Jeremiah 49:21

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The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall. Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba.

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  • Jer 50:46 : 46 The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”
  • Ezek 21:16 : 16 Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.
  • Ezek 26:15-18 : 15 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst! 16 All the princes of the sea will vacate their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you. 17 They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! 18 Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’
  • Ezek 32:10 : 10 I will shock many peoples with you, and their kings will shiver with horror because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.
  • Rev 18:10 : 10 They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,“Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!”
  • Isa 14:4-9 : 4 you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words:“Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased! 5 The LORD has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers. 6 It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows. It angrily ruled over nations, oppressing them without restraint. 7 The whole earth rests and is quiet; they break into song. 8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,‘Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ 9 Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones. 10 All of them respond to you, saying:‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us! 11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you. 12 Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations! 13 You said to yourself,“I will climb up to the sky. Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. I will rule on the mountain of assembly on the remote slopes of Zaphon. 14 I will climb up to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High!” 15 But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the Pit.

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  • Jer 50:46
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    46The people of the earth will quake when they hear Babylon has been captured. Her cries of anguish will be heard by the other nations.”

  • Jer 49:20
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    20So listen to what I, the LORD, have planned against Edom, what I intend to do to the people who live in Teman. Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.

  • Jer 49:16-17
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    16The terror you inspire in others and the arrogance of your heart have deceived you. You may make your home in the clefts of the rocks; you may occupy the highest places in the hills. But even if you made your home where the eagles nest, I would bring you down from there,” says the LORD.

    17“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

  • Isa 24:18-20
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    18The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.

    19The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.

    20The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.

  • Jer 49:22-23
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    22Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings, a nation will soar up and swoop down on Bozrah. At that time the soldiers of Edom will be as fearful as a woman in labor.”

    23Judgment Against Damascus The LORD spoke about Damascus.“The people of Hamath and Arpad will be dismayed because they have heard bad news. Their courage will melt away because of worry. Their hearts will not be able to rest.

  • Ezek 26:18
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    18Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

  • Ezek 38:20
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    20The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

  • Ezek 26:15
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    15“This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

  • Exod 15:15
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    15Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified, trembling will seize the leaders of Moab, and the inhabitants of Canaan will shake.

  • Isa 21:1
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    1The Lord Will Judge Babylon This is an oracle about the wilderness by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the wilderness, from a land that is feared.

  • Isa 2:21
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    21so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Jer 46:12
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    12The nations have heard of your shameful defeat. Your cries of distress fill the earth. One soldier has stumbled over another and both of them have fallen down defeated.”

  • Ps 114:3
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    3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.

  • Amos 8:8
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    8Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.

  • Jer 51:49
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    49“Babylon must fall because of the Israelites she has killed, just as the earth’s mortally wounded fell because of Babylon.

  • Obad 1:9
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    9Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain!

  • Jer 48:3-4
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    3Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim,‘Oh, the ruin and great destruction!’

    4“Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress.

  • Num 21:14
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    14This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,“Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon

  • Ezek 27:30
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    30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

  • Job 37:1
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    1At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

  • Isa 24:14
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    14They lift their voices and shout joyfully; they praise the majesty of the LORD in the west.

  • Ezek 27:34-35
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    34Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

    35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.

  • Jer 50:22
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    22The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.

  • Ps 114:7
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    7Tremble, O earth, before the Lord– before the God of Jacob,

  • Jer 51:54-55
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    54Cries of anguish will come from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.

    55For the LORD is ready to destroy Babylon, and put an end to her loud noise. Their waves will roar like turbulent waters. They will make a deafening noise.

  • Isa 17:12
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    12Beware, you many nations massing together, those who make a commotion as loud as the roaring of the sea’s waves. Beware, you people making such an uproar, those who make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves.

  • Ps 46:3
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    3when its waves crash and foam, and the mountains shake before the surging sea.(Selah)

  • Isa 15:8
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    8Indeed, the cries of distress echo throughout Moabite territory; their wailing can be heard in Eglaim and Beer Elim.

  • Jer 51:42
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    42The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude of its waves.

  • Jer 49:8
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    8Turn and flee! Take up refuge in remote places, you people who live in Dedan. For I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. I have decided it is time for me to punish them.

  • Exod 15:5
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    5The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.

  • Jer 46:17
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    17There at home they will say,‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is just a big noise! He has let the most opportune moment pass by.’

  • Ps 18:7
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    7The earth heaved and shook; the roots of the mountains trembled; they heaved because he was angry.

  • Jer 25:30
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    30“Then, Jeremiah, make the following prophecy against them:‘Like a lion about to attack, the LORD will roar from the heights of heaven; from his holy dwelling on high he will roar loudly. He will roar mightily against his land. He will shout in triumph like those stomping juice from the grapes against all those who live on the earth.

  • Ps 98:7
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    7Let the sea and everything in it shout, along with the world and those who live in it!

  • Ps 46:6
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    6Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown. God gives a shout, the earth dissolves.

  • Hab 3:7
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    7I saw the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian were shaking.

  • Deut 33:19
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    19They will summon peoples to the mountain, there they will sacrifice proper sacrifices; for they will enjoy the abundance of the seas, and the hidden treasures of the shores.