Jeremiah 51:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.

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  • 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.

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  • Jer 51:20-22
    3 verses
    88%

    20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

    21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;

    22 With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;

  • Jer 51:24
    78%

    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.

  • Nah 1:13
    75%

    13 And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

  • Jer 51:40
    75%

    40 I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.

  • Jer 50:23
    74%

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

  • Jer 23:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.

    2 So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.

  • Zech 11:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14 Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.

    15 And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

    16 For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

  • Zech 13:7
    73%

    7 Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

  • Jer 45:4
    73%

    4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

  • Isa 30:14
    73%

    14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

  • Jer 28:2
    73%

    2 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.

  • Hag 2:22
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    22 Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

  • Zech 11:10-11
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    73%

    10 And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

    11 And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.

  • Jer 25:34
    73%

    34 Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

  • Jer 28:4
    73%

    4 And I will let Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, come back to this place, with all the prisoners of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord: for I will have the yoke of the king of Babylon broken.

  • Jer 19:10-11
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    73%

    10 Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,

    11 And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.

  • Jer 50:44-45
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    72%

    44 See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make them go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will keep his place before me?

    45 So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.

  • Ezek 23:46
    72%

    46 For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.

  • Isa 14:25
    72%

    25 To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

  • Jer 22:7
    72%

    7 And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Jer 51:47
    72%

    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.

  • Mic 5:11
    72%

    11 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • Jer 25:36
    72%

    36 A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.

  • Jer 30:8
    72%

    8 For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:

  • Ezek 16:39
    72%

    39 I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

  • Ezek 29:8
    72%

    8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.

  • Jer 13:14
    71%

    14 I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

  • Isa 14:5
    71%

    5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;

  • Amos 4:3
    71%

    3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.

  • Jer 51:52
    71%

    52 For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.

  • Jer 18:7
    71%

    7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

  • Zech 11:6
    71%

    6 For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

  • Ezek 21:31
    71%

    31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Amos 2:3
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    3 And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.

  • Jer 51:58
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    58 The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.

  • Jer 50:17
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    17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

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    3 Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse.

  • Jer 23:4
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    4 And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.

  • Ps 2:9
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    9 They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

  • Lev 26:26
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    26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

  • Isa 41:15
    71%

    15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.

  • Job 34:24
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    24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.