Jeremiah 51
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Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Israel

Jeremiah 33:24-26 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families …

Jeremiah 46:28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, said the LORD: for I am with you…

Jeremiah 50:4,5,20 In those days, and in that time, said the LORD, the children of Israel …

1 Samuel 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: …

1 Kings 6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake …

Ezra 9:9 For we were slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, …

Psalm 94:14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake …

Isaiah 44:21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I have …

Isaiah 49:14,15 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me…

Isaiah 54:3-11 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and …

Isaiah 62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: …

Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of …

Amos 9:8,9 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I …

Romans 11:1,2 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also …

nor

Zechariah 2:12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and …

Zechariah 12:6,8 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of …

though

Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; …

Jeremiah 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and …

Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, …

Jeremiah 31:37 Thus said the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations …

2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled …

Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man?…

Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah …

Ezekiel 22:24-31 Son of man, say to her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor …

Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has …

Micah 7:18,20 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …

Zephaniah 3:1-4 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!…

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

Flee

Jeremiah 51:9,45,50 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, …

Jeremiah 50:8,28 Remove out of the middle of Babylon, and go forth out of the land …

Isaiah 48:20 Go you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice …

Zechariah 2:6,7 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, said the …

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my …

be not

Genesis 19:15-17 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, …

Numbers 16:26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from …

Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …

1 Timothy 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's …

for this

Jeremiah 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD has raised up …

Jeremiah 27:7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, …

Jeremiah 46:10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, …

Jeremiah 50:8,15,28,31 Remove out of the middle of Babylon, and go forth out of the land …

Deuteronomy 32:25,41,43 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young …

Revelation 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of …

Revelation 18:5,6 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities…

he will render

Jeremiah 25:14,16 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: …

Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

suddenly

Jeremiah 51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! …

Jeremiah 50:2 Declare you among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; …

Isaiah 21:9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. …

Isaiah 47:9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the …

Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, …

Revelation 18:2,8 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great …

howl

Jeremiah 48:20,31 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell you …

Isaiah 13:6,7 Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a …

Ezekiel 27:30-32 And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry …

Ezekiel 30:2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Howl you, Woe …

Daniel 5:24,31 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written…

Revelation 18:9-11 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived …

Revelation 18:17-19 For in one hour so great riches is come to nothing. And every shipmaster, …

take balm

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then …

Jeremiah 30:12-15 For thus said the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous…

Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: …

Nahum 3:19 There is no healing of your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that …

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Make

Jeremiah 46:4,9 Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with …

Jeremiah 50:9,14,25,28,29 For, see, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly …

Isaiah 21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you …

bright [heb] pure
the Lord hath

Jeremiah 51:27,28 Set you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, …

1 Kings 11:14,23 And the LORD stirred up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: …

1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, …

2 Chronicles 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the …

Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the …

Isaiah 10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a whip for him according to the …

Isaiah 13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard …

Isaiah 13:18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall …

Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals …

Isaiah 41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the …

Isaiah 45:1,5 Thus said the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I …

Isaiah 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel …

Revelation 17:16,17 And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the …

the spirit Of Cyaxares king of Media, called `Darius the Mede' in scripture; and Cyrus his nephew, king of persia, presumptive heir of the throne of his uncle.

his device

Jeremiah 51:12,29 Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, …

Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against …

the vengeance

Jeremiah 51:24,35 And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea …

Jeremiah 50:15,28 Shout against her round about: she has given her hand: her foundations …

Psalm 74:3-11 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the …

Psalm 83:3-9 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted …

Habakkuk 2:17-20 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, …

Zechariah 12:2,3 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the people …

Zechariah 14:2,12 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the …

Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

dwellest

Jeremiah 51:36 Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and …

Revelation 17:1,15 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, …

abundant

Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the …

Isaiah 45:3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches …

Habakkuk 2:5-10 Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither …

Revelation 18:11-17 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for …

thine

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets …

Jeremiah 50:27,31 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to …

Genesis 6:18 But with you will I establish my covenant; and you shall come into …

Lamentations 4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is …

Ezekiel 7:2-12 Also, you son of man, thus said the Lord GOD to the land of Israel; …

Daniel 5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your …

Amos 8:2 And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. …

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and …

and the

Habakkuk 2:9-11 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …

Luke 12:19-21 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …

2 Peter 2:3,14,15 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise …

Jude 1:11-13 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily …

Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, …

The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

hath made

Jeremiah 10:12-16 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world …

Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, you have made the heaven and the earth by your …

Genesis 1:1-6 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…

Psalm 107:25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves thereof.

Psalm 146:5,6 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is …

Psalm 148:1-5 Praise you the LORD. Praise you the LORD from the heavens: praise …

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, …

Acts 14:15 And saying, Sirs, why do you these things? We also are men of like …

Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is …

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are …

Colossians 1:16,17 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that …

Hebrews 1:2,3 Has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed …

Revelation 4:11 You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for …

by his wisdom

Psalm 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them …

Psalm 136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures for ever.

Proverbs 3:19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he …

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! …

and hath

Job 9:8 Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Psalm 104:2 Who cover yourself with light as with a garment: who stretch out …

Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sits on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants …

Isaiah 42:5 Thus said God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched …

Isaiah 44:24 Thus said the LORD, your redeemer, and he that formed you from the …

Isaiah 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have …

Isaiah 48:13 My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand …

Isaiah 51:13 And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, …

When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

he uttereth

Jeremiah 10:2,13 Thus said the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not …

Job 37:2-11 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes …

Job 40:9 Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?

Psalm 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his …

Psalm 29:3-10 The voice of the LORD is on the waters: the God of glory thunders: …

Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, …

Psalm 68:33 To him that rides on the heavens of heavens, which were of old; see, …

Psalm 104:7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

Ezekiel 10:5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer …

there is

Job 36:26-33 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number …

Job 37:13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

Job 38:34-38 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters …

Psalm 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes …

Amos 9:7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? …

multitude. or, noise
and he causeth

Psalm 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes …

bringeth

Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle …

Exodus 10:13,19 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the …

Exodus 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused …

Job 38:22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen …

Psalm 78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he …

Psalm 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes …

Psalm 147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, …

Jonah 1:4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a …

Matthew 8:26,27 And he said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? …

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

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And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

ye up

Jeremiah 51:12 Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, …

Jeremiah 6:1 O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the …

Jeremiah 50:2,41 Declare you among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; …

Isaiah 13:2-5 Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, …

Isaiah 18:3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see …

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …

Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the …

prepare

Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: …

Ararat Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespout, part of the country being called Ascania by Homer, Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus, king of lydia, (B.C.

Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of …

Ashchenaz

Genesis 10:3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

Ashkenaz

1 Chronicles 1:6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

cause

Jeremiah 51:14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill …

Jeremiah 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, said the LORD, though it cannot be …

Jeremiah 50:41,42 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and …

Judges 6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came …

Joel 2:2,3 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick …

Nahum 3:15-17 There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it …

Revelation 9:7-11 And the shapes of the locusts were like to horses prepared to battle; …

After Cyrus had been the instrument in the hands of God of taking Babylon, he marched against Tomyris, queen of the Massagetae, a Scythian nation, and totally defeated. (B.C.

Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

The mighty Accordingly, the Babylonians, after the loss of a battle or two, never recovered their courage to the face the enemy in the field, they retired within their walls; and the first time Cyrus came with his army before the place he could not provoke them to venture forth, though he challenged the king to fight a duel with him; and the last time he came he consulted with his officers respecting the best mode of carrying on the siege `since,' said he, `they do not come out to fight.'

Jeremiah 51:32,57 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned …

Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised…

Jeremiah 50:36,37 A sword is on the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is on her mighty …

Psalm 76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none …

Isaiah 13:7,8 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt…

Isaiah 19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like to women: and it shall be afraid …

Nahum 3:13 Behold, your people in the middle of you are women: the gates of …

Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas …

her bars

Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is on the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is on her mighty …

Psalm 107:16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

Psalm 147:13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your …

Isaiah 45:1,2 Thus said the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I …

Lamentations 2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her …

Amos 1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant …

Nahum 3:13 Behold, your people in the middle of you are women: the gates of …

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Sheshach Sheshach was probably an idol worshipped at babylon, from which the city derived this name; and the festival which was held when the city was taken, when they were heated with wine, was perhaps observed in honour of it.

Jeremiah 25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and …

Daniel 5:1-3 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, …

the praise

Jeremiah 49:25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how …

Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, …

Isaiah 14:4 That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, …

Daniel 2:38 And wherever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and …

Daniel 4:22,30 It is you, O king, that are grown and become strong: for your greatness …

Daniel 5:4,5 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of …

Revelation 18:10-19 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas …

an astonishment

Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an …

Jeremiah 50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the …

Deuteronomy 28:37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among …

2 Chronicles 7:21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every …

Ezekiel 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at you, and …

The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

escaped

Jeremiah 51:6,45 Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: …

Jeremiah 31:21 Set you up markers, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the …

Jeremiah 44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the …

Jeremiah 50:8 Remove out of the middle of Babylon, and go forth out of the land …

Isaiah 48:20 Go you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice …

Isaiah 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing …

Isaiah 52:2,11,12 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose …

Zechariah 2:7-9 Deliver yourself, O Zion, that dwell with the daughter of Babylon…

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my …

remember

Jeremiah 29:12-14 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I …

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find …

Deuteronomy 30:1-4 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come on you, …

Ezra 1:3-5 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and …

Nehemiah 1:2-4 That Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men of Judah; …

Nehemiah 2:3-5 And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not …

Psalm 102:13,14 You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion: for the time to favor her, …

Psalm 137:5,6 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning…

Daniel 9:2,3,16-19 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number …

Jerusalem

Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

are confounded

Jeremiah 3:22-25 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. …

Jeremiah 31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was …

Psalm 74:18-21 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the …

Psalm 79:4,12 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to …

Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us: for we are exceedingly …

Psalm 137:1-3 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we …

Lamentations 2:15-17 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Ezekiel 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field…

shame

Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have …

Jeremiah 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they …

Psalm 44:13-16 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to …

Psalm 69:7-13 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face…

Psalm 71:13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; …

Psalm 109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves …

Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall …

Micah 7:10 Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her …

for strangers

Jeremiah 52:13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the …

Psalm 74:3-7 Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the …

Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple …

Lamentations 1:10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: …

Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the …

Ezekiel 7:21,22 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and …

Ezekiel 9:7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the …

Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will …

Daniel 8:11-14 Yes, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by …

Daniel 9:26,27 And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but …

Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary …

Revelation 11:1,2 And there was given me a reed like to a rod: and the angel stood, …

Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.
A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

the spoiler

Jeremiah 51:48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing …

Jeremiah 50:10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, …

Isaiah 21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals …

Habakkuk 2:8 Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people …

Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these shall hate the …

her mighty

Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have declined to fight, they have remained …

Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is on the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is on her mighty …

every

Genesis 49:24 But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made …

1 Samuel 2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are …

Psalm 37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 46:9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, …

Psalm 76:3 There broke he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, …

Ezekiel 39:3,9 And I will smite your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your …

the Lord

Jeremiah 51:6,24 Flee out of the middle of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: …

Jeremiah 50:28,29 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, …

Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in …

Psalm 94:1,2 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, …

Psalm 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, …

Isaiah 34:8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompenses …

Isaiah 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, …

Isaiah 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his …

2 Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation …

Revelation 18:5,6,20 For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities…

Revelation 19:2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great …

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;
Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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