Jeremiah 51:41

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'How Sheshach has been captured, the glory of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

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  • Jer 25:26 : 26 And all the kings of the north, near and far, one after another—all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. And after them, the king of Sheshach will drink.
  • Isa 13:19 : 19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
  • Jer 49:25 : 25 How is the city of praise, the city of my joy, not forsaken!
  • Jer 50:23 : 23 How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and broken! Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.
  • Jer 50:46 : 46 At the sound of Babylon’s capture, the earth will quake, and the outcry will be heard among the nations.
  • Jer 51:37 : 37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals, a horror and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.
  • Ezek 27:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you; their kings shudder with horror, their faces troubled.
  • Dan 2:38 : 38 He has placed into your hands control over every person, animal, and bird that dwells under the heavens. Wherever they live, He has given you sovereignty over them all. You are the head of gold.
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 You will be driven away from people, and you will live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven times will pass over you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to whomever He chooses.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 Immediately, what was spoken about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people, ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
  • Dan 5:1-5 : 1 King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine in their presence. 2 Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar commanded that the gold and silver vessels his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem be brought in, so that the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink from them. 3 So the gold vessels taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem were brought in, and the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. 5 At that very moment, the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
  • Rev 18:10-19 : 10 Standing far off because of the fear of her torment, they will say, 'Woe, woe to the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.' 11 The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no one buys their cargo anymore— 12 cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, crimson, all kinds of scented wood, every article of ivory, every article made of the most costly wood, and of bronze, iron, and marble, 13 and cinnamon, spice, incense, ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and human bodies and souls. 14 The fruit your soul longed for has departed from you. All your luxurious and splendid things are lost to you, never to be found again. 15 The merchants who became rich from her will stand far off, out of fear for her torment, weeping and mourning, 16 saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, dressed in fine linen, purple, and crimson, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls!' 17 For in one hour such great wealth has been destroyed!' Every ship captain, all who travel by ship, sailors, and those who earn their living from the sea stood far off, 18 And they cried out as they watched the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What city is like the great city?' 19 And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, in which all who owned ships at sea became rich from her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.'
  • Isa 14:4 : 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How the arrogance has ended!
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.
  • 2 Chr 7:21 : 21 This temple, which was so exalted, will be appalling to every passerby who sees it. They will say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'

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  • Jer 50:22-24
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    22The sound of battle is in the land—a great destruction.

    23How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and broken! Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.

    24I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

  • Jer 51:42-44
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    42The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its roaring waves.

    43Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and barren land where no one lives, and through which no man passes.

    44'I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him, and even the wall of Babylon will fall.

  • Jer 50:45-46
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    45Therefore, hear the counsel of the LORD that He has purposed against Babylon and the plans He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely, the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; surely, their pasture will be appalled at their fate.

    46At the sound of Babylon’s capture, the earth will quake, and the outcry will be heard among the nations.

  • Jer 51:52-55
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    52'Therefore, behold, the days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.'

    53Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, from Me destroyers will come against her, declares the Lord.

    54The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans.

    55For the Lord is laying Babylon waste and silencing her loud noise. Her waves roar like mighty waters; the sound of their tumult resounds.

  • Jer 51:40
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    40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

  • Jer 51:47-49
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    47Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her whole land will be disgraced, and all her slain will fall within her.

    48Then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, because out of the north destroyers will come against her, declares the Lord.

    49Babylon must fall because of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

  • Jer 51:28-38
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    28Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors, all their officials, and the whole land of their dominion.

    29The earth trembles and writhes because the Lord’s plans against Babylon stand firm—to make the land of Babylon a desolate wasteland, without an inhabitant.

    30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their strength has failed; they have become like women. Her dwellings are set on fire; the bars of her gates are broken.

    31One courier runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured.

    32The river crossings have been seized, the marshes have been set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.

    33This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; in a little while her harvest time will come.'

    34Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies. He has rinsed me out.

    35May the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon, says the inhabitant of Zion. May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, says Jerusalem.

    36Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Behold, I will defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountains dry.'

    37Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals, a horror and an object of scorn, without inhabitant.

    38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

  • Jer 50:13
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    13Because of the LORD's wrath, she will not be inhabited but will become completely desolate. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

  • Jer 51:7-8
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    7Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, intoxicating the whole earth. The nations drank her wine; therefore, they have gone mad.

    8Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

  • Isa 13:19
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    19Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

  • Jer 50:15
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    15Raise a shout against her on every side! She has surrendered; her towers have fallen, her walls are torn down. This is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done to others.

  • Jer 50:9-10
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    9For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a coalition of great nations from the north. They will line up for battle against her; from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like skilled warriors; they will not return empty-handed.

    10Chaldea will become plunder; all who plunder her will be satisfied,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 50:1-2
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    1This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through the prophet Jeremiah.

    2Declare among the nations and proclaim it; raise a banner and proclaim it! Do not hide it. Say, 'Babylon has been captured; Bel is put to shame, Marduk is dismayed. Her idols are disgraced, her images shattered.'

  • Jer 51:12-13
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    12Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon! Strengthen the guard, post the watchmen, prepare ambushes, for the Lord has planned and carried out what He purposed against the inhabitants of Babylon.

    13You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

  • Jer 51:57-58
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    57I will make her officials, wise men, governors, commanders, and warriors drunk, and they will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of Hosts.

    58This is what the Lord of Hosts says: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished, and her high gates burned with fire. The peoples labor in vain; the nations exhaust themselves only to fuel the flames.

  • Jer 50:28-30
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    28Listen to the voice of those fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, proclaiming in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

    29Summon archers against Babylon, all who draw the bow. Encamp around her on every side, and let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

    30Therefore, her young men will fall in her streets, and all her soldiers will perish on that day, declares the LORD.

  • Jer 51:4
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    4The slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans, those pierced by the sword in her streets.

  • Isa 14:4
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    4you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How the arrogance has ended!

  • Ezek 26:17
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    17They will take up a lament over you and say to you: 'How you have perished, you who were inhabited by people of the seas, the renowned city, strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread terror among all who lived there.'

  • Isa 21:9
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    9And behold, here comes a chariot of men, with pairs of horsemen. And he answered, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the carved images of her gods are shattered to the ground.'

  • Jer 25:11
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    11This entire land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

  • Jer 51:64
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    64Then you shall say, 'This is how Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I will bring upon her. Her people will grow weary.' This is the end of Jeremiah's words.

  • Jer 50:43
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    43The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, and his hands hang limp. Anguish grips him, pain like that of a woman in labor.