Jeremiah 50:24

World English Bible (2000)

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

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  • Job 9:4 : 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
  • Dan 5:30-31 : 30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain. 31 Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
  • Job 40:2 : 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
  • Job 40:9 : 9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
  • Isa 13:11 : 11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.
  • Isa 21:3-5 : 3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see. 4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
  • Isa 45:9 : 9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker-- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
  • Jer 51:8 : 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
  • Jer 51:31-39 : 31 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: 32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened. 33 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. 37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. 38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs. 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 51:57 : 57 I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
  • Rev 18:7-8 : 7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.' 8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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    22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

    23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

  • Jer 50:25
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    25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.

  • Jer 51:12-13
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    12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

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

  • Jer 51:41
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    41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

  • Ezek 17:20
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    20 I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

  • Jer 50:28-31
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    28 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

    29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

    30 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.

    31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

  • Jer 50:13-15
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    13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

    14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.

    15 Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.

  • Jer 51:49
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    49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

  • Ezek 12:13
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    13 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

  • Job 18:10
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    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

  • Jer 51:24
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    24 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 50:46
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    46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.

  • Jer 51:47
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    47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

  • Jer 50:9-10
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    9 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.

    10 Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 50:1-2
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    1 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

    2 Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.

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    10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

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    14 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

    15 Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

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    17 Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

  • Jer 40:3
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    3 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke: because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

  • Isa 14:4
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    4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

  • Ezek 19:8
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    8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

  • Jer 51:7-8
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    7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

    8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

  • Jer 50:18
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    18 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

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    24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?

  • Jer 51:32-34
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    32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

    33 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

    34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

  • Ezek 21:24
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    24 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.

  • Jer 51:29
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    29 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

  • Jer 51:44
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    44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

  • Jer 29:20
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    20 Hear therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

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    54 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

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    18 Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings.

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    4 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

  • Jer 51:56
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    56 for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

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    11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

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    5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.