The Utter Destruction of Babylon

Jeremiah 51

1 Thus says the LORD:
"Behold, I will raise up against a Babylon,
Against those who dwell in 1 Leb Kamai, 2
b A destroying wind. 2 And I will send c winnowers to Babylon,
Who shall winnow her and empty her land.
d For in the day of doom
They shall be against her all around. 3 Against her e let the archer bend his bow,
And lift himself up against her in his armor.
Do not spare her young men;
f Utterly destroy all her army. 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
g And those thrust through in her streets. 5 For Israel is h not forsaken, nor Judah,
By his God, the LORD of hosts,
Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel."

6 i Flee from the midst of Babylon,
And every one save his life!
Do not be cut off in her iniquity,
For j this is the time of the LORD's vengeance;
k He shall recompense her. 7 l Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
m The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations n are deranged. 8 Babylon has suddenly o fallen and been destroyed.
p Wail for her!
q Take balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed. 9 We would have healed Babylon,
But she is not healed.
Forsake her, and r let us go everyone to his own country;
s For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies. 10 The LORD has t revealed our righteousness.
Come and let us u declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

11 v Make 3 the arrows bright!
Gather the shields!
w The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.
x For His plan is against Babylon to destroy it,
Because it is y the vengeance of the LORD,
The vengeance for His temple.

12 z Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon;
Make the guard strong,
Set up the watchmen,
Prepare the ambushes.
For the LORD has both devised and done
What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. 13 a O you who dwell by many waters,
Abundant in treasures,
Your end has come,
The measure of your covetousness. 14 b The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself:
"Surely I will fill you with men, c as with locusts,
And they shall lift d up a shout against you."

15 e He has made the earth by His power;
He has established the world by His wisdom,
And f stretched out the heaven by His understanding. 16 When He utters His voice -
There is a multitude of waters in the heavens:
g "He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
He makes lightnings for the rain;
He brings the wind out of His treasuries." 4 17 h Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge;
Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image;
i For his molded image is falsehood,
And there is no breath in them. 18 They are futile, a work of errors;
In the time of their punishment they shall perish. 19 The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
For He is the Maker of all things;
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance.
The LORD of hosts is His name.

20 "You j are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms; 21 With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; 22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;
With you I will break in pieces k old and young;
With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden; 23 With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;
With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;
And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.

24 "And l I will repay Babylon
And all the inhabitants of Chaldea
For all the evil they have done
In Zion in your sight," says the LORD.

25 "Behold, I am against you, m O destroying mountain,
Who destroys all the earth," says the LORD.
"And I will stretch out My hand against you,
Roll you down from the rocks,
n And make you a burnt mountain. 26 They shall not take from you a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for a foundation,
o But you shall be desolate forever," says the LORD.

27 p Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
q Prepare the nations against her,
Call r the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts. 28 Prepare against her the nations,
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion. 29 And the land will tremble and sorrow;
For every s purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon,
t To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant. 30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
u They became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
v The bars of her gate are broken. 31 w 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; 32 x The passages are blocked,
The reeds they have burned with fire,
And the men of war are terrified. 33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel:
"The daughter of Babylon is y like a threshing floor
When z it is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
a And the time of her harvest will come."

34 "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has b devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an c empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out. 35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,"
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
"And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!"
Jerusalem will say. 36 Therefore thus says the LORD:
"Behold, d I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
e I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. 37 f Babylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
g An astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.

38 They shall roar together like lions,
They shall growl like lions' whelps. 39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
h I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake," says the LORD. 40 "I will bring them down
Like lambs to the slaughter,
Like rams with male goats.

41 "Oh, how i Sheshach 5 6 is taken!
Oh, how j the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations! 42 k The sea has come up over Babylon;
She is covered with the multitude of its waves. 43 l Her cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where m no one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes. 44 I will punish n Bel 7 in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, o the wall of Babylon shall fall.

45 "My p people, go out of the midst of her!
And let everyone deliver 8 himself from the fierce anger of the LORD. 46 And lest your heart faint,
And you fear q for the rumor that will be heard in the land
(A rumor will come one year,
And after that, in another year
A rumor will come,
And violence in the land,
Ruler against ruler),

47 Therefore behold, the days are coming
That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;
Her whole land shall be ashamed,
And all her slain shall fall in her midst. 48 Then r the heavens and the earth and all that is in them
Shall sing joyously over Babylon;
s For the plunderers shall come to her from the north," says the LORD. 49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall,
So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.

50 t You who have escaped the sword,
Get away! Do not stand still!
u Remember the LORD afar off,
And let Jerusalem come to your mind. 51 v We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.
Shame has covered our faces,
For strangers w have come into the 9 sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

52 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD,
"That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan. 53 x Though Babylon were to 10 mount up to heaven,
And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,
Yet from Me plunderers would come to her," says the LORD.

54 y The sound of a cry comes from Babylon,
And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans, 55 Because the LORD is plundering Babylon
And silencing her loud voice,
Though her waves roar like great waters,
And the noise of their voice is uttered, 56 Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon,
And her mighty men are taken.
Every one of their bows is broken;
z For the LORD is the God of recompense,
He will surely repay. 57 "And I will make drunk
Her princes and a wise men,
Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.
And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake," says b the King,
Whose name is the LORD of hosts.

58 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
"The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly c broken, 11
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
d The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary."

59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of e Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster. 60 So Jeremiah f wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words, 62 "then you shall say, 'O LORD, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that g none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.' 63 "Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, h that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates.

64 "Then you shall say, 'Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.' " Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:1
    Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called Tender and delicate.
    Jeremiah 50:1
    The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:7
    "Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." '"
    Jeremiah 4:11
    At that time it will be said To this people and to Jerusalem, "A dry wind of the desolate heights blows in the wilderness Toward the daughter of My people - Not to fan or to cleanse -
    Hosea 13:15
    Though he is fruitful among his brethren, An east wind shall come; The wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness. Then his spring shall become dry, And his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 41:16
    You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them; You shall rejoice in the LORD, And glory in the Holy One of Israel.
    Jeremiah 15:7
    And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children; I will destroy My people, Since they do not return from their ways.
    Matthew 3:12
    "His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:14
    Put 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.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:14
    Put 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
    Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all she has done, do to her; For she has been proud against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:21
    Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it, And against the inhabitants of Pekod. Waste and utterly destroy them," says the LORD, "And do according to all that I have commanded you.
  7. Cross References
    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 50:30
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:37
    A sword is against their horses, Against their chariots, And against all the mixed peoples who are in her midst; And they will become like women. A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 54:7
    For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.
    Isaiah 54:8
    With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.
    Jeremiah 33:24 - 26
    Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.
    Jeremiah 46:28
    Do not fear, O Jacob My servant," says the LORD, "For I am with you; For I will make a complete end of all the nations To which I have driven you, But I will not make a complete end of you. I will rightly correct you, For I will not leave you wholly unpunished.
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:8
    Move from the midst of Babylon, Go out of the land of the Chaldeans; And be like the rams before the flocks.
    Revelation 18:4
    And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.
  11. Cross References
    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.)'"
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:15
    For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: "Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
    Habakkuk 2:16
    You are filled with shame instead of glory. You also - drink! And be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the LORD's right hand will be turned against you, And utter shame will be on your glory.
    Revelation 17:4
    The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
  13. Cross References
    Revelation 14:8
    And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
  14. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:16
    "And they will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them."
  15. Cross References
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:2
    "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim - do not conceal it - Say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.'
    Revelation 14:8
    And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
    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!
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 48:20
    Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!
    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.
    Revelation 18:11
    And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore:
    Revelation 18:19
    "They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.'
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:11
    Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt; In vain you will use many medicines; You shall not be cured.
  18. Cross References
    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 46:16
    He made many fall; Yes, one fell upon another. And they said, 'Arise! Let us go back to our own people And to the land of our nativity From the oppressing sword.
    Jeremiah 50:16
    Cut off the sower from Babylon, And him who handles the sickle at harvest time. For fear of the oppressing sword Everyone shall turn to his own people, And everyone shall flee to his own land.
  19. Cross References
    Ezra 9:6
    And I said: "O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
    Revelation 18:5
    For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 37:6
    He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday.
    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.
  21. Cross References
    Isaiah 40:2
    "Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD's hand Double for all her sins."
    Jeremiah 50:28
    The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, The vengeance of His temple.
  22. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:4
    Harness the horses, And mount up, you horsemen! Stand forth with your helmets, Polish the spears, Put on the armor!
    Jeremiah 46:9
    Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots! And let the mighty men come forth: The Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield, And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.
    Joel 3:9
    Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up.
    Joel 3:10
    Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'
  23. Cross References
    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.
  24. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:45
    Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon, And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
  25. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:28
    The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, The vengeance of His temple.
  26. Cross References
    Nahum 2:1
    He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.
    Nahum 3:14
    Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!
  27. Cross References
    Revelation 17:1
    Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters.
    Revelation 17:15
    Then he said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.
  28. Cross References
    Jeremiah 49:13
    "For I have sworn by Myself," says the LORD, "that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes."
    Amos 6:8
    The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it.
  29. Cross References
    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.
    Nahum 3:15
    There the fire will devour you, The sword will cut you off; It will eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many - like the locust! Make yourself many - like the swarming locusts!
  30. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.
  31. Cross References
    Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
    Genesis 1:6
    Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
    Jeremiah 10:12 - 16
    He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom, And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.
  32. Cross References
    Job 9:8
    He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea.
    Psalms 104:2
    Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
    Isaiah 40:22
    It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
  33. Cross References
    Psalms 135:7
    He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
    Jeremiah 10:13
    When He utters His voice, There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: "And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
  34. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:18 - 20
    They do not know nor understand; For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, And their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
    Jeremiah 10:14
    Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; For his molded image is falsehood, And there is no breath in them.
  35. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:2
    "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim - do not conceal it - Say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.'
  36. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:5
    Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
    Isaiah 10:15
    Shall the ax boast itself against him who chops with it? Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it? As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up, Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood!
    Jeremiah 50:23
    How 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.
  37. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:17
    Therefore He brought 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, on the aged or the weak; He gave them all into his hand.
    Isaiah 13:15
    Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
    Isaiah 13:16
    Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.
  38. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.
    Jeremiah 50:29
    Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all she has done, do to her; For she has been proud against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.
  39. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:2
    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.
    Zechariah 4:7
    'Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" '"
  40. Cross References
    Revelation 8:8
    Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
  41. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:26
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:40
    As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the LORD, " So no one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it.
  42. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:2
    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 50:2
    "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim - do not conceal it - Say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.'
    Jeremiah 51:12
    Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon; Make the guard strong, Set up the watchmen, Prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both devised and done What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
  43. Cross References
    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.)'"
  44. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:41
    Behold, a people shall come from the north, And a great nation and many kings Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.
    Jeremiah 50:42
    They shall hold the bow and the lance; They are cruel and shall not show mercy. 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.
  45. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:45
    Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon, And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
  46. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty ...
    Isaiah 13:20
    It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be sett...
    Isaiah 47:11
    Therefore evil shall come upon you; You shall n...
    Jeremiah 50:13
    Because of the wrath of the LORD She shall not ...
    Jeremiah 51:26
    They shall not take from you a stone for a corn...
    Jeremiah 51:43
    Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a w...
  47. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:16
    In that day Egypt will be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He waves over it.
    Jeremiah 48:41
    Kerioth is taken, And the strongholds are surprised; The mighty men's hearts in Moab on that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
  48. Cross References
    Isaiah 45:1
    Thus says the LORD to His anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held - To subdue nations before him And loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that the gates will not be shut:
    Isaiah 45:2
    I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron.
    Lamentations 2:9
    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The Law is no more, And her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
    Amos 1:5
    I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven, And the one who holds the scepter from Beth Eden. The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir," Says the LORD.
    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.
  49. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:24
    You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you were not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the LORD.
  50. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:38
    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.
  51. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:10
    Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I have declared to you.
    Daniel 2:35
    Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
    Amos 1:3
    Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
    Micah 4:13
    "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hooves bronze; You shall beat in pieces many peoples; I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth."
  52. Cross References
    Isaiah 41:15
    Behold, I will make you into a new threshing sledge with sharp teeth; You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, And make the hills like chaff.
    Habakkuk 3:12
    You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger.
  53. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:5
    It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, And reaps the heads with his arm; It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain In the Valley of Rephaim.
    Hosea 6:11
    Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people.
    Joel 3:13
    Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, The vats overflow - For their wickedness is great.
    Revelation 14:15
    And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
  54. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:17
    "Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones."
  55. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:1 - 3
    Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
  56. Cross References
    Psalms 140:12
    I know that the LORD will maintain The cause of the afflicted, And justice for the poor.
    Jeremiah 50:34
    Their Redeemer is strong; The LORD of hosts is His name. He will thoroughly plead their case, That He may give rest to the land, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
  57. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:38
    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.
  58. Cross References
    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.
    Jeremiah 50:39
    Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals, And the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forever, Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
    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!
  59. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:9
    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD, 'and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
    Jeremiah 25:11
    And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
  60. Cross References
    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.
  61. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:26
    All the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. Also the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
  62. 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.
    Jeremiah 49:25
    Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
    Daniel 4:30
    The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?
  63. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:7
    Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them The waters of the River, strong and mighty - The king of Assyria and all his glory; He will go up over all his channels And go over all his banks.
    Isaiah 8:8
    He will pass through Judah, He will overflow and pass over, He will reach up to the neck; And the stretching out of his wings Will fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel.
    Jeremiah 51:55
    Because the LORD is plundering Babylon And silencing her loud voice, Though her waves roar like great waters, And the noise of their voice is uttered.
    Daniel 9:26
    And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
  64. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:39
    Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals, And the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forever, Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
    Jeremiah 50:40
    As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the LORD, " So no one shall reside there, Nor son of man dwell in it.
  65. Cross References
    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.
  66. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:2
    "Declare among the nations, Proclaim, and set up a standard; Proclaim - do not conceal it - Say, 'Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is broken in pieces; Her idols are humiliated, Her images are broken in pieces.'
    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.
  67. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.
  68. Cross References
    Isaiah 48:20
    Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!
    Jeremiah 50:8
    Move from the midst of Babylon, Go out of the land of the Chaldeans; And be like the rams before the flocks.
    Jeremiah 50:28
    The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon Declares in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, The vengeance of His temple.
    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.
    Revelation 18:4
    And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.
  69. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:7
    "Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." '"
    Isaiah 13:3 - 5
    I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger - Those who rejoice in My exaltation.
  70. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:23
    Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth; Break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And glorified Himself in Israel.
    Isaiah 48:20
    Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, Declare, proclaim this, Utter it to the end of the earth; Say, "The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!
    Isaiah 49:13
    Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, And will have mercy on His afflicted.
    Revelation 18:20
    "Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!"
  71. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:3
    For out of the north 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.
    Jeremiah 50:41
    Behold, a people shall come from the north, And a great nation and many kings Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.
  72. Cross References
    Jeremiah 44:28
    Yet a small number who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs.
  73. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:29 - 31
    But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
    Ezekiel 6:9
    Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.
  74. Cross References
    Psalms 44:15
    My dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has covered me.
    Psalms 79:4
    We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.
  75. Cross References
    Psalms 74:3 - 8
    Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations. The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
    Jeremiah 52:13
    He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.
    Lamentations 1:10
    The adversary has spread his hand Over all her pleasant things; For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, Those whom You commanded Not to enter Your assembly.
  76. Cross References
    Genesis 11:4
    And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a ...
    Job 20:6
    Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens...
    Psalms 139:8 - 10
    If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I ma...
    Isaiah 14:12 - 14
    How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son ...
    Jeremiah 49:16
    Your fierceness has deceived you, The pride of ...
    Amos 9:2
    Though they dig into hell, From there My hand s...
  77. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:22
    A sound of battle is in the land, And of great destruction.
  78. Cross References
    Psalms 94:1
    O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs - O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
    Jeremiah 50:29
    Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all she has done, do to her; For she has been proud against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.
  79. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:35
    A sword is against the Chaldeans," says the LORD, "Against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against her princes and her wise men.
  80. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:18
    As I live," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts, "Surely as Tabor is among the mountains And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.
    Jeremiah 48:15
    Moab is plundered and gone up from her cities; Her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter," says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts.
  81. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:15
    Shout against her all around; She has given her hand, Her foundations have fallen, Her walls are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, so do to her.
  82. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:13
    Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain?
  83. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:12
    And I gave the purchase deed to Baruch the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the purchase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.
  84. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:8
    Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forever and ever:
    Jeremiah 36:2
    Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.
  85. Cross References
    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.
    Isaiah 14:22
    For I will rise up against them," says the LORD of hosts, "And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity," says the LORD.
    Isaiah 14:23
    I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of hosts.
    Jeremiah 50:3
    For out of the north 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.
    Jeremiah 50:39
    Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals, And the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forever, Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
  86. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:10
    Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you.
    Jeremiah 19:11
    And say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury.
    Revelation 18:21
    Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore.
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