Jeremiah 50:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.

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  • Jer 51:43 : 43 Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.
  • Jer 51:62-64 : 62 And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever. 63 And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates: 64 And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
  • Rev 17:5 : 5 And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.
  • Rev 18:21-23 : 21 And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all. 22 And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you; 23 And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.
  • Isa 13:20-22 : 20 People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks. 21 But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there. 22 And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.
  • Isa 14:22 : 22 For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.
  • Isa 23:13 : 13 ...
  • Jer 25:12 : 12 And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.
  • Jer 25:26 : 26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
  • Jer 49:2 : 2 Because of this, see, the days are coming when I will have a cry of war sounded against Rabbah, the town of the children of Ammon; it will become a waste of broken walls, and her daughter-towns will be burned with fire: then Israel will take the heritage of those who took his heritage, says the Lord.
  • Jer 50:35-40 : 35 A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men. 36 A sword is on the men of pride, and they will become foolish: a sword is on her men of war, and they will be broken. 37 A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers. 38 A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods. 39 For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation. 40 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.
  • Jer 51:25-26 : 25 See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain. 26 And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.

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  • Jer 50:13
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    13Because of the wrath of the Lord no one will be living in it, and it will be quite unpeopled: everyone who goes by Babylon will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.

  • Ezek 16:54
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    54So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you.

  • Jer 15:9
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    9The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.

  • Isa 51:18-20
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    18She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.

    19These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

    20Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

  • Ezek 16:44-45
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    44See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

    45You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • Jer 22:26
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    26I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.

  • Jer 50:11
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    11Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;

  • Hos 2:3
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    3For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

  • Hos 10:14
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    14So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.

  • Ezek 19:10
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    10Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • Isa 49:19
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    19For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

  • Jer 18:16
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    16Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

  • Jer 22:22-23
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    22All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.

    23O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

  • Isa 54:4
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    4Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

  • Jer 23:40
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    40And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

  • Jer 49:4
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    4Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?

  • Hos 4:5
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    5You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.

  • Deut 28:57
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    57And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Jer 46:24
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    24The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.

  • Mic 4:10-11
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    10Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.

    11And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

  • Nah 3:5
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    5See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.

  • Deut 28:37
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    37And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.

  • Isa 49:17
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    17Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.

  • Ezek 19:2
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    2What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

  • Ezek 22:5
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    5Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.

  • Isa 1:7
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    7Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

  • Ezek 16:57-58
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    57Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.

    58The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.

  • Jer 49:15
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    15For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

  • Isa 49:23
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    23And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

  • Isa 1:29
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    29For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Jer 13:26
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    26So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

  • Jer 51:43
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    43Her towns have become a waste, a dry and unwatered land, where no man has his living-place and no son of man goes by.

  • Isa 30:5
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    5For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

  • Jer 50:3
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    3For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.

  • Isa 60:15
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    15And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.

  • Mic 7:16
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    16The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

  • Jer 48:13
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    13And Moab will be shamed on account of Chemosh, as the children of Israel were shamed on account of Beth-el their hope.

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    21Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

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    38A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.

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    5No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.

  • Lev 26:32
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    32And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.