Jeremiah 51:30

World English Bible (2000)

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

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  • Nah 3:13 : 13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
  • Lam 2:9 : 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
  • Isa 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will melt. 8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
  • Isa 19:16 : 16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Armies, which he shakes over them.
  • Jer 50:36-37 : 36 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. 37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
  • Ps 76:5 : 5 Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
  • Isa 45:1-2 : 1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
  • Amos 1:5 : 5 I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh.
  • Rev 18:10 : 10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'
  • Jer 48:41 : 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
  • Ps 107:16 : 16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.
  • Ps 147:13 : 13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.
  • Jer 51:32 : 32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
  • 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.

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  • Jer 51:31-33
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    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.

  • Jer 51:53-58
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    53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.

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

    55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

    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.

    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.

    58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

  • Jer 50:30
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    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.

  • Jer 50:42-43
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    42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

    43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Jer 51:29
    75%

    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.

  • Nah 3:13
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    13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

  • Jer 50:15
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    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 50:22-23
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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!

  • Isa 3:25-26
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    25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

    26 Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

  • Jer 51:3-4
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    3 Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

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

  • Jer 51:47
    72%

    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 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!

  • Jer 50:35-37
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    35 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

    36 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

    37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

  • Jer 48:41
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    41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

  • Jer 51:12
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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.

  • Jer 51:37-38
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    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.

  • 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.

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

  • Jer 50:13
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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.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24 We have heard its report; our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • 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 46:5
    71%

    5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 51:64
    71%

    64 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

  • Jer 50:25-26
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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.

    26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

  • Isa 21:9
    70%

    9 Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

  • Ezek 30:7
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    7 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

  • Jer 51:43-44
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    43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.

    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 37:10
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    10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

  • Jer 49:26
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    26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Jer 52:14
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    14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

  • Nah 3:10
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    10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

  • Isa 13:16
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    16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

  • Nah 2:10
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    10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.