Jeremiah 50:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.

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  • Job 9:4 : 4 He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
  • Dan 5:30-30 : 30 That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
  • Isa 13:11 : 11 And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
  • Isa 21:3-5 : 3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see. 4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. 5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
  • Jer 51:8 : 8 Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.
  • Jer 51:31-39 : 31 One man, running, will give word to another, and one who goes with news will be handing it on to another, to give word to the king of Babylon that his town has been taken from every quarter: 32 And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear. 33 For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come. 34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth. 35 May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say. 36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water. 37 And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it. 38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions. 39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
  • Rev 18:7-8 : 7 As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow. 8 For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

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  • Jer 50:22-23
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    80%

    22 There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

    23 How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

  • Jer 50:25
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    25 From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.

  • Jer 51:12-13
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    12 Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.

    13 O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.

  • Jer 51:41
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    41 How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

  • Ezek 17:20
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    20 My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.

  • Jer 50:28-31
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    28 The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple.

    29 Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.

    30 For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.

    31 See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.

  • Jer 50:13-15
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    13 Because 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.

    14 Put your armies in position against Babylon on every side, all you bowmen; let loose your arrows at her, not keeping any back: for she has done evil against the Lord.

    15 Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.

  • Jer 51:49
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    49 As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.

  • Ezek 12:13
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    13 And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.

  • Job 18:10
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    10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Jer 51:24
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    24 And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.

  • Jer 50:46
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    46 At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.

  • Jer 51:47
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    47 For this cause, truly, the days are coming when I will send punishment on the images of Babylon, and all her land will be shamed, and her dead will be falling down in her.

  • Jer 50:9-10
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    9 For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.

    10 And the wealth of Chaldaea will come into the hands of her attackers: all those who take her wealth will have enough, says the Lord.

  • Jer 50:1-2
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    1 The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

    2 Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.

  • Job 22:10
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    10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • Jer 29:14-15
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    14 I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.

    15 For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon.

  • Isa 22:17
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    17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

  • Jer 40:3
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    3 *** and the Lord has made it come, and has done as he said; because of your sin against the Lord in not giving ear to his voice; and that is why this thing has come on you.

  • Isa 14:4
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    4 That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;

  • Ezek 19:8
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    8 Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.

  • Jer 51:7-8
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    7 Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.

    8 Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

  • Jer 50:18
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    18 So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.

  • Isa 49:24
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    24 Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?

  • Jer 51:32-34
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    32 And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.

    33 For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.

    34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

  • Ezek 21:24
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    24 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your evil-doing come to mind by the uncovering of your wrongdoing, causing your sins to be seen in all your evil-doings; because you have come to mind, you will be taken in them.

  • Jer 51:29
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    29 And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.

  • Jer 51:44
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    44 And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.

  • Jer 29:20
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    20 And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

  • Jer 51:54
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    54 There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:

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    18 And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.

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    4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.

  • Jer 51:56
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    56 For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.

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    11 For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.

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    5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)