Jeremiah 51:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

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  • Nah 3:13 : 13 See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.
  • Lam 2:9 : 9 Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
  • Isa 13:7-8 : 7 For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; 8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.
  • Jer 50:36-37 : 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.
  • Ps 76:5 : 5 Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; 2 I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
  • Amos 1:5 : 5 And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken, and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven, and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the Lord.
  • Rev 18:10 : 10 Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.
  • Jer 48:41 : 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.
  • Ps 107:16 : 16 The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.
  • Ps 147:13 : 13 He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.
  • Jer 51:32 : 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.
  • 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 51:31-33
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    80%

    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.

  • Jer 51:53-58
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    78%

    53 Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

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

    55 For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:

    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.

    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.

    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 50:30
    77%

    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.

  • Jer 50:42-43
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    76%

    42 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

    43 The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Jer 51:29
    75%

    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.

  • Nah 3:13
    74%

    13 See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

  • Jer 50:15
    73%

    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 50:22-23
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    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!

  • Isa 3:25-26
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    73%

    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

    26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

  • Jer 51:3-4
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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.

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

  • 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.

  • Jer 51:41
    72%

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

  • Jer 50:35-37
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    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.

  • Jer 48:41
    72%

    41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong places have been forced, and the hearts of Moab's men of war in that day will be like the heart of a woman in birth-pains.

  • Jer 51:12
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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.

  • Jer 51:37-38
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 51:7-8
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    71%

    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.

  • Isa 13:19
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    19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Jer 50:13
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

  • Jer 50:46
    71%

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

  • Jer 46:5
    71%

    5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

  • Jer 51:64
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 50:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

    26 Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

  • Isa 21:9
    70%

    9 See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.

  • Ezek 30:7
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    7 And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.

  • Jer 51:43-44
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    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.

    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 37:10
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    10 For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.

  • Jer 49:26
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    26 So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.

  • Jer 52:14
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    14 And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

  • Nah 3:10
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    10 But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.

  • Isa 13:16
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    16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.