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
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Jeremiah 49:17
Edom also shall be an astonishment; Everyone who goes by it will be astonished And will hiss at all its plagues.
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Jeremiah 51:2
And I will send winnowers to Babylon, Who shall winnow her and empty her land. For in the day of doom They shall be against her all around.
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1 Chronicles 29:24
All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, submitted themselves to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Ezekiel 17:18
'Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.'"
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Jeremiah 51:58
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire; The people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary.
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Jeremiah 51:6
Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; He shall recompense her.
Jeremiah 51:11
Make the arrows bright! Gather the shields! The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it, Because it is the vengeance of the LORD, The vengeance for His temple.
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Isaiah 13:14
It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land.
Jeremiah 51:9
We would have healed Babylon, But she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country; For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.
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2 Kings 24:10
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2 Kings 24:14
Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
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Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions roared at him, and growled; They made his land waste; His cities are burned, without inhabitant.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, TiglathPile'ser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:9 - 13
Now it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
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2 Kings 24:10 - 14
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2 Kings 25:1 - 7
Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.
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Cross References
Isaiah 10:12
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord ...
Ezekiel 31:3
Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, With fin...
Ezekiel 31:11
Therefore I will deliver it into the hand of th...
Ezekiel 31:12
And aliens, the most terrible of the nations, h...
Nahum 3:7
It shall come to pass that all who look upon yo...
Nahum 3:18
Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; Your...
Nahum 3:19
Your injury has no healing, Your wound is sever...
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Isaiah 65:10
Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, For My people who have sought Me.
Jeremiah 33:12
Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'In this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Ezekiel 34:13
And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country.
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Numbers 23:21
He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him, And the shout of a King is among them.
Isaiah 43:25
I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins.
Jeremiah 31:34
"No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
Micah 7:19
He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.
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Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.
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Ezekiel 23:23
The Babylonians, All the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, All the Assyrians with them, All of them desirable young men, Governors and rulers, Captains and men of renown, All of them riding on horses.
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2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abishai and all his servants,...
2 Kings 18:25
"Have I now come up without the LORD against th...
2 Chronicles 36:23
Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdom...
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against an ungodly nation, And ...
Isaiah 44:28
Who says of Cyrus, ' He is My shepherd, And he ...
Isaiah 48:14
All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who ...
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Jeremiah 51:54
The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans.
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Isaiah 14:6
He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.
Jeremiah 51:20 - 24
You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms.
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Jeremiah 51:8
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.
Jeremiah 51:31
One runner will run to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides.
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
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Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' Or shall your handiwork say, 'He has no hands'?
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Isaiah 13:5
They come from a far country, From the end of heaven - The LORD and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land.
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Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
Isaiah 34:7
The wild oxen shall come down with them, And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust saturated with fatness.
Jeremiah 46:21
Also her mercenaries are in her midst like fat bulls, For they also are turned back, They have fled away together. They did not stand, For the day of their calamity had come upon them, The time of their punishment.
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Psalms 37:13
The Lord laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.
Jeremiah 48:44
He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, And he who gets out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For upon Moab, upon it I will bring The year of their punishment," says the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:7
Doom has come to you, you who dwell in the land; The time has come, A day of trouble is near, And not of rejoicing in the mountains.
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Psalms 149:6 - 9
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand.
Jeremiah 51:10
The LORD has revealed our righteousness. Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
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Psalms 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!
Jeremiah 51:56
Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men are taken. Every one of their bows is broken; For the LORD is the God of recompense, He will surely repay.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you.
Revelation 18:6
Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.
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Isaiah 47:10
"For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, 'No one sees me'; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one else besides me.'
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Isaiah 13:18
Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.
Jeremiah 49:26
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:4
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, And those thrust through in her streets.
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Isaiah 26:5
For He brings down those who dwell on high, The lofty city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He brings it down to the dust.
Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them neither root nor branch.
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Jeremiah 21:14
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings," says the LORD; "I will kindle a fire in its forest, And it shall devour all things around it." '
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Proverbs 23:11
For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.
Isaiah 43:14
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives - The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.
Jeremiah 15:21
"I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible."
Jeremiah 31:11
For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Revelation 18:8
Therefore her plagues will come in one day - death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
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Isaiah 47:4
As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
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Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, Because I have sinned against Him, Until He pleads my case And executes justice for me. He will bring me forth to the light; I will see His righteousness.
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Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
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Isaiah 47:13
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, And the monthly prognosticators Stand up and save you From what shall come upon you.
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk Her princes and wise men, Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 44:25
Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness.
Jeremiah 48:30
I know his wrath," says the LORD, "But it is not right; His lies have made nothing right.
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Jeremiah 25:20
All the mixed multitude, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod).
Ezekiel 30:5
"Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword."
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Jeremiah 51:30
The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They have remained in their strongholds; Their might has failed, They became like women; They have burned her dwelling places, The bars of her gate are broken.
Nahum 3:13
Surely, your people in your midst are women! The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies; Fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
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Isaiah 44:27
Who says to the deep, 'Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers'.
Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
Revelation 16:12
Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.
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Isaiah 13:21
But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there.
Isaiah 13:22
The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged.
Isaiah 34:14
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion; Also the night creature shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest.
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon shall become a heap, A dwelling place for jackals, An astonishment and a hissing, Without an inhabitant.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, "Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
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Isaiah 13:20
It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
Jeremiah 25:12
Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
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Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodo...
Genesis 19:25
So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, al...
Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty ...
Jeremiah 49:18
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And t...
Luke 17:28 - 30
Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: The...
2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in...
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Isaiah 13:20
It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
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Isaiah 13:2 - 5
Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
Jeremiah 6:22
Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people comes from the north country, And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:14
'(For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)'"
Jeremiah 51:27
Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
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Jeremiah 6:23
They will lay hold on bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, As men of war set in array against you, O daughter of Zion.
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Isaiah 13:18
Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.
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Isaiah 5:30
In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.
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Jeremiah 51:31
One runner will run to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides.
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Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report of it; Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, Pain as of a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 49:19 - 21
"Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?"
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Job 41:10
No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?
Jeremiah 49:19
"Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?"
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Psalms 33:11
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations.
Isaiah 14:24
The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand:
Jeremiah 51:10
The LORD has revealed our righteousness. Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 51:11
Make the arrows bright! Gather the shields! The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it, Because it is the vengeance of the LORD, The vengeance for His temple.
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Jeremiah 51:29
And the land will tremble and sorrow; For every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.
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Jeremiah 49:19
"Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?"
Jeremiah 49:20
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Edom, And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
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Revelation 18:9
The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.